If you could change one rule about boxing what would it be?

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  1. Mike_b

    Mike_b Well-Known Member Full Member

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    To me it would be that Ryan Garcia style defense where he turns his back on his opponent while exposing his ribs, let the boxer respond by being able to swing at the open portions of his exposed back! Instead of telling him to stop throwing body shots at his kidney.
     
  2. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I would make title fights 15 rounds and change the rounds to 2 minutes and 24 seconds. Robberys would go away.
     
  3. Mike_b

    Mike_b Well-Known Member Full Member

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    One rule I would never petition for would be "bring back 15 rounders" lol. Because too many times a boxer died while going the full 15. See Ray mancini vs Duk Koo Kim. Don't get me wrong, it would be a privilege to watch Manny Pacquiao and el terrible Erik Morales go a full 15 in their first fight, as it was just heating up in the 12th round as Erik came out of the corner swinging southpaw! Its just that too many times guys succumbed to the death toll of 15 rounders.
     
  4. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I changed the time of the rounds so it'd be the same fight time as a 12 rounder. They wouldn't be fighting longer we'd just be dividing that time into 3 more frames.

    The problem with 12 rounders is how its more likely to yield a non decisive outcome not that fighters aren't fighting enough. Not only is it 3 rounds shorter than 15 its an even number. If 13 wasn't seen by much of the West as cursed changing it to 13 would work to.

    People have shorter attention spans today so the 2.24 works better for that reason to.

    Could also make it an even 2.20 and fights would be a minute shorter overall.
     
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  5. Mike_b

    Mike_b Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Ah!!! Very very clever on your part! Thanks for explaining that!
     
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  6. vargasfan1985

    vargasfan1985 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No more 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 round fights

    add a round, you’ll get less draws, odd rounds > even ones
     
  7. vargasfan1985

    vargasfan1985 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    2:24 is such a bizarre idea
     
  8. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Thats the amount of time that keeps title fights exactly the same duration at 15 rounds as they are now at 12. We could do 2.20 in the name of it looking nice and even.
     
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  9. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Strict enforcement of rules. Right now so much depends on how permissive the ref is.
     
  10. Mike Cannon

    Mike Cannon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hi Guys.
    Any and all judges that are out of step with their 2 counterparts, should have to resit the fight in front of their peers to explain their scoring, if in the feelings of said peers the scoring is way out of sync, the judge should be demoted on the spot, and have a marker aside their name, and be monitored for the next five fights, if the judge is still way out, then dismissal should be mandatory.
    stay safe guys, chat soon.
    Mike.
     
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  11. kirk

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    Change to mma gloves.

    BK boxing has shown me how much things change when you take the gloves off... and how much of boxings hierarchy is an illusion created by the gloves.

    And while I wouldnt want boxing to go straight BK, due to it probably effecting longevity of the fighters careers, Id be in favor of reducing glove size down to mma size at least.

    I think it would lead to more stoppages, and would favor offensive fighters more.
     
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  12. AdamT

    AdamT Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Go back to 8 divisions
    Be less lenient with clinching and take points and ultimately disqualify excessive clinchers
     
  13. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No brainer. Would prefer over my reform.
     
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    Round card girls at every fight. INCLUDING in Saudi. And they can't be wearing a nijab or hijab or whatever the hell they call those costumes.
     
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    tee_birch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I like it
     
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