If boxing were to have countless rounds until someone gets stopped
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being heavy handed definitely helps. But guys like Bradley and Algieri will still be energized when their opponents gas out and that is when they can take advantage.Comment
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The longest uninterrupted heavyweight championship bout was between James Burke "The Deaf Un" and Simon Byrne, it lasted into the 99th round, on May 30th 1833. Byrne took so much punishment he died as a result of the fight. James Burke was exonerated and claimed the heavyweight championship. Irishman Simon Byrne was himself responsible for a ring death a couple years earlier on June 2nd, 1830 by beating Sandy McKay in 47 rounds, and beat a manslaughter charge for that result, so I guess what goes around comes around.
The longest Pro fight was an 1893 lightweight match between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke that went 111 rounds was actually for a vacated title, and both Bowen & Burke quit, so that fight was actually a draw, with no successor to retired champion Jack MCAuliffe's vacated title.
In 1845 American Charles Freeman took on Englishman William "The Tipton Slasher" Perry of the heavyweight title in England. The bout went into the 70th round until the referee called a halt to the contest on account of the gathering darkness and ordered the fight to continue the next day. Perry delayed the resumption of the fight for two weeks, but eventually they continued. After 37 more rounds the referee disqualified Perry and declared Freeman champ, but Freeman died a short time later of tuberculosis Oct 18th, so technically that one went 107 and topped the other heavyweight championship fight by 8 rounds.
During the mid 1800's the part of American history that spawned the movie "Gangs of NewYork", boxing and politics in America went hand in hand. American Tom Hyer went 101 rounds with George "Country McCluskey" McChester on Sept. 9th, 1841 at Caldwell's Landing NY, but it was a non-title match.
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It would be a dream come true if this ever happened... Fight to the death!!!! I got that medieval type of humor/entertainment ideals.
Would be sick. I wish I could time travel back to the days where gladiators would fight lions at the coliseums. I love that type of savage ****.Comment
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Truth be told, the excitement would diminish drastically.
Slick fighters would hop on the old bike and wait for their opponent to punch themselves out. If the fighter pressing the action is smart, he'd take his foot off the pedal when he senses fatigue setting in.
You need a finite amount of rounds to place pressure on fighters to actually win them.Comment

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