What was the official reason for no more 15 round fights??

[Mizzou]

What happened? I don't know the history. Someone inform me.

[the330ballers]

i believe the mancini-kim fight had a lot to do with it.

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

i believe the mancini-kim fight had a lot to do with it.

I believe you are correct.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3107079

The whole thing turned into one big mess.

What happened on the sunny afternoon of Nov. 13, 1982, would change the lives of both fighters and the future of boxing. By the time it was over, Kim lay in a coma from which he would never awaken, dying five days later at the Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas.
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini was never Boom Boom again. Maybe one small boom but seldom boom boom and never, ever Boom Boom. Never the same package of aggressiveness he'd been. Those days were over.
Boxing was never the same either, with the WBC quickly deciding 15-round fights were too dangerous and cutting the championship limit to 12. Several years later the WBA and IBF would follow suit and by the time the WBO was formed in 1988, 12 rounds were the norm. Gone were what had been considered for so long "the championship distance" -- Rounds 13, 14 and 15. They had been judged the fatal rounds for Kim and the evidence had been presented on national television.

Duk Koo Kim was on a 12-fight winning streak when he met Ray Mancini, but many feel the Korean fighter wasn't fit to challenge the champion.
The peripheral damage rippled even wider, like the circles that spread from a pebble dropped into a pond. The referee, Richard Greene, would commit suicide several months later for reasons that remain unclear. Kim's mother would do the same four months after her son's death, swallowing a bottle of pesticide for reasons that were so painfully clear it made many people wonder if boxing was a sport or just an act of barbarism one could no longer justify in civilized society.

[Silencers]

It was for the safety of the fighters.

The WBC, which was not the fight's sanctioning organization, announced during its annual convention of 1982 that many rules concerning fighters' medical care before fights needed to be changed. One of the most significant was the WBC's reduction of title fights from fifteen rounds to twelve. The WBA and the IBF followed the WBC in 1987. When the WBO was formed in 1988, it immediately began operating with 12-round world championship bouts.[6]

Additionally, on the recommendation of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, the number of ring ropes was increased from five to six to prevent fighters from falling through the ropes and out of the ring.

In the years after Kim's death new medical procedures were introduced to fighters' pre-fight checkups, such as electrocardiograms, brain tests, and lung tests. As one boxing leader put it, "A fighter's check-ups before fights used to consist of blood pressure and heartbeat checks before 1982. Not anymore."

Wikipedia.

[Mizzou]

i believe the mancini-kim fight had a lot to do with it.

Mancini-Bramble in the fifteenth on ESPN 2

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

What happened? I don't know the history. Someone inform me.

If you ever get a chance, watch the documentary Triumph and Tragedy the Ray Mancini Story.

[Haterfree]

There are a lot of soft *****'s that pretend to be boxing experts. That is the real reason that there are no more 15 rd fights.

[Silencers]

Mancini-Bramble in the fifteenth on ESPN 2

The WBA didn't change their system until 1987.

[The_Italian]

It was for the safety of the fighters which is obviously THEE most important thing...

some complain there are no more 15 round fights; and i wish there were sometimes but if it means risking a fighter's well being then i'd rather see 12 rounders...

part of the problem is with the referees...they've gotten better over the years (they take better care and take closer looks at fighters who are stuggling or are in trouble)...

i bet if referees would have been more attentive back then that MAYBE not as many fighters would have been seriously injured.

its a combination of shortening the rounds of a fight; medical testing; and doctor/referee involvement thats made it safer.

i dont believe that 15 round fights in themselves caused all the problems...the medical staff and refs had something to do with as well.

[RodBarker]

I think they should still have 15 rounders for unification bouts , when two champs go at it for the whole enchilada it should be special and different than a standard 12 round WT fight , 13 14 15 were the real championship rounds .