In professional boxing, until the 1980s, the championship distance - TopicsExpress



          

In professional boxing, until the 1980s, the championship distance generally referred to the title rounds that numbered between 13 and 15.For decades, the last heavyweight title match scheduled for less than 15 rounds had been the September 22, 1927 10-rounder between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey; from then, the only bout that wasnt scheduled for 15 rounds had been a scheduled 20-rounder between Joe Louis and Abe Simon on March 21, 1941.This changed though, following the death of lightweight Duk Koo Kim in 1982 after his fourteen-round fight with Ray Mancini, which was so shocking that two people committed suicide as a result Almost immediately, the World Boxing Council (WBC) issued a statement saying that WBC world title bouts would be set for 12 rounds
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:19:10 +0000

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