Comments Thread For: Katie Taylor: 'I Don't Know If Women's Boxing Has the Strength and Depth to Have 3-Minute Rounds'

[Rockybigblower]

Well yeah

She shat her knickers when Serrano asked her to do minute rounds.

I'll buy them.

[Rockybigblower]

Why cant they just do 12 rounds for title fights like the men. The 3 mins could also be for title fights as well.

[Boxing2695]

My thoughts exactly about the Rankin and Kozin fight.

I only watched it because I had a bet on some fights on that card and ema kozin to win was one of the fights I had but it was a tough watch just so poor in terms of quality. It even made 10x2 rounds seem like forever

[real raw]

Womens boxing is bad enough with 10x2s and them going hell for leather.
There is rarely knockdowns let alone knockouts and would be even less with them having to pace themselves better.

Like just put it to 3 already, get it over with, we'll see its even more unbearable than ever and then we can change it back.

women have a third less time to achieve a kd

[famicommander]

Every other female boxer I've seen answers that they should fight 3 minute rounds.

I think it's entirely possible for women to want to box 3 minute rounds and at the same time acknowledge that the shift could further expose an already shallow talent pool.

I have no doubt that fighters such as Cameron, Shields, Taylor, Braekhus, Persoon, Bopp, Estrada, Marshall, Baumgardner, Mayer, Serrano, Jonas, McCaskill, etc could do 12x3.

But in reality there are only a few women's divisions with more than 5 good fighters in them. So fighting more rounds of longer lengths is just going to shine a bigger light on the gap between the legitimate talent in women's boxing and the pretenders.

Ultimately I still think they have to make the change, but there are definitely going to be growing pains.

[dan_cov]

All Taylors fights are exactly the same.
Looks alright for four rounds then gasses and her technique goes out of the window and everything is forced. Head down, flailing away with her eyes closed like a toddler to barely hold onto a close and often debatable decision.

She has four good 2 minute rounds in her.

She hasn't the stamina for 12x3, she doesn't even for 10x2
As accomplished as she is, she is more suited to the amateur system.

12x3 would only possibly suit Serrano or Shields as she has the ring I.Q too pull it off but why would she when she easily gets the job done in 10x2 min rounds, its not like she'd be getting paid more.

[vitruvian]

I can't bring myself to watch women's sports

[Boricua181]

We would also get more stoppages with more time to work, Serrano ran out of time and had to rush her offense in the fight with Taylor, had her stumbling all over the ring in the middle rds.

Fact's! She had Taylor concussed, she was really in bad shape, she was lucky that she didn't agree to the 3 minute rounds for their fight.
It took her a couple of more months for her to recover than it took Serrano, before they fought against other opponent's.

[deathofaclown]

I'll buy them.

I might know a guy who can get them...

what's your budget?

[Rockybigblower]

I might know a guy who can get them...

what's your budget?

A case of beer and a bag of chips.