What fight was the last 15 rounder in history?

Jorge Paez-Calvin Grove was the last 15 round title fight I believe but I don't know what the last official fight was.

 

There were one or two all the way though to the mid 90s...

My memory will come back in a minute, and I will telly you who it involved.

A couple of IBO title fights from 1993 were 15 rounders (Pazienza/Sherry and Boyle/Strum)

But I am sure there are some even later.

 

I think one of the last was a exhibition in Japan? in 1997. can't remember no more details though sorry.

 

last one i remember was jose flores taking a 15 round decision over eric holland. that was like in 97 or 98 i think.

before that buck smith and harold brazier went 15.

 

That was the match I was trying to think of, I believe it was the final one (June 1997)

Now when was the last 20 rounder?

 

The last title fight that was scheduled for 15 was McGrit-Davis...of course, it ended in the first round.

 

Flores/Holland was for the WBB title some 8 years after McGirt...

 

A well regarded organization if ever there was one...

 

Oh yes, right up there with..... the IBF

 

My 1957 Ring Record Book and Boxing Encylopedia says the last 20 rounder to go the distance was Max Baer W 20 King Levinski, Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1932.

The most recent one scheduled for 20 rounds up to that time was Bobby Woods KO 15 Henry Davis, Boise, Idaho, June 9, 1954. (That is if Fleischer's information is accurate.)

 

I believe (according to the Guinness Book of Records) there is one from the early 70s, I will look it up.

 

Yeah i heard it involved Paz.

 

Please do that. This would be interesting to know for sure.

In the early 1980's, Pat O'Grady tried to engineer a 20 rounder for his newly formed vacant WAA (or what "Flash" Gordon called, "The WA-O'Grady") HW Title between Monte Masters and Tony Fuliangi, but it was disallowed, and they competed for it in a scheduled 15 rounder. (This was won by Masters in 14 rounds, a title he was stripped of for divorcing O'Grady's daughter! Oh well. At least Pat had a "good" reason for doing it, not like the convoluted rationalizations the other governing bodies cite for some of their actions!:nut)