The distance (boxing) 19, 1987. While the International Boxing Federation, which had recently broken away from the WBA, continued to hold onto the position there was no documented medical evidence to show a 15-round fight is more dangerous than a 12-round fight, they eventually voted to shorten their championship distance to 12 rounds as well on June 3, 1988. The last heavyweight 15-rounder title fight was on October 16, 1987 between Mike Tyson and Tyrell Biggs. The last middleweight 15-rounder title fight was a World Boxing Board title match on June 7, 1997 in which Jose Alfredo Flores won a split decision over
Men's Thai-Boxing at W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 Skopje +91 kg finalists Mirko Vlahović of Montenegro and Mladen Bozic from Serbia took bronze. Men's Thai-Boxing at W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 Skopje +91 kg The men's super heavyweight (+91 kg/200.2 lbs) Thai-Boxing division at the W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 in Skopje was the heaviest of the male Thai-Boxing tournaments and involved eight fighters. Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under Thai-Boxing rules. The tournament champion was Alexey Kudin of Belarus who defeated Croatian Valentino Venturini in the final by KO to win the gold medal. It was a sweet victory for Kudzin who had