If boxing were to have countless rounds until someone gets stopped

This is purely a stamina issue. Runners and counterpunchers would dominate. Any boxer who is exhausted and barely able to come to the mark can be hurt and knocked down. The knockout as we know it only really started to enter boxing after the 15 round limit was introduced and gloves came in. If we took away round limits, we'd go back to the attritional fights of the 1800s, where people broke their hands all the time.

Truth be told, the excitement would diminish drastically. Slick fighters would hop on the old bike and wait for their opponent to punch themselves out. If the fighter pressing the action is smart, he'd take his foot off the pedal when he senses fatigue setting in. You need a finite amount of rounds to place pressure on fighters to actually win them.

I should add Bradley, he doesn't have KO power but he can outlast almost anyone and his opponents will be exhausted. If the Ruslan fight had one more round in it, Timothy Gasly would probably have gotten stopped.

It would be a dream come true if this ever happened... Fight to the death!!!! I got that medieval type of humor/entertainment ideals. Would be sick. I wish I could time travel back to the days where gladiators would fight lions at the coliseums. I love that type of savage ****.

Why not start a topic about what boxer would win if he came into the ring with a baseball bat? Or who would win if eye gouging was legal?

The longest uninterrupted heavyweight championship bout was between James Burke "The Deaf Un" and Simon Byrne, it lasted into the 99th round, on May 30th 1833. Byrne took so much punishment he died as a result of the fight. James Burke was exonerated and claimed the heavyweight championship. Irishman Simon Byrne was himself responsible for a ring death a couple years earlier on June 2nd, 1830 by beating Sandy McKay in 47 rounds, and beat a manslaughter charge for that result, so I guess what goes around comes around. The longest Pro fight was an 1893 lightweight match between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke that went 111 rounds was actually for a vacated title, and both Bowen & Burke quit, so that fight was actually a draw, with no successor to retired champion Jack MCAuliffe's vacated title. In 1845 American Charles Freeman took on Englishman William "The Tipton Slasher" Perry of the heavyweight title in England. The bout went into the 70th round until the referee called a halt to the contest on account of the gathering darkness and ordered the fight to continue the next day. Perry delayed the resumption of the fight for two weeks, but eventually they continued. After 37 more rounds the referee disqualified Perry and declared Freeman champ, but Freeman died a short time later of tuberculosis Oct 18th, so technically that one went 107 and topped the other heavyweight championship fight by 8 rounds. During the mid 1800's the part of American history that spawned the movie "Gangs of NewYork", boxing and politics in America went hand in hand. American Tom Hyer went 101 rounds with George "Country McCluskey" McChester on Sept. 9th, 1841 at Caldwell's Landing NY, but it was a non-title match. :boxing:

He was being sarcastic I have read some outrageous stuff on this board so I can not tell sometimes.

Judah is notorious for fading in later rounds. Except in the Garcia fight he was lazy in the beginning and saved his energy for the later rounds. He was being sarcastic

If this happened guys who were extremely heavy handed with good chins would be the guys who would be on top. Pacquiao Maidana Chavez Sr. Maybe Chavez Jr. Carl Froch The jury is still out on someone like Keith Thurman. being heavy handed definitely helps. But guys like Bradley and Algieri will still be energized when their opponents gas out and that is when they can take advantage.

http://i58.tinypic.com/2uivuaw.jpg Judah is notorious for fading in later rounds. Except in the Garcia fight he was lazy in the beginning and saved his energy for the later rounds.

If this happened guys who were extremely heavy handed with good chins would be the guys who would be on top. Pacquiao Maidana Chavez Sr. Maybe Chavez Jr. Carl Froch The jury is still out on someone like Keith Thurman.

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Current boxers- Froch and Mattyhsse would be absolute terrors in the ring.

http://i58.tinypic.com/2uivuaw.jpg

You would have allot of dead and disabled boxers. The sports brutal enough.

Fighters who look fresh after 12 rounds of boxing. Margarito shouldn't be on the list. The Pacquiao would have stopped him, Cotto would have stopped him, and Mosley did stop him inside of 12; it's not certain that he would have stopped Paul Williams; guys like

I should add Bradley, he doesn't have KO power but he can outlast almost anyone and his opponents will be exhausted.

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