Mancini-Kim has been cited as the fight that changed boxing from 15 rounds to 12 rounds, and the weigh-in procedures as well. For those who lived in that era (or read more about it), do you think that safety was the real reason, or just a smokescreen for monetary reasons (12 rounds fitting in an hour of network TV easier than 15, money lost because of Spinks-Muhammad 2 falling apart)??
this is a very astute observation and question erratic, I think its a little bit of both. The move to 12 rounds was coming, and the swell following Mancini-Kim was the "straw that borke the camel's back" persay, but I think it would've happened anyhow. There is a parallel in mathematics, if u don't mind me delving into my area of study. But the professor I respect the most puts it like this. If Gauss, Newton, Euler, etc... never existed, mathematics would still exist as it is today. they are the names attached to the things they developed most. but if it wasn't them it would've been someone else coming up with these ideas that many times are presented simultaneously (as was the case wth leibniz and Newton with Calculus) For boxing, I think it was coming anyway, the fight just gave people the excuse to do it in such a drastic haste.
