13th round fought to break a draw

[UncleCuntington]

I haven't heard of this happening in recent decades, but apparently in 1987 Doug De Witt and Tony Thornton fought a 13th round to determine a winner.

Did anyone see the fight?

Are there any other examples of this happening in the past 40 years or so?

[Flab]

I haven't heard of this happening in recent decades, but apparently in 1987 Doug De Witt and Tony Thornton fought a 13th round to determine a winner.

Did anyone see the fight?

Are there any other examples of this happening in the past 40 years or so?

James Toney owned him.

[ophqui]

thats interesting, so its not queensbury right? if its too many rounds? i'd hate to see boxing try to be k-1 and have a rule change to do extra rounds though, they've already stolen the tournament format

[MANGLER]

I never heard nothin about this. Theoretically it sounds cool, but it'd look kinda ****** for a fight to end, the final scores be tallied, than anotha rd announced to determine the winner cuz it was a draw. Especially if it was an obvious close fight and both guys went all out tryin to KO each other in the 12th.

[The Iron Man]

It would be a hell of a round!

[Thread Stealer]

They used to do this for USBA titles.

I was watching the James Green-Frank Fletcher fight a little while ago (very good fight), and the commentator mentioned that this.