15 rounds for championship fights.

That was a pretty fast concession :good

 

How so? Lewis probably just eeks into the top 10 HWs of all time.... suggesting any version of Hearns amounts to that is comical.

 

Someone mentioned that?

What's comical is putting a Welterweight ATG vs a top 10 Heavyweight :roll:

:yep

 

You're the one that wanted to puff him up to Lewis level, not me.

I merely said I would love to see Hearns take on Marciano.. Marciano was a tiny little dude compared to Lewis :hey

 

Masochist!

Then again, Hearns hit pretty big at 175 and if he catches Rocky coming in wellll

:smoke

 

Marciano would give him a grin and proceed to pound out any brains that may be left after the first shot. OK, Hearns might last for more than one.... the benefit of that is explained above

I know we're just joking aroung with this, but if Hearns would have been a little bigger, I think a fight between him and Marciano would have been a good one. I think it would all come down to Hearns' ablity to take heavy blows.. Rocky would have his hands full against a better boxer.

 

10 round main events...12 rounds for US titles....AND...15 rounds for WORLD titles!!! I miss those days!!!

 

Yes, it was the better format I think. Those final three rounds are a real acid test of courage, durability, stamina and in some cases a fighters relative ability to rally through adversity when behind in the fight, or hold out a bit further for the decision if they're ahead: amongst other things.

It's kind of like the mid point onwards of the fifth set in a tennis grand slam final, or a sudden death playoff in the US Masters, or needing a pass in the final few laps to win the MotoGp title. It seperates the true men from the boys and where mental fortitude is tested best. :good

 

15 rounds championship fights are something i think every top well conditioned fighter misses.. The last heavyweight scheduled 15 rounds title fight was Tyson v Biggs in Atlantic City NJ...

 

Sorry to bring it to you Lobotomy, but the mainstream fan - i.e. 90% of the guys that make boxing possible at a big level possible - don't give a flying **** about the distance being 15 or 12 rounds. I know that in your mind the difference from 15 to 12 coincided with the decline of boxing, Mike Tyson destroying your hero Holmes, etc etc, but not everyone lives in your reality.

 

Wasn't the Mancini v Kim fight in 1982, one of the motivating excuses/reasons for the reduction to 12 rounds at the time. As Kim had never fought past 12 rounds previously.

 

Yes, but it was the WBC who first cut the rounds down from 15 to 12. The Mancini-Kim fight was for the WBA lightweight title. But the fight woke up the WBC first, followed by the WBA, then eventually the IBF done away with 15 rounders. The last 15 rounder was between a Thailander and a fighter from Japan for the IBF jnr Flyweight title, August, 1988. Can't mind their names.

The championship rounds being shortned to two mins a round was considered, as was a longer rest period between rounds.

 

Thanks Robbi, I remember the manicini fight as one of, if not the motivator. Didn't remember / realize it was the wbc that moved first, do you which ouf the wbc tittles fist went to 12, curious.

Must be getting old here , hehe

 

I have no idea what was the first WBC title fight to switch from 15 rounds to 12 rounds. But Holmes' WBC title fight against Rodriquez was a 12 rounder and that was March, 1983. The Mancini-Kim fight was November, 1982, thus the WBC acted very swiftly to shorten the rounds.