Do you prefer 15 rounders or 12 rounders?

That's true but the smaller guys have better stamina than the bigger guys and most of them can go 15 rounds without problems, i don't want the 15 rounders back but if at all only the smaller guys should fight 15 rounds.

 

As a spectator, i often find that we have way too many 12 and 10 round bouts. (why the **** were Miller-Duhaupas and Wach 12 rounders?)
But as a fan, i often want even longer fights.

 

We all know what most of us prefer but what do today's active boxers think?

Do they prefer 12 or 15?

 

Imagine watching Hughie Fury over 15 rounds.

Noooooooo.

 

my minds evolved to 12 rounds now, I cannot fathom going back.

 

15 used to separate the elite from the mere world class.

 

I can barely handle 9 nevermind 12 or — wait, what are we talking about?

 

I've seen too many fights that 3 more rounds were needed to resolve it. Plus there's a big difference in the stamina needed for 15.

 

The Romainian lads up the road from me who work in the chicken factory do this after getting tanked on a Friday night
Its alright but after you have seen a few fights it gets predictable and some blokes in cars who claimed to be Police officers keep coming and breaking it up all . This pisses me off because this is the only entertainment I get

 

Frazier wins the thrilla in Manilla over 12. Duran beats Hagler through 12. Hearns beats Leonard through 12 in their 1st fight. Arguello may have gotten a decision over Pryor. Hagler could have stopped a rapidly fading Leonard with 3 more rounds.

 

You are looking at cards for scheduled 15 round fights. That changes the whole fight early.. It isn't like they would schedule it for 15 and stop it at 12 and say, ok what are the scores. Hagler and Duran were fighting a very technical but not exciting fight and Hagler expected differently. He knew he had to pour it on and he did and won the rounds. Had it been a 12 round fight, he would have done that sooner. Or Leonard vs. Hearns would have poured it on sooner, although in that fight I think Hearns still wins 12 since I don't think it was Ray that decided that but Hearns getting tired in round 13.

 

I'll tell ya this much, in Manilla Ali couldn't have beaten Joe in 12 that night with a hammer, Joe literally had to gas out for Ali to win.

 

I know rounds can be scored even and others 10-8, or 10-7 etc but as a matter of simple logic an uneven number of rounds would surely have been a better solution when dropping from 15. Why didn't it change to 13?

 

Same with Hearns, but think if you added 3 more rounds to 15 or even five and made it 20 rounds. It would stop being about skill and start being about stamina. I see your point, I just believe that 12 is enough to see who the winner is.. All this started with 12 rounds I think with the death of Kim when he lost to Mancini in 1982.. I think that was the start of reassessing the 15 round distance. I could be wrong. I don't know for sure.. I actually have on tape the last scheduled 15 round fight which was McGirt vs. Howard Davis. And it would change some big events. I mean look how even seconds mattered with Chavez vs. Taylor, which I think was stopped fairly. Steele is not timekeeper. You would have different results. And it would change history. But at the same time, guys today don't train for 15 rounds. So that would be different. Most guys fighting now were not born the last time the bell to a 15th round was rung.