15 rounds for championship fights.

I think a lot of the damage is due to massive weight loss and liquid intake. Drinking a lot of liquids in a small amount of time can add a lot of pressure on your brain. Getting punched in a waterlogged head can not be good at all. That's why most of the deaths are at the smaller weights.

 

Of course medicine has advanced, but I'm still more of a stats guy.

I'd like to see proof the change from 15 to 12 made an immediate, measurable, difference.

While I appreciate why the change was made, I don't think the change accomplished very much.

 

I don't know about that. I personally thought the fight should have been stopped. Either way, Ike was fading fast, as he was known to do, and most likely be too exhausted to last the distance.

 

The weigh-in on the same day as the fight. That gave fighters less time to re-hydrate themselves. However, bringing it back would mean fighters having to compete closer to their natural weight. Because losing 20lbs would be a massive risk if a fighter only had 7-8 hours to go before he stepped into the ring. Fighters having over 24 hours to get themselves together is a massive bonus.

 

Amen, 15 rounds for championship fights.

 

I don't think there should be same-day weight-ins. They are more dangerous than 15 rounders.

The only reason they have the same day weight-ins is becasue Gatti was 160 for the fight when he raped Joey Gamache at Junior Welterweight.

 

I think real champs can take it... only question is, do we have any real champs?

 

i'd like to see them go back to 15 rounds also. Also same day weight in. Don't know if there are reliable stats as to weather 15 rounders caused any more deaths in the ring.

 

Bring the old timers back from the dead.

 

Last weekend was the perfect example (and most recent) of the fact that championship fights need to be 15 rounds... We would have seen a more decisive winner. I still thought Calzaghe won, but things would be different if we had 15.

DelaHoya almost certainly would have been stopped or lost legitimately against Trinidad.
There are countless fights that would have really changed history as we know it if we had 15.

I ask myself why we don't go back to 15 every time there is a big fight on, or any championship fight.

15 rounds is the dividing line between fighters. These guys these days are not marked up, not tired, and look fresh after 12 rounds alot of the time... They can do 15.

 

I'd love to see Hearns against Marciano

How long would it take for Hearns to get on his "bike".... there would be no bike as Hearns would get starched by the first punch.

 

This is true. At the very least boxing can give us 15 roudn matches in title unification fights. Boxing is loisng fans to the MMA game. Giving us 15 rounds would bring a few fans back to boxing. At least that is what I think.

 

The reasonin' behind the 12 round championship fights is understood, but yea, i would like 15 rounds to return.

When i watched Holmes - Spinks 1, Spinks was boxing his awkward game really effectively, but when Ho calmes was gwttin' to him to the body in one of the later rounds (dont remember which 1), it was like - THUD, THUD! And it just looked like Mike was getting the energy sapped outta him by this much bigger guy, i was thinkin' (even though i knew the outcome!!), Spinks cant last any longer, this bigg guy is gunna take him out cos- this is 15 rounds!! Can he last?? But Spinks carried on and recouped and won it, went 15 rounds with the bigger, meaner guy and outhustled him. I really felt for Spinks during the last few rounds cos iy looked like he worked so hard for it.

What im sayin' is, when you watch boxers do 15, you feel like you're watchin' them do liife and death and you feel for them. Especuially in fights like Duran-Leonard 1.

13, 14, and 15 really are the championship rounds.

 

I don't know about today, but in the past, the really elite fighters used the 15 round limit, that is the 13th tru 15th as though it were part of their arsenal. Guys like Monzon, Griffith, Pedroza and Ali, these men were masters of going 15. They would coast a bit in the middle rounds and then accelerate in the last three, particularly Monzon, and finish strong, dealing out punishment to tired opponents.

 

Mendoza , if that angle was put forward to the guys that run boxing, it could very well get 15 to return.