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In 1983 a boxer was stripped of his title by the WBA because the fight had been a 15 rounder.

The WBC & WBA had changed championship fights from 15 rounds to 12 rounds, after the death of Lightweight boxer Duk Koo Kim against Ray Mancini in 1982.

Who was the 1983 champion boxer who lost his title because of the rule change?

I was reading about it, but it failed to say who lost the belt!

In 1983 the only two fighters to go 15 rounds in a title fight were Micael Spinks and Donald Curry. Curry won the WBA welterweight title and Spinks fought Dwight Qawi, who was the WBC champion, so it may have been Spinks because he held the WBA title and they may have been upset because he was fighting to unify the division...sounds like something the WBA would do though!

ABA Boxing wrote:In 1983 a boxer was stripped of his title by the WBA because the fight had been a 15 rounder.

The WBC & WBA had changed championship fights from 15 rounds to 12 rounds, after the death of Lightweight boxer Duk Koo Kim against Ray Mancini in 1982.

Who was the 1983 champion boxer who lost his title because of the rule change?

I was reading about it, but it failed to say who lost the belt!

I thought only WBC had changed to 12 rounds by 83??? I thought the WBA followed suit a while later.

Ezzard wrote:

ABA Boxing wrote:In 1983 a boxer was stripped of his title by the WBA because the fight had been a 15 rounder.

The WBC & WBA had changed championship fights from 15 rounds to 12 rounds, after the death of Lightweight boxer Duk Koo Kim against Ray Mancini in 1982.

Who was the 1983 champion boxer who lost his title because of the rule change?

I was reading about it, but it failed to say who lost the belt!

I thought only WBC had changed to 12 rounds by 83??? I thought the WBA followed suit a while later.

The WBA didn't change until late '86 or early '87 so the question makes no sense at all.

Hmm I've looked for this too, could you have the year wrong? Or perhaps the sport?

I don’t know when the first WBA title fight was scheduled for 12 rounds, but the first WBA title bout that went 12 rounds was Mike Tyson W 12 Bonecrusher Smith on March 7, 1987 and the last bout that went the 15 rounds distance was Fidel Bassa W 15 Hilario Zapata on February 13 1987. Sometime between February 13, 1987 and March 7, 1987 the WBA changed from 15 to 12 rounds, so the year 1983 could not be correct.

"What 1983 champion lost his title?"

All of them... Eventually. :P

Damn it I knew this was a trick question.

I was reading it at Wikipedia

The link is www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing#Length_of_bouts

The part where it talks about what i asked is under
Professional boxing.
3.3 Length of bouts.

This is what it says.

Length of bouts
For decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s, world championship matches in professional boxing were scheduled for fifteen rounds, but that changed after a November 13, 1982 WBA Lightweight title bout ended with the death of boxer Duk Koo Kim in a fight against Ray Mancini in the 14th round of a nationally televised championship fight on CBS.

Exactly three months after the fatal fight, the World Boxing Council reduced the number of their championship fights to 12 rounds. The World Boxing Association even stripped a fighter of his championship in 1983 because the fight had been a 15-round bout, shortly after the rule was changed to 12 rounds. By 1988, to the displeasure of many boxing purists, all fights had been reduced to a maximum of 12 rounds only, partially for safety, and partially for television, as a 12-round bout could take one hour to broadcast, while a 15-round bout could requre 90 minutes to broadcast.

That was a sad time for boxing...when fighters were reduced to 12 rounds for championship bouts....If a fighter can't make it from 13-15....he gets beat, and there would have been many different championship outcomes. Ask Tommy Hearns..... if that fight were only 12 rds..... Or Marvin Hagler vs Ray Leonard, if that fight were 15 rds.....

They pussed down boxing. Because of the Mancini/Kim fight, and Mancini was a bum...and getting a beating in that fight. I watched it.

It seems the wikipedia entry may be in error on it's point. Wonder why it does not name the fighter who lost the title.

Maybe it was the Marvin Hagler-Wilford Scypion fight, I know there was an issue of difference concerning the title limit, and Hagler went on to fight under the USBA/I banner for 15 rds if I'm correct.

Didnt Arguello have some problems with them at this time.