12 rounds just isnt enough anymore...

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  • Boxfan83
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    #1

    12 rounds just isnt enough anymore...

    Ive said it once, I will say it again. BRING BACK 15rds!!! Tired of all these "controversial decisions."

    Personally if GGG vs Jacobs and Kov vs Ward were 15rds, wed have 2 definitive winners.

    Thoughts?
  • fsutton
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    #2
    I say 13 Rounds or 11 its gotta be an odd number to try an avoid draws

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    • Boxfan83
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      #3
      Originally posted by fsutton
      I say 13 Rounds or 11 its gotta be an odd number to try an avoid draws
      13 wouldnt be bad and I agree about draws although I have no problem with hard fought draw.

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      • hhs661
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        Guys are bigger, stronger, faster and hit harder than yesteryear's boxers. They are lasting longer and their primes are extended due to different workout regimes, taking care of themselves better when they aren't fighting. 12 rounds is enough. This sport is dangerous enough. 3 extra rounds was taken off for a reason decades ago. 12 rounds should be more than enough to establish who a winner and loser is during a fight.

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        • El Gitano
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          #5
          15 rounds fights might be more boring since fighters will probably hold back a lot more in order to make it the 15th round, I think 13 rounds is perfect, 3 championship rounds, 11, 12 and 13.

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          • NEETzsche
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            #6
            Agreed

            Judges could also start giving 10-8 for clear rounds and 10-9 for close rounds (with the usual -1 for knock downs), because at the moment 10-9 rounds cover way too much ground. This could have given us a more satisfying conclusion to DeGale vs Jack for example, in which I felt that the rounds won by Jack were more emphatic than the rounds won by DeGale

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            • -Kev-
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              #7
              It's probably what cost boxing injuries, or post-boxing illnesses in the first place. If we get 15 rounds again, boxers face increased health risks.

              Not sure if Mancini vs Kim was 12 rounds if there would've been a death in that fight. Maybe, maybe not.

              There's also fights you have to look at, like Perez vs Magomed which was only 10 rounds.

              Also the recent death in 2012 of the Pinoy boxer, Karlo Maquinto, who fought just 8 rounds and died from injuries of that fight.

              So if current boxers are passing away, sustaining life threatening injuries, from just 12 round fights or less, then imagine what 15 rounds will do.

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              • daggum
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                #8
                12 rounds is too much if its a ward fight.

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                • Last Roman
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                  #9
                  With modern endurance training we should probably go to 20 for big title fights.
                  Will settle for 15 because for watchability reasons.

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                  • Tony Trick-Pony
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Boxfan83
                    Ive said it once, I will say it again. BRING BACK 15rds!!! Tired of all these "controversial decisions."

                    Personally if GGG vs Jacobs and Kov vs Ward were 15rds, wed have 2 definitive winners.

                    Thoughts?
                    There's no doubt about it. I thought Jacobs was fading there at the end and we'd have probably got another KD which would have made it more decisive, even though it was very decisive in my eyes.

                    Kovalev-Ward would have gotten more interesting, too. Twelve rounds is a long time, but fifteen really are true championship rounds where anything can happen.

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