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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4290243, member: 289"]
I never understood why championship bouts have to be longer than regular main event bouts. The Super Bowl is a 60-minute game. I don't even know why main events are 10 rounds - because we have 10 fingers? Olympic gold medals are awarded after 3 round bouts. I don't know how long bouts should be, (although three round bouts would be disappointing to pay per view customers). Should rounds be two minutes rather than 3? I'm just saying that some science should be part of the determination. How long do fatal fights or those with permanent injuries last? At what point had the injured fighter gone on too long? How many punches is too many? Should there be a 'halftime' where the fighters could be examined medically? Can we implant sensors in the gloves to determine how many punches have landed and with what force? Could that or the punch count be used to determine when fights should end or who won them?

Some of those may be good ideas or bad ideas but at least they would be the product of research on what happens to fighters, not how many fingers we have.
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