What ever happened to 15 round title fights?

[stavros693000]

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[Punisher136]

Also i think if fighters were more active they wouldn't have as many injuries. Think about it. If they fight more often, their body might actually adapt to the head trauma. If you take a long break then get in the ring your brain's not adjusted to take the trauma but if you take a shorter break it won't be such a shock for the brain. Now obviously if you've just got out of a war with someone a longer break would probably be better but im talking about after fights where you didn't really get hit much (or it ended in an early round). Then again i'm no brain doctor so i wouldn't know the details. I read a report where they said amateur boxers still had higher amounts of a fluid in their brain that denotes brain damage (or the breaking down of certain brain cells, im not exactly sure how they worded it) 3 months after a fights than a normal person. A glass of wine a day is good for the heart and brain. 20 beers once a month is hell on the liver and the previous two. Maybe they should do a study to see if fighting while having a higher than average (but not really high) amount of this chemical in your brain reduces the chances of getting a brain injury. I'm just saying its something to look into.

[Punisher136]

If the truth be known its all to do with TV schedules 12 rds fit in better. Theres been more accidends since the change than before percentage fight wise

15 rounders are approximately 1hr and they would fit better if the station quit trying to make every bum in a ppv fight look like Rocky. "Oh he had a tough life filled with drugs and prison time". You think?! I thought he had a full scholarship from harvard but turned it down to get punched in the face for the rest of his life!

[mucho testosterone]

Re: What ever happened to 15 round title fights?


The same thing that happened to sniffing glue....

people found out how bad it was for your brain and they stopped doing it.

[Punisher136]

Re: What ever happened to 15 round title fights?


The same thing that happened to sniffing glue....

people found out how bad it was for your brain and they stopped doing it.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Well what they should do is regulate the dosage for about... Hmm 20 Years to establish what the problem was (JOE CORTEZ!) then re- regulate the original dosage...
























Or you could always bring back the 15 rounder

[Punisher136]

Well what they should do is regulate the dosage for about... Hmm 20 Years to establish what the problem was (JOE CORTEZ!) then re- regulate the original dosage...


























Or you could always bring back the 15 rounder

It would do the sport alot of good if they brought it back. Less controversial draws and decisions, It would bring back the prestige of old school title fights, it could get some fans reinterested in the sport (in order to thoroughly do this some fights should be on basic cable), and like i said before if you fight thru 4 15 rounders or 5 12 rounders its the same amount of damage. In fact the 5 12 rounders would actually be worse because your opponent wouldn't be as tired while throwing the punches. Let's say (rough and probably generous estimate) that a heavyweight can throw his best hardest punches thru the first 5 rounds b4 fatigue starts to set in. Getting thru 60 rounds by way of the 15 rounders you have to go 20 rounds with a guys best punches. By way of going thru 60 rounds the 12 round way you'd have to go thru 25 rounds.

[mucho testosterone]

I am glad Howard Cosell left boxing to go to Football in 82 after being disgraced by the Holmes fight. He was all ego and just used boxiing to prove a point. I remember him saying he would not watch a boxing match again or commentate one and I thought, there is a guy using boxing to prove a point about his ego..

I couldn't stand him either. I was young but I still remember that atrocious haunting voice of his. He was definately a meglomaniac.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

I am glad Howard Cosell left boxing to go to Football in 82 after being disgraced by the Holmes fight. He was all ego and just used boxiing to prove a point. I remember him saying he would not watch a boxing match again or commentate one and I thought, there is a guy using boxing to prove a point about his ego..

I couldn't stand him either. I was young but I still remember that atrocious haunting voice of his. He was definately a meglomaniac.

Why? What happend?

[Punisher136]

Also people fight alittle more aggressively in a 12 rounder as opposed to a 15 rounder. So eventho the fight is longer, the damage being done is less.

[stavros693000]

last know HW title bout to go 15 rds

rocky balboa vs ivan drago held in moscow 1985!

[X]

I am glad Howard Cosell left boxing to go to Football in 82 after being disgraced by the Holmes fight. He was all ego and just used boxiing to prove a point. I remember him saying he would not watch a boxing match again or commentate one and I thought, there is a guy using boxing to prove a point about his ego..

I couldn't stand him either. I was young but I still remember that atrocious haunting voice of his. He was definately a meglomaniac.

Why? What happend?

He was a famous boxing commentator for years - the voice of the sport in the US from the 60's onwards.

He was commentating on the Holmes v Tex Cobb 'fight', and was apparently sickened by the systematic and ruthless beating that Cobb absorbed for so long. he said it was barbaric and that he would never commentate a fight again, and he never has.

I suspect the truth of it is that he was aging and wanted more money, so the network told him to fuck off and terminated his contract. he then called the fight as if it was his choice to walk away to give himself a bit of dignity in leaving. Cobb himself was in the lift with him at a hotel the next day, and he said that all Cosell was doing was moaning about the travel and how he never saw his wife - he never mentioned this so-called life-changing fight to one of its chief protagonists.

That's what I heard, anyway.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Typical Bullshitter

Actually, im suprised that Larry Merchant didnt walk out on Boxing after bieng "sickened" at the sight of the sytematic boxing clinic that Floyd exhibited. Citing that Boxing today was far too cute and pink.

Only to discuss with Floyd in the lift later that he had to leave boxing because after all the travelling, Larry was having trouble recalling were he lived and that also he was receiving complaints from HBO producers about him, claiming that he was smelling of wee.

[mucho testosterone]

I am glad Howard Cosell left boxing to go to Football in 82 after being disgraced by the Holmes fight. He was all ego and just used boxiing to prove a point. I remember him saying he would not watch a boxing match again or commentate one and I thought, there is a guy using boxing to prove a point about his ego..

I couldn't stand him either. I was young but I still remember that atrocious haunting voice of his. He was definately a meglomaniac.

Why? What happend?

He was a famous boxing commentator for years - the voice of the sport in the US from the 60's onwards.

He was commentating on the Holmes v Tex Cobb 'fight', and was apparently sickened by the systematic and ruthless beating that Cobb absorbed for so long. he said it was barbaric and that he would never commentate a fight again, and he never has.

I suspect the truth of it is that he was aging and wanted more money, so the network told him to F*** off and terminated his contract. he then called the fight as if it was his choice to walk away to give himself a bit of dignity in leaving. Cobb himself was in the lift with him at a hotel the next day, and he said that all Cosell was doing was moaning about the travel and how he never saw his wife - he never mentioned this so-called life-changing fight to one of its chief protagonists.

That's what I heard, anyway.

Not suprised...he is part of the reason why I didn't watch sports when I was a kid.

[Punisher136]

ok since they're worried about fighters after the 12th round why not have doctors check both fighters out more carefuly after the 12th?