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So what's your point? I 'm pretty sure you are against going to 15 rounds. Are you arguing a cause & effect relationship between 15 round fights and all of the cases you have mentioned here? Cause I really am not convinced that there would have been significant less chance of these situations if they had fought 12 round fights. That is the issue.
Sure there is, ever since theyve pulled the fights back to 12 rounds there seem to be less boxers who retired who can barely talk.
Why risk them like that,its not going to improve the sport anyway,it wont decrease draws,draws were just as common under 15 round fights as they are now
fair enough, if that's really true then I suppose one can hardly support 15 rds. I was thinking more of the immediate traumatic injury or death like that suffered by Kim. But the slurred speech thing, dementia, etc. kinda makes sense.
Its a risk reward thing
As far as the reward,usually those last 3 round used to be dull at best,so your not improving fight quality
It doesnt reduce the risk of the draw,they used to happen all the time in the 15 round era
And as far as the health of the fighter,even great HW's from that era slurr their speech
And those are the luckier ones
The way Quarry lived his last years was absoultely pathetic
Its not just boxing concussive dementia can happen in either
Former NFL Safety Andre Waters committed suicide while suffering from it
WWE Wrestler Chris Benoit was suffering from it when he killed himself and his family
Its just not worth the risks