Boxing Rules you want to see changed...!!!

When a fighter is down at end of round, the bell should go ahead and ring DURING the count, not after it ends.

 

10-point must system.

Need 5 judges. Drop highest and lowest variance in scores. Keep 3.

Not really rules but related to boxing.

Compubox. Stupid stats from a button pusher literally.

National anthems. Do them before the main event. F'ing annoying.

 

Points taken immediately for rabbit punching. Three and the fight is over. Some guys will duck into a rabbit punch or rabbit punch when clinching and refs have to recognize that. Take points away right away, no warning.

 

Have always had mixed feelings about the standing 8 count.

The one I feel strongly about is the 3 knock down rule.

 

Doesn't one organization have a rule that says if a fighter falls back down after standing up from a knockdown the fight is automatically stopped. Jacobs-Quillin and Tsyzu-Judah come to mind. Balance shots take your legs from you for a few seconds. I don't feel like that ruling is protecting the fighters in the way it was intended. They should have got the full count to try and recover.

 

That would be taking away from their one minute rest.

 

The reason for that is so as not to influence the referee's assessment as whether to stop the fight. A classic example is the Tua Cameron fight when Cameron when down badly at the end of the 1st. The dumb ass female timekeeper rang the bell during the count and this influenced ref Mctavish to allow the fight to continue which caused Cameron to take unnecessary punishment in the 2 nd rd before the fight was quickly stopped. The standing 8 count should be left in the amateurs. It has long been thought to prolong a beating rather than to help a stricken fighter. Most of the talk here is about rule enforcement rather than rule change and I would go along with most of it. The ''decision'' is a boxing tradition that as flawed as it is should not be changed. What needs to be changed is incompetent judges. The only change I would like to see is the scoring of kd's. This has long been a grey area that should not be. Currently if you score a kd you win 10-8 regardless of what happens in the rest of the rd. The WBC have a guideline of being able to pull back 1 point if you go down but dominate the rd otherwise. If you win a rd you get 10-9. If you win a rd and score a kd you win by 10-8. That is a mathematical equation that tells you that the kd is worth 1 pt. Decades of ongoing nonsense could be eliminated by simple mathematics. Just take one pt off for each kd. Eg if I win a rd but make a trip to the canvas I have won the rd 10-9 but lost a point for the kd so the score would be 9-9. It should simply be a matter of scoring the rd in the normal way and deducting a pt for each kd.

 

I've kind of liked the standing 8 because sometimes it can stop a fight being ended prematurely. But it can also be used when completely not necessary. Idk it's situational.

 

I would very much agree if that was done in the final round only. It would totally have prevented all the fuzz about Bute vs Andrade 1 for example.

Also: Never more as one official from the same nationality as a boxer in international world titlefights.
Veto rights for both boxers when officials are appointed.
Always overturning fights if rules turn out to be broken, or video evidence clearly shows knockouts were due to lowblows or headbutts for instance.