title bout - 15 rounds

Don't believe the hype: Ford's round 12 didn't make the difference I posted something similar a while ago and it got merged into a dead thread, so I'm posting this again. Maybe it will get merged to, I don't know. The thing is that everyone is harping one the scoring of one specific round by one judge. Well, you know what, have a look at the scorecards, I can find at least a few instances where Hopkins got rounds that he probably shouldn't have, the worst offenders being rounds 3 and 4 on Roth's scorecard. I'm sure you could find a few cases where Taylor won a debatable round elsewhere as well. The fact is that focusing on one score and saying that that made the difference is just silly. The only reason people are doing this is because it was the last round of the fight. If the bad score happened somewhere in the middle, nobody would even have noticed. The thing is that boxing isn't ping-pong: the goal is to beat your opponent, not out-score them. The scores end up being used to determine a winner when the fight goes the distance. They are decided by fallible human beings. That's why there are three of them. Fights are scored round-by-round so a more even-handed result is determined. With three judges scoring twelve rounds each score is worth 1/36th of the score. The fact is that each fighter will win a few rounds on a few scorecards that he shouldn't have won. Errors are inevitable, so to pick one specific mistake and jump all over it is to ignore the mathematics that go into the entire system.