Why are championship boxing matches 12 rounds?

[jpm101]

Those extra two rounds are called the champion rounds, added to see which fighter has that extra desire and skills to take the match from the other guy. Who have the champion heart, as it were.

A good judge (three, including referee) will take into consideration how many potential blows are blocked or deflected, as well as the ones that get by.

Pro boxing is one of the most dishonest and dirty sports around, and has been for probably the beginning of time.. But I still love boxing, one of the more electrifying sports, when a good match is involved. Attending an excellent fight is something to remember always.

[Tennisballz]

Those extra two rounds are called the champion rounds, added to see which fighter has that extra desire and skills to take the match from the other guy. Who have the champion heart, as it were.

A good judge (three, including referee) will take into consideration how many potential blows are blocked or deflected, as well as the ones that get by.

Pro boxing is one of the most dishonest and dirty sports around, and has been for probably the beginning of time.. But I still love boxing, one of the more electrifying sports, when a good match is involved. Attending an excellent fight is something to remember always.

Every round in a championship fight is a champion round.  I just don't buy the idea that more than 5 or 6 rounds are needed.  If a boxer is exerting himself and actually trying every round then 6 rounds is plenty to test his endurance.  Nevermind the fact that usually in a 12 round fight there are 2 "feel out" rounds and each fighter will "take a round off" later in the fight to conserve energy.  What these terms are are BS excuses for the fact that the body is not meant to box for 12 rounds.  If the body was meant for it, fighters would go ham for 12 rounds but they never do.  I agree, exciting fights are fantastic....but only 1 out of 10 are exciting these days.  Give fighters a reason to give their all every round and you will get exciting fights.  The old guard is starting to die off....boxing doesn't have much longer unless they start making the fights fans want and making them more exciting.  MMA gives the fights the fans want.  After the initial burst mma has died down a bit, but I predict it will rise and far surpass boxing unless boxing changes with the times.  Fans scream for a fight and Dana White gives it to the best of his ability.  Boxing is just a nightmare.  You have a few big promoters who covet and protect their cash cows and the result is fights like Pacquiao vs Mayweather 5 years too late and a bore fest.  People still bought it, but it turned many people away.

[Agnostic007]

Every round in a championship fight is a champion round.  I just don't buy the idea that more than 5 or 6 rounds are needed.  If a boxer is exerting himself and actually trying every round then 6 rounds is plenty to test his endurance.  Nevermind the fact that usually in a 12 round fight there are 2 "feel out" rounds and each fighter will "take a round off" later in the fight to conserve energy.  What these terms are are BS excuses for the fact that the body is not meant to box for 12 rounds.  If the body was meant for it, fighters would go ham for 12 rounds but they never do.  I agree, exciting fights are fantastic....but only 1 out of 10 are exciting these days.  Give fighters a reason to give their all every round and you will get exciting fights.  The old guard is starting to die off....boxing doesn't have much longer unless they start making the fights fans want and making them more exciting.  MMA gives the fights the fans want.  After the initial burst mma has died down a bit, but I predict it will rise and far surpass boxing unless boxing changes with the times.  Fans scream for a fight and Dana White gives it to the best of his ability.  Boxing is just a nightmare.  You have a few big promoters who covet and protect their cash cows and the result is fights like Pacquiao vs Mayweather 5 years too late and a bore fest.  People still bought it, but it turned many people away.

10 rounds.. I won't budge a round lower. Take it or leave it

[funk51]

should be 13 rounds

[polychronopolous]

Jim Jacobs(Mike Tyson's former manager, handball champion, owner of massive fight tape and comic book collection) claimed in an interview that the old timey boxers had the greatest stamina of all. And that guy had 1000s of historical fight films going back to the turn of the 20th century.

[Kwon3]

Modern boxers from cruiser weight on don't have the cardio for 15. Too bad, those last three rounds actually made the fight worth watching because the guys were so mauled that you were basically watching a trainwreck where the winner was whoever would drop dead first.

[Agnostic007]

Jim Jacobs(Mike Tyson's former manager, handball champion, owner of massive fight tape and comic book collection) claimed in an interview that the old timey boxers had the greatest stamina of all. And that guy had 1000s of historical fight films going back to the turn of the 20th century.

The old timeys had no round limit. They fought until someone quit or was knocked out. It stands to reason they had stamina. But the rules changed and boxers conditioned accordingly. Had the rules not changed I don't see a reason why current boxers wouldn't meet that level.

[che]

Convince me why it's a good thing that championship boxing matches are a monotonous 36 minutes?  It's dreadful to watch boxers go at 70% because they have to conserve energy.  Why are any fights 10 or 8 or even 6 rounds?  Fighters taking a few rounds to "feel each other out" or fighters "taking a round off" to conserve energy, these are lies the announcers tell you to as an excuse for boring fights with little action.  Boxing should be 5 rounds maximum.  If you can't assert yourself as the better puncher within 5 rounds, maybe dancing is a better sport for you.  Get your ass in the ring, get after it and get out....on with the next fight.

STFU you know nothing about boxing  , go watch Paige Van Zant