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

Yeah, I never understood that.

 

I'm with those who argue for stronger penalties for excessive clinching. It's very obvious when a fighter is actively trying to stymie the other through holding and it needs to be aggressively policed before it becomes out of hand. No token warnings near the end of the eleventh round when all the momentum of the other fighter has already been sucked out of him. Very simple to enforce. If a fighter clinches more than three times in a row in a round give them a warning. If it's unclear who's initiating the clinching give both fighters a warning. If the fighter is clinching but working inside the clinch give them a warning to fight cleanly. There's no reason any fighter should be clinching unless they're hurt.

 

1 more round.

 

Gonna get a hell of a lot more home town decisions if judges know the crowd will be aware of how they scored each round. Also, each judge would know what the other is scoring and may be influenced in their assessment of subsequent rounds. I agree with points 2-3. Point 4. would be great but money dictates that's never gonna happen...

 

The reason we don't do open scoring is so that the judges can't communicate with one another. They are supposed to be independent and objective. If one judge scored a round differently from the other two he might start scoring for the other fighter to make sure his card was more in line with the other two judges, or he might go the other way because he disagreed with them. Either way, open scoring would effect judge objectivity. Personally, I think we already see enough suspiciously similar score cards from judges to suspect some level of collusion, and I don't want to make it even easier.

And then you have the problem of the point fighters. Some guys, when they know they are up will sit on a lead, spoil, stall, and avoid action. This is not good either. You'd also see a lot more quitting when boxers feel that they are too far behind to win. Walters vs Lomachenko would become a normal affair. No, it's better to leave the outcome in doubt and let hope linger.

 

Alright, I'll throw a rule out there that I'd like to see but I don't think a lot of people will agree with. Bring back finishing fights. If you can't knock a guy out in half an hour, then you didn't beat him and it's a draw.

Another rule, I want to see enacted is "Knock that mother****er out or you don't get paid! If you can't knock somebody out don't waste my ****ing time. You're ****ing up the sport and nobody wants to see that ****." We could call it the Mayweather rule.

 

I like your intentions, but what will happen is that all the top fighters will go on can-crushing expeditions to make sure they get the KO!!!

 

These two, plus IMO:
- stronger enforcement of penalties for rabbit punching (IMO an intentional rabbit punch should be enforced as an immediate point deduction). That is the current rule of course, but in practice fighters are getting away with throwing a few rabbit punches in every second clinch.-
- mandatory fight night weigh-in with a specified rehydration limit for all world title fights. This would make boxing a healthier sport for its participants..

 

I would like promoters to incorporate performance based bonuses on big cards, so performance of the night, KO of the night and fight of the night like UFC do.

 

Same Day weigh in. Hell, last minute weigh in would be nice.

 

I don't think every knockdown should mean a 10-8 round. A guy can be winning a round easily and slip and fall and have some ref call it a knockdown and in instances like that I don't think a round should be 10-8. What I mean is, it shouldn't be mandatory if that makes sense

 

the scoring system.
It's so flawed it's not even funny that you score a round of complete domination 10-9 and then score another round that "could go either way but give it to him on ring generalship" 10-9 as well. Far to easy for judges to score the fight the way they want, and then come up with a decent explaination why.

 

I wish the participants in this thread took over boxing, it would be far better and maybe then boxing would return to its former glory in mainstream culture. Reading this thread makes me kind of angry at how stupid some of the existing rules are, I have always thought it odd how often a fighter can win a boxing match but at the same time lose the fight (if that makes any sense). Boxing really has nothing to lose by introducing some fresh ideas and everything to gain.

 

Toss out open scoring all together as I know it is rare but I was never a big fan.
Limit the rehydration that way we know or have a better clue as to who weighs what on fight night
Stop the excessive use of clinching....It should only be used when you are in danger of going down
One warning for rabbit punches then a point deduction

 

Boxing is so unlike any other pro-sport. It is still basically the wild, Wild West