15 Round Championships

[cple]

Tell him father

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That's one incident. In fact, that's the only major fight i can remember where a fighter was killed from a bout that lasted longer than 12 round.

Sam Baroudi died after his fight with Ezzard Charles which lasted 10 rounds.

Jimmy Doyle died after his fight with Ray Robinson which lasted just over 8 rounds (he couldn't come out for the ninth).

Why not reduce bouts to 5 rounds? How can you determine a healthy length of a bout? God forbid, but it could happen in any round. Our best ways of preventing a ring death is a good ref and caring trainers who know their fighter's limit.

[{BrownBomber}]

That's one incident. In fact, that's the only major fight i can remember where a fighter was killed from a bout that lasted longer than 12 round.

Sam Baroudi died after his fight with Ezzard Charles which lasted 10 rounds.

Jimmy Doyle died after his fight with Ray Robinson which lasted just over 8 rounds (he couldn't come out for the ninth).

Why not reduce bouts to 5 rounds? How can you determine a healthy length of a bout? God forbid, but it could happen in any round. Our best ways of preventing a ring death is a good ref and caring trainers who know their fighter's limit.

VERY TRUE IT COULD HAPPEN IN ONE ROUND. I THINK 12 ROUNDS IS FAIR,CAN U IMAGINE CHAVEZ-TAYLOR 1, GO 15 ROUNDS. THAT OUTCOME WOULD OF BEEN TRAGIC.

[Memorex]

VERY TRUE IT COULD HAPPEN IN ONE ROUND. I THINK 12 ROUNDS IS FAIR,CAN U IMAGINE CHAVEZ-TAYLOR 1, GO 15 ROUNDS. THAT OUTCOME WOULD OF BEEN TRAGIC.

yea 1 more round taylor would have gotten hurt worse than he is right now

[m00ks]

Well, I would like it to stay at 12.

A fighter can manhandle a fighter for 12 rounds, imagine 15?!?

Also, I see fighters sucking it up, even though they are dead exhausted, in the 12th. Would they actually last 15 rounds now a dayz?

Last point,I don't know if teh fights would be as exciting in 15 as 12. Would the fighters preserve themselves early in the rounds?

I think 12 rounds is perfect and competitive.

[bandito]

you could bring back 15 rounders, but then there would be alot of boring fights. 12 is good enough. just cuz it's 15 doesn't mean more ko's!!

[MetalVomit]

yea 1 more round taylor would have gotten hurt worse than he is right now

HEALTH HEALTH HEALTH. as a fan, sure I would like 15 round championship bouts, but with health in mind, I am ok with twelvers.

[cple]

If Chavez-Taylor I had gone 15 rounds, it wouldn't matter. He was stopped in the 12th, and rightfully so.

[Fat Shamz]

Bring back 15 rounders...Any half azzed conditioned fighter can go 12.. 15 would weed out all the pretenders, leaving only the REAL champions. Imagine if Ali - Frazier 1 was only 12 rounds. Think of all the great fights we as fans would have been cheated out of. And all the great ones were missing now. Dramatic comebacks in the 13th or 14th round. Stunning one punch ko's in the 15th. Imagine Holyfield-Foreman 15 rounds.. Gatti - Ward...etc.

I would rather a boxer live longer then be entertained by an extra 9 minutes of boxing.

[Great]

That's one incident. In fact, that's the only major fight i can remember where a fighter was killed from a bout that lasted longer than 12 round.

Sam Baroudi died after his fight with Ezzard Charles which lasted 10 rounds.

Jimmy Doyle died after his fight with Ray Robinson which lasted just over 8 rounds (he couldn't come out for the ninth).

Why not reduce bouts to 5 rounds? How can you determine a healthy length of a bout? God forbid, but it could happen in any round. Our best ways of preventing a ring death is a good ref and caring trainers who know their fighter's limit.

During struggle the boxer receives punches. There is an accumulation of effect from them. If damage (a wall of a vessel...) has achieved critical point, probability of reception of a fatal trauma (haemorrhage in a brain) the biggest. During three additional rounds the boxer can take a lot of punches and as Kim, career finish by tragedy. If not three last rounds, damage of a vessel has passed (if it was to 12 round - may be not) after fight, and all would be probably ок. Certainly, 12 roundes instead of 15 do not guarantee absence of traumas and death, but it undoubtedly will reduce amount of serious damages in a ring.
Annually in a ring some boxers die. Receive bad traumas even more. It is not necessary to increase this statistics. 12 roundes it is normal.

[ispayder]

A careful study was made by all the sanctioning bodies before championship fights were reduced from fifteen to twelve rounds. I am sure there is a rational explanation to this. Whatever that reason/s is/are, it must have been a very compelling reason or reasons for they all agree that twelve rounds are enough.