Is Compubox Full of It?

compubox is in the pros. ididnt say thats how we score in the pros but the networks and historians both use it. read my post before you say im wrong.

thanks for the responses

Mr Thraz.... what you described is how it is done with AMATEUR boxing not in the pro game. You have it wrong

i agree, it often seems theyre way off

The Compubox system is a "computerized" system for counting punches (jabs and power punches, landed and missed). The computerization means that a couple of bozos sit and punch some buttons, and a computer counts the number of times various buttons have been pressed. This must mean that compubox can be grossly inacurate and unreliable. What is your opinion? if compubox mattered b-hop would have won both of the taylor fights by large margins. so i dont know if it would be good or bad if it was a consideration for the judging of a fight.

ah... guys its a little more than that. the computer part comes from a computer hooked up to all six punch counters that the three people hold. they all face a different side of the ring and count punches thrown and punches landed. the computer then trys to see if the guys press the bottens at the same time any two guys pushing the butten within a few millseconds of eachother counts as a punch. so its really about avrage punches, not really every punch thrown and landed. compubox does it the same way exept they have guys there to count jabs and thats all they do, and another set of guys count power punches. anyway its all really cool when you see these guys count, they look really stupid pushing their buttons like thier playing a video game. the problem is people can be bought and people are a part of the system, the answer should be the same in all currupt aspects of boxing... stop having people who are supper rich and have a vested interest in the outcome of the fight appoint officals, just like you should stop promoters from bidding on these fights and effctively becoming the boss of the organistion sactionning the bout.

yes it is full of numbers...yeah but i like to see that kind of stuff ...even if it's BS at times

they should get that shit tennis does.... where they have a computer replay to see where the ball landed. it would be much more effective than anything around.

"Compubox" is retarded, and not "computerized scoring" at all. It's exactly the same thing as three guys sitting there with pen and paper and tallying up the punches. Moreover, they miss half the shots. Maybe somebody could develop software that really did look at the digital feed and count the punches, but it ain't happened yet so it's false advertising to call this "computerized scoring." On another note: I'm not sure how they do it now, but if--and that's a big if--they could get impartial guys to count punches, they should have two sets of three and have each set count the scoring punches landed by one of the fighters. (I've noticed that it's damned hard to count the scoring blows landed by both guys at the same time).

To me, Compubox ranks down there alongside Olympic boxing's computerized scoring. That said, I like it sometimes because I also like a lot of chilli; sometimes.;)

The Compubox system is a "computerized" system for counting punches (jabs and power punches, landed and missed). The computerization means that a couple of bozos sit and punch some buttons, and a computer counts the number of times various buttons have been pressed. This must mean that compubox can be grossly inacurate and unreliable. What is your opinion? judges never see it so it doesnt affect the outcome