Will we live to see boxing banned?

[Max Power]

I don't think fights will drop from 12 rounds. I think 12 is optimum for a prize fight. It's enough to play out the tactical gameplans of professional boxers yet short enough to allow an explosive event without too much energy conservation.

10 and 9 or 8 round championship fights don't have the same ring as 12 does.

[TitoFan]

I don't think they'll drop championship fights below 12 rounds, either. Good fights have ebbs and flows. Ten rounds just aren't enough time for some of those to fully develop. But probably the biggest reason is that many fighters are notoriously slow starters and don't even get going until the middle rounds. This would drastically alter their fight strategies, and pose an unfair disadvantage to them.

[Max Power]

Yeah agreed, it would be a low point if they ever did that. Definitely don't want to move the sport closer to amateur boxing system.

I think maybe they should adjust the weigh ins system. I believe they should weigh in something like 24hrs prior to fight time or something.

The way it is atm the fighters starve and dehydrate massively to just make a weight and then pig out and drink their way somethimes up to 20lbs heavier than they were supposed to be. These days the actual weight ranges are a whole division out of tune. The welterweights are really the middleweights of yesteryear and so forth. Maybe not same day weigh ins but something closer to 24hrs seems logical to me.

[TitoFan]

Yeah agreed, it would be a low point if they ever did that. Definitely don't want to move the sport closer to amateur boxing system.

I think maybe they should adjust the weigh ins system. I believe they should weigh in something like 24hrs prior to fight time or something.

The way it is atm the fighters starve and dehydrate massively to just make a weight and then pig out and drink their way somethimes up to 20lbs heavier than they were supposed to be. These days the actual weight ranges are a whole division out of tune. The welterweights are really the middleweights of yesteryear and so forth. Maybe not same day weigh ins but something closer to 24hrs seems logical to me.

Weigh-ins are the joke of boxing. Weight divisions were made to level the playing field with regards to size. But when someone like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. routinely comes in at 30 pounds over his opponent, by either breaking the rules, or bending them to almost the point of breaking..... it makes a mockery of the sport.

[Max Power]

30lbs! Christ! That's outrageous! In reality then the natural difference between a fighter at the low end of the scale and one at the upper could be enormous. That's not right ey. Who came up with this idea and did they not consider the implications when they did?

[TitoFan]

30lbs! Christ! That's outrageous! In reality then the natural difference between a fighter at the low end of the scale and one at the upper could be enormous. That's not right ey. Who came up with this idea and did they not consider the implications when they did?

You know what they say...... "rules are made to be broken."

Someone like Junior is not skilled enough to contend in his natural weight division, where he's got nothing to offer but a famous name and a better than average chin. So he uses his family influences (WBC chief Jose Sulaiman is his godfather and lifetime chum of Junior's dad), and bends the living shit out of the rules. Not to mention that Junior was previously suspended for the use of diuretics in order to artificially make weight and then bloat up 25-30 pounds. So what do you end up with? A fight between a poor bastard, and someone who is TWO weight divisions above him.

And they have the nerve to call it sport......

[bzkfn]

If they try then I say we form a lunch mob and beat them senseless until they realise legal fighting is the way to go.

[TitoFan]

If they try then I say we form a lunch mob and beat them senseless until they realise legal fighting is the way to go.

I know what you meant.
But I got this sudden mental picture of a bunch of guys taking their lunch break to go protest the banning of boxing.

[Kirkland Laing]

If they try then I say we form a lunch mob and beat them senseless until they realise legal fighting is the way to go.

The absolute last thing Chavez Junior needs is another lunching.

I don't see boxing being banned anytime soon. It's recently been unbanned in countries where they're at their most politically correct like Sweden. As long as boxing remains a niche sport things like Abdusalamov will go under the radar.