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Caroline Dubois retained her WBC world title in her first fight in 2025 [Getty Images] 2025 schedule The BBC is not responsible for any changes to dates and fixtures.
In professional boxing, until the 1980s, the "championship distance" generally referred to the title rounds that numbered between 13 and 15. [7] [8] 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 was not scheduled for 15 rounds had been a scheduled 20 ...
Mike Tyson (50-6-2, 44 KOs) and Jake Paul (10-1, 7 KOs) finally are in the ring and the most anticipated fight in probably a decade is set to begin.
Before the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul main event starts Friday night, here are the results for each of the fights on the undercard.
So, if a fighter wins a round, but is penalised for a foul, the score changes from 10–9 to 9–9. If that same fighter scored a knockdown in the round, the score would change from 10–8 in his favour to 9–8. While uncommon, if a fighter completely dominates a round but does not score a knockdown, a judge can still score that round 10–8.
Larry Holmes had been the WBC heavyweight champion since 1978, when he beat Ken Norton by a fifteen-round split decision at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.Over the course of his illustrious career, on the way to almost tying the great Rocky Marciano's record of 49-0, losing in the 49th fight, a decision to Michael Spinks, fought such fighters as Tim Witherspoon, Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver ...
The fight between Tyson and Paul is sanctioned by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and includes several unique rules.
Long count or slow count is a term used in boxing. When a boxer is knocked down in a fight, the referee will count over them and the boxer must rise to their feet, unaided, by the count of ten or else deemed to have been knocked out .