Rule Changes in boxing

Bring back the standing 8 to boxing in championship bouts

15 rounds to 12, after bouts like Mancini/Kim. (glad)

15 is too much

 

This clinching **** has to go. There's more hugging and wrestle ****ing than in mma. It's boring and I think shows a lack of skill in fundamentals. We need a rule that after three clinches you get your first warning. Six gets you deducted a point. Ten and you are disqualified. Don't leave it up to the ref, because they obviously can't be trusted to apply their own sense. I've seen them allow sixty to eighty clinches from some fighters per fight. It's disgusting. That's why nobody can fight on the inside anymore. They just hold each other like lovers and wait for the ref to break them up.

I'm glad they cut back on the clinching and hip throws a century ago. This led to the faster and purer form of boxing with it's emphasis on jabbing and combinations. Some of those guys like Jack Johnson were all clinch punch, clinch punch, like they didn't know how to throw more than one punch at a time. Fights on the old footage look awful and slow. I say let wrestling be wrestling and let's stick to punching each other. It's more entertaining and distinguishes boxing from other combat sports like mma, or wrestling.

 

Ali would not have been successful without clinching. He clinched Frazier more than 150 times in a fight. Boxers should know how to fight out of a clinch. It's the fault of one who is being clinched if he can't find a way out of it.

 

-Yellow card (warning) for inactivity in the fight, and with each warning you have to give back 10% of your purse.
-Top ten boxers are only allowed to fight top ten ranked boxers, champ may only fight mandatories, no voluntary defense.
-No interruption by ref when in clinch (at least not that quick), holding is a different story and should be punished.

 

I wish there was some rule where we could somehow stop horrible and blatant robberies.

 

He would have been plenty successful without clinching. He was great at dancing and moving. It was only in his later career that his technique was boring and looked like ****. Besides, you are talking about the second fight. One and three are two of the best fights of all time because they are high action and little to no clinching.

Clinching is the fault of the guy who is being clinched? Are you re****ed? Besides, how are they supposed to fight out of a clinch if the ref keeps breaking them up? If you are allowed to clinch then the ref has to allow holding and hitting and can't separate the fighters. That's how they do it in mma and it's slow and boring. It's because of that aspect of the sport that maybe half as many punches are thrown in a round nearly twice as long.

 

Punish unsportsmanlike conduct.
Review/rewatch fights and take appropriate action if needed.
Referees/judges are only humans. I get that.
Example: Clements ''scoring'' 10-7 instead of 10-6 which was not changed after the fight to the 10-6 which it should have been. Re****ed and only in boxing.

That said, it's also backward that fighter A can give fighter B a thorough beating /schooling, heading to a 10-9 win for fighter A, yet a single punch from fighter B putting fighter A down get's fighter B a 10-8 score regardless of what fighter A did. So wrong.

 

change the scoring to 20 points a round, someone nicks a round its 20-19, someone wins more easily its 20-18 etc, 20-16 for a KD, should hopefully encourage more attacking boxing.

Think ref's should be stricter on clinching / spoiling but that's more the refs than the rules themselves. Same as the bodies actually enforcing their own rules on facing mandatories etc

think standing 8 counts should be bought in too, as many fights are stopped prematurely when an 8 count will give the ref time to see if the fight should be stopped or not.