How many would favour making boxing 15 round fights again?

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will never be again

 

It depends really. The Mancini fight was in 82.
I heard that part of the issue with those final 3 rounds is:
The risk of dehydration
or
Boxers being too tired to adequately defend themselves

But boxing no longer has same day weigh-ins, so would the risk of dehydration be reduced?

I think like @Hanz Cholo says we aren't ever going back, but I wouldn't be against the idea for title fights and final eliminators only: the results would be more definitive.

 

Very tragic. Both Kim's mom and the ref of the fight committed suicide in 1983. Oops, commented before watching the video.

 

I don’t see why we would want that honestly. Boxing’s popularity has been dwindling for a while now and making the fights longer and therefore a bit more inaccessible for those with shorter attention spans seems counter intuitive. I think ProBox has the right idea with making their main events 10 rounders or sometimes 8 rounders. Nobody has the time to watch 15 rounders anymore.

 

Neither here nor there really, as someone who's never watched a live 15 round fight I'm ok with keeping it how it is and don't see why there'd be any rush/pressure to change it.

 

Big no from me

 

While I would not be against 15 rounds, I also would be ok with 13 rounds. I would like to see an odd number of rounds just to have a better chance of not ending up with a draw result.

 

Maybe ok with HW because they don't drain to get down in weight, but with boxers from Cruiser on down straining to dehydrate then drink back up then 15 might be a bridge too far, unless the weighing the day of the fight.

 

No from me; undoubtedly it would make for more entertaining fights, but at a great human cost to boxers involved. Twelve rounds is fine.

 

Imagine Lawrence Okolie in a 15 round fight!?

No thank you

 

Yes but with the caveat they cut rounds 40 seconds so the fight isn't actually getting longer.

The main advantage of 15 rounders would be more accurate scoring as less rounds means theres less margin for error. With 12 rounds more fights go the distance and the ones that do are more likely to be close and every individual mistake a judge makes matters more. A lot of the high profile robberys in recent decades can be attributed to the change from 15 to 12. How many 15 round decisions have you strongly disagreed with even if they were close? Now compare that to 12 rounders.


A lot of the high profile robberys in recent decades can be attributed to the change from 15 to 12. How many 15 round decisions have you strongly disagreed with?

Maybe this would make boxing a little safer as you'd think less fight time would make multi knockdown rounds less likely.

This would be for title fights only obviously.

 

Why not 13 rounds so there is no draw in the 10-9 system (aside from wide rounds and LDs)

 

Yes, go back to 15 round title fights with day of fight weigh in's. Personally I think day of fight weigh in's would have a bigger impact than 3 extra rounds in a title fight. Except for heavyweights, I seriously doubt there's many heavy's today who could fight a fast paced 15 rounder.