Can today's fighters last 15 rounds?

The thing is Byrd has the stamina he has and can go 15 rounds for one good reason, he is not that big. The fighters of today are to big and heavy, how many of the good 15 round fights has included people above 220lbs? Todays heavy contenders are like 240-250 that way to much to drag for 15 rounds.

if they woud prepear for 15 rounds they coud

I dont see any of the big boys doing it exept byrd and maybe ruiz is capable og hugging for 15 rounds.

EYE8 its MUCH harder then you think to pace yourself. 9 rounds is a lotta time. Klitschko, McCline, Whitaker, Rahman etc. all could not go 15 rds with getting either extreamly fatigued or KO'd . . .

Cory Spinks-Always keep his cool and always in cruise mode, I think he might be able to last the whole 15 due to him being calm a lot and dictating a decent pace. Firstly if that were the case Zab would have Koed spinks and secondly fighters train for 12 and fight 12 if it were 15 they would train for that many rounds

The Toney we saw against Jirov could have easily gone 15. Hopkins and Morales are obvious choices. Winky could do it too.

It general, it's alot harder on the super heavies to go long rounds. In fact, I can't think of any big guy who looked reasonably fresh after 10 (well, maybe Ibeabuchi, Bowe?). Most of the big guys (Klits, Lewis, McCline, Grant, etc.) look dog tired after 5 or 6...

well ok whatever...but he's not in upper class get me...along with hopkins and morales OK if thats what you think, but I have seen pac went it to wars and maintained his stamina the whole fight, so I am sure his up there close enough with the guys you mentioned...

well ok whatever...but he's not in upper class get me...along with hopkins and morales

The point here Pac is 15 rounder fighter, just like JMM & EM...

the thing is pac styles gets figured out and against a boxer who can hit like morales...say in 15 round fight wil have more then enough time to ko him...but in general pac has okay stamina but not in top 3 for sure...winky is sorry for leaving him out I agree with you that for a boxer that can hit like EM he will have more chances to KO Pac in 15 rounds, but that does not mean Pac can not last or be competitive in 15 rounds and also have more chances to KO the other guy...

the thing is pac styles gets figured out and against a boxer who can hit like morales...say in 15 round fight wil have more then enough time to ko him...but in general pac has okay stamina but not in top 3 for sure...winky is sorry for leaving him out

I agree with most of you guys call on who can go 15 competitive rounds specially EM & JMM, but would disagree to some that cut the PacMan out, aside from the left straight & speed, Stamina is Pac's greatest assets...

tito/pac/dlh/toney/winky/etc... wouldnt make it ed After the 11th round stoppage of Marco Antonio Barrera by the PacMan, the HBO's commentators were so impressed by the unrelenting attack that one of them commented that Pac "could have gone 20 rounds tonight".

lets truly be honest any fighter can go 15 rounds when there were 15rounds b4 many guys went the distance didnt mean they were great or not great now if the question is how many of todays top guys can fight a hard 15rounds then id have to agree with most of you on morales, hopkins, pacquiao, and some of the others

Byrd's the only noteable heavyweight that could possibly do it. Try to think of anyone else... Most of the top-name lighter weights can - Morales Hopkins Spinks JMM maybe Castillo

Manny Pacquiao of course.

the thing is if fighters trained and prepared for 15 round i think most could do it. right now they train for 12 and they give it all they got so by twelve they are tired

dude a in shape mayorga and margarito at 147 lasted hella long..rememer mayorga was not at his wieght when he faced tito...these 2 have good stamina though

Any heavy that can go 12 rds can go 15. They would justt pace themselves for three more rds! Jezuz could you imagine3 more rds of Ruiz's homo huggin! :mad: