Home and Home bouts

by burge on Jan 25, 2012 2:10 PM EST

As a relatively new boxing fan, the idea of home and home fights such as the ones being proposed between Froch and Bute strikes me as extremely odd. If one bloke completely creams the other ie. a dominating performance resulting in wide UD or KO, what would be the point of repeating a fight when the match-up is completely uneven. Alternatively, if the fight is an absolute bore and no-one cares to see it again then interest in a second fight would be low. I reckon a better way of doing it would be to stick a clause in the contracts ordering an immediate rematch in case of a controversial or close fight, although i dunno who would decide that. Is it something that has been done before? If so did that turn out to be a successful format?

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I find it kind of odd, but then again I’m against 90% of rematches anyways. I’m most impressed by people consistently fighting new people, but I understand rematches when they are needed. Either way, planning a rematch is stupid.

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by RyanSexton on Jan 25, 2012 3:21 PM EST reply actions

I have zero problems with rematches, but a home-and-home is an odd thing for boxing. I think what they really should do is just write in a rematch clause — have the summer fight in Montreal, which I believe is what Hearn/Froch are targeting now, with a rematch clause; if Froch wins, have a rematch (that’s fairly standard procedure for a lot of title fights anyway) in the UK. It’s tough to write in a rematch clause for a ‘controversial’ or close fight since the winning party could just say “No it wasn’t.”

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by Scott Christ on Jan 25, 2012 4:52 PM EST reply actions

If the first fight is a blowout

They’ll probably just agree not to have the second fight. More often than not, when someone loses a blowout and has a rematch right, they just don’t exercise the rematch option. That’s not always the case though – Dawson-Tarver II immediately comes to mind.

But yeah, it’s odd to have a home and home negotiated. I can’t remember ever seeing one in the past.

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by Brickhaus on Jan 27, 2012 2:35 PM EST reply actions