What fights do you think would of had a different outcome? I'm thinking Hagler would of beat SRL. I could be wrong Hagler still would of had to win the last 3 rounds or score a knockout.
That depends. How many championship fights have been scheduled for less than 15 rounds over the last 25 years? It's easier to speculate about which champions over the last quarter century would still be identified as ATGs. As soon as the first WBC 12 round title fights went the scheduled limit, it became instantly apparent that professional boxing had succeeded in neutering itself. The WBA and IBF could have driven the WBC out of existence by retaining the true championship limit, but Sulamain, Arum, King, and Mendoza got together for a gay Caligulan orgy, and unfortunately, remembered to bring AIDS preventing condoms to their squalid dip**** festival. (This party was probably inspired by Soft Cell's video performance of Tainted Love. The timing's about right!)
The Heavyweight division wouldn't be in the pathetic state it is in now! The fighters would actually have to get into halfway decent shape & not grope & hang onto eachother for twelve boring rounds.
Hopkins would have beaten Taylor - that one sticks out from recent times. I agree about the heavyweights being better of under 15 rounds. The extra three right at the most difficult time in the fight might have forced improvement in the division of the back of the greater athletetcisim required. You can't get into the ring in the sort of nick that these boys do with those three tagged on and expect to win. Briggs has shown it can be done over 12 ish in poor shape.
Yup, which is why they need to bring it back. So many so called championship fights would have had a totally different outcome if they were 15 rounds, and a lot of 15 rounders would have had different outcomes if they were only 12 rounds. 15 is the true championhsip, and for these real mega fight legit #1 vs. #2 type fights, they should be 15.
Ramirez would have rallied from behind to win his first match with Rosario (who may not have even reached the final bell the way he was fading), and Edwin would not be in Canastota today.
Ramirez would have beaten (a tiring) Whitaker more decisively than he did @ both of their fights and Whitaker would have had 2 look 4 a weaker titlist .
Well usually I figure the fighters would pace themselves differently, knowing it was a 15 round fight. I do wonder though about a fight like Trinidad-DLH. DLH said he was fatigued and his "legs were shaky". Im sure DLH trained hard, but he used a lot of movement and he was a rather tense fighter, which takes up energy. Oscar had the right gameplan to use his superior footwork and movement, but it took up energy. There's other cases where a guy seems exhausted at the end of 12, Bruno-McCall and Holyfield-Bowe 2. Bruno-McCall was already fought at a snail's pace, and Frank was dead tired in the 12th. Bowe certainly had more in the tank in the 12th than Holyfield and seemed to hurt him in that round. Wonder how those fights would've gone if they'd been 15
