Kid Gavilan and Marvin Hagler vs. Roberto Duran went 15 full rounds. It was also a fundamental part of the plot for famous boxing film Rocky, when Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa strived to "go the distance" against heavyweight champion Apollo Creed.
However there were concerns over the health and safety of fighters in round fights, and on November 13, Duk Koo Kim went into a coma after being knocked out in round 14 of his WBA lightweight championship fight against Ray Mancini before dying in hospital days later.
Three months after the fatal encounter, the WBC made the decision to reduce fights to 12 rounds, and the other major organisations eventually followed. In addition to the extra punishment fighters can sustain in those three rounds, experts concluded that it also led to increased long-term damage due to the additional dehydration and exhaustion.
The aforementioned rounds 13 through 15 were often regarded as 'championship rounds' because they were only ever required in major championship scenarios. In today's boxing, 'championship rounds' is used to refer to rounds nine through 12, with world title fights being scheduled for 12 and most rounders also being for British, American, European or titles of a similar level.
The phrase is commonly used with regards to a fighter's ability to dig deep and find that little bit extra in order to finish strong, similar to the importance of a good performance in the 'home stretch' of a racing competition.
Experienced defending champions have frequently survived a strong challenge from a younger challenger in the first eight rounds before stepping it up in those final four rounds, thus showing their 'championship quality'.
DAZN uses cookies to help us deliver our services and improve your user experience. Getty Images. Ten round fights are the pinnacle for non-championship fights in boxing. This is the highest level of competition where a belt is not on the line aside from the main event fight. From here, wins will get you consideration for title bouts, which is exactly what happened to Ryan.
The original round system and overall set of rules for boxing was developed in and is known as the Marquess of Queensberry rules. The rules were drafted by a Welsh sportsman named John Chambers, and they were named after John Sholto Douglas, who endorsed them as the 9th Marquess of Queensberry. The ruleset became a standard for professional boxing, and are still use to this day. The Marquess of Queensberry rules state that rounds are three minutes in length, with a one-minute interval of rest time in between each round.
The modern rules of boxing made up for this, specifying that the maximum number of rounds that a boxing match can last is twelve rounds. In short, boxing matches last either 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12 rounds, with 12 being the maximum. Today, the length of a boxing round will solely depend on the class or caliber of the match.
An Olympic match will have a different time from a professional or world title match, which will also differ from an amateur match or rematch. The length of each bout will also be determined by the age group. Professional boxing, also known as prizefighting, began to climb in popularity in the early 20th Century, eventually becoming a legitimate sport that is watched on ESPN and pay per view from high-profile Las Vegas matchroom venues.
Certain rules were developed as time evolved into what is known today as professional fighting. The sparring bouts are the longest with the contenders battling it out ringside for 12 rounds. Although twelve is the max that they can go for, some fights have four, six, eight, and even ten rounds — it all depends on the promoters of each match. Each bout consists of three minutes, where top rank boxing champions go at each other with everything they have, and then they rest for a minute prior to starting the next round of the title fight to become the next heavyweight champion.
A type of boxing that is practiced at the Olympic Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games, and many other organizations, amateur boxing is a type of boxing that involves no prize money. These fighters are not amateurs in any way and are just as capable as those who fight in the pros. However, amateur fights are not based on power and knockouts, but on the points garnered from the number of clean punches delivered to the opponent during the main event.
A bout in amateur boxing varies between men and women. For men, each round consists of three rounds of three minutes each. But reverting back to the past ruleset is highly unlikely of ever coming to fruition after so many years, with there having been many studies to highlight the damaging effects on combatants during the longer past format.
Some reports have previously concluded that the brain becomes more susceptible to damage beyond 12 rounds , while others have argued that 15 rounds escalates the risk of dehydration and exhaustion.
In the very early days of pugilism there were literally no limits of the number of rounds in bare-knuckle clashes, meaning those involved would have to battle to a definitive conclusion i. This, expectedly, led to a host of incredibly brutal encounters that could last for hours on end until laws were eventually brought in under Queensbury Rules that saw pre-determined lengths introduced.
The longest gloved fight ever recorded is widely believed to have lasted seven hours and 19 minutes back in April when Andy Bowen and Jack Burke traded blows for a remarkable rounds. This was later changed to a draw. Even into the early 20th century many true legends of the sport were involved in incredibly long battles before rounders became more common in the s onwards.
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