NBC Sports asked to increase time between rounds for commercials.

[Evil Abed]

J.Miller, of NBC Sports, asked Association of Boxing Commissions to increase time between RDs to 67sec to allow a full minute of commercials.

Only 7 extra seconds. But it could be a slippery slope.

[Bushbaby]

That won't work for boxing, would it??

[MJ223]

Not feeling it......

[~AK49~]

Ya, i dont really care for the thought of changing the sports rules for the sake of millionaires/billionaires wanting to make even more money.

[El Angel]

I don't like it.

[eli porter]

Fuck off. I know Americans are willing to watch the obscene amounts of advertising time embedded in their shows but they can get to fuck if they think they can force this shit on the rest of the fight fan world.

ALSO, it's a fucking sport. They're going to water down the contest even more? it's already difficult to compare the achievements of modern boxers to older generations.

You can't just change the rules just to suit some cunts who want to sell you shite fast food and tampons.

[Cardinal Buck]

^you have the best name and avatar on here

[littlemac]

I would be cool with that if they did their advertising on the ring girls string bikiness, and they shouldn't worry about not being enough room cause they can always use smaller fonts and zoom in

[Poet682006]

You can't just change the rules just to suit some cunts who want to sell you shite fast food and tampons.

They've already done that a number of times. The reason championship fights went from 15 rounds to 12 rounds was to suit the TV networks who wanted fights to fit into a 1 hour time block. They went to day before weigh-ins because the TV networks went ballistic after a televised championship fight got cancelled due to one of the fighters not making weight.

Do I like boxing being fundamentally altered to suit whims of TV executives? No. But I can't pretend that it hasn't happened before.

Poet

[Blue Heffner]

No, No, No.