DURATION ( LENGTH ) OF BOUTS

I understand the logistics involved for the promoter.....if you have four of five bouts on your bill there have to be time restrictions otherwise you could be there till midnight. But who decides them and on what basis ? And best of three falls or just one fall or submission? I love looking at all the old posters you guys put up and I always check the number of rounds etc. It is fascinating one caught. My eye yesterday that was for FOUR rounds of TEN minutes duration them are long rounds. I remember reading on this site that Julian Maurice. felt if he had done 20 minutes in the ring that was his lot, I was not impressed. Towards the end of ITV coverage in the eighties even title bouts time limit became less and less........so they would be 12 or 10 rounds of three minutes duration when you take into consideration falls that occur they rarely went over 25 minutes. If you look on you tube at world of sport bouts even complete ones are rarely much more than this. What do you all think? I confess sometimes I feel short changed particularly as falls mainly occurred in the first minute or so of a round ( why was Kent eternally surprised at this?). I am watching a lot of the wrestling now from the late fifties early sixties from across the channel. A lot of them are ONE FALL and a lot DO NOT EVEN HAVE ROUNDS. What you get is continual mat wrestling uninterrupted. Personally I think this is much better there is a constant flow, the wrestlers themselves seem more into it as do the audience the atmosphere appears ....no it IS much more intense without rhe action stopping every three minutes sometimes in the middle of an hold. Most I have seen go 30 minutes sometimes even longer really exciting and tremendous value.