i care about people not having brain damage. 12.
Why in the world are you posting on a boxing forum???
That's wouldn't work as you think. If only some fights are 15 rounders they will become totally different fights. Some fighters would ONLY win those 15 rounders and lose the normal 12 rounders for instance due to pace and conditioning factors. You would see someone really good getting a shot at the ring tittle and then losing it to a Margarito type of fighter. how good would that be for boxing? Either make all championship fights 15 rounders or leave them be 12 rounds. I think 12 is enough.
Having a single champion in each weight division would be absolutely fantastic for boxing. By allowing only one organization to hold 15 round title fights, their champions would become legitimized as THE champ in the public eye. The result would be a huge step forward for the sport.
I agree with Tengoshi-15 rounders for the Ring belt holder.
Of all the ring deaths that took place over the past 50 years only a few happened between rounds 13-15. The primary reason fights were cut to 12 rounds was because 12 rounders fit neatly into a one hour time slot back when boxing used to be on Network TV.
On the other hand jreckoning brings up a very good point. 15 rounds of Ruiz vs anyone would make me shoot myself in the face.
The only shot Peter has is if Toney comes into the fight fat and out of shape while he comes in in tremendous shape. Even then Sam will have to dictate a fast pace and hope for a late rounds stoppage, something easier said than done against a counter-punching defensive wizard like James.
Toney by UD.
omg that gif is awesome, btw who are the guys on your avatar??? that knock down is awesome :P
That's Vinny Pazienza knocking out Melvin Paul back in 1985.
I miss 15 rounders.
It'd be nice if the athletic commissions decided to allow just one of the sanctioning bodies to go back to holding 15 round championship fights.
That belt would eventually become THE BELT to hold and we could do away with this 4-belts per weight division bullshit.
Pavlik-Abraham would be an awesome fight.
Pavlik's activity would force Abraham to be much less economical with his punches. He'd get caught more often but the guy is such a tough son-of-a-bitch that it would take a LOT for Pavlik to KO him.
Just by hanging around Abraham would get his own shots in and he could end up stopping Kelly.
Don't know who I'd go with as it's such a close fight but I sure would love to see it.
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in the past two years, HBO, Showtime, and ESPN INCREASED their number of annual shows. Hell HBO had to add a second broadcast team for BAD.
Last year was HBO's second most successful year in PPV and this year may break their all time record depending on how tonight's fight did.
Live boxing is usually on five nights a week in the U.S.
Ths sport is even more popular in other parts of the world such as the Phillipines, Japan and Europe.
But none of this matters. The whole 'Boxing is dying', and 'Can this be the fight that saves Boxing' thing has been going on for decades. It's a big part of Boxing's schtick and always has been.
What has changed is that Boxing has become a niche sport since it was driven off ABC, CBS and NBC in the 80's. At that point it moved to cable and has been surviving quite nicely ever since as a niche sport.
The last half of 07 was spectacular. I hope we can duplicate some of these awesome matchups next year.
Matt Hughes is one of the UFC's best fighters. Here he is cageside last night, but instead of watching the action in the cage he was checking out Hatton-Mayweather on TV.
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Valero is one of the HARDEST punchers at 130. Everyone he faces gets rocked several times during the fights, including Mosquera who'se world class. To say he has NO shot against Pacquiao, Guzman etc. is ignorant because he can always get lucky and land a bomb.
That said I do agree that guys like Guzman/Pacquiao etc. would be very difficult for Valero to beat but he most certainly has a punchers chance. And who knows, if he can suck Manny into a brawl he might be able to KO him.
Personally I'd prefer to see him matched up against Pacquiao as that could potentially be Hagler/Hearns type war.
Oh and Kball you are quite correct about Victor Oganov. His 25-0, 25 KO record was built against scrubs and he was sorely exposed the moment he stepped up against Zuniga.
Doug Fischer of Maxboxing is someone who'se opinion I respect. He's spent a significant amount of time watching Valero's career (sparring/early fights etc.) and began heaping praise on Edwin early in his career. Here's what he wrote about Valero in the summer of 06
"Phenoms don’t come around very often and when you see them, you recognize them as being a cut above the rest – instantly.
Seeing Valero train in Joe Hernandez’s tiny gym in Vernon when the southpaw KO artist first arrived to Southern California from Venezuela in late June of 2003 reminded me of watching Shane Mosley workout at the L.A. Boxing Club in the mid-to-late ‘90s. He was a relentless but precise machine during the floor exercises and bag work and a calculating animal in the ring.
Seeing Valero fight at the Irvine Marriott and the Maywood Activity Center in 2003 was reminiscent of witnessing Diego Corrales crush tough journeymen at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in ’98.
It wasn’t just the hand speed, footwork, technique and immense physical strength that, like Mosley, Valero possessed. It wasn’t the one-punch knockout power that, like Corrales, he carried in both hands. It was something in Valero’s eyes – the same burning intensity I saw in the eyes of Mosley and Corrales years ago – that told me, his opponents, and the rest of the world: “I will not be denied”."
So far the guy's been extremely impressive, owns a World Title and is a hell of a lot of fun to watch.
Again, I just hope they match him with Pacquiao instread of Guzman.