How do you rate fighters with close decisions?

**Steak** · 01-30-2011, 11:01 PM

depends. If its close but almost everyone thinks that one fighter won the fight, I give it to them.

If its a controversial close one where the fans are split 50-50 and both guys have fair arugments for winning the fight, I look at it as a draw.

judges dont mean anything to me, I ignore them. Ive seen them screw up far too many times for me to take them seriously.

**BigStereotype** · 01-30-2011, 11:04 PM

Originally posted by blackirish137

depends. If its close but almost everyone thinks that one fighter won the fight, I give it to them.

If its a controversial close one where the fans are split 50-50 and both guys have fair arugments for winning the fight, I look at it as a draw.

judges dont mean anything to me, I ignore them. Ive seen them screw up far too many times for me to take them seriously.

That seems pretty fair.

**Scott9945** · 01-30-2011, 11:25 PM

Originally posted by BigStereotype

Do you go by how you scored the fight or how the judges scored the fight? For example, do you give Oscar credit for a win over Trinidad when you rate him? I'm inclined to go with what I saw and toss out the judges cards because they're so often (in my view) wrong.

It's a question of believing the judges, or my lying eyes. I'll trust what I saw. However De La Hoya blew the Trinidad fight with his chickenspit tactics and I always held that against him.

**SBleeder** · 01-31-2011, 06:32 AM

I actually give the judges the benefit of the doubt, UNLESS it's an absolute robbery (Leonard-Hearns II, Chavez-Whitaker, etc.). Otherwise, it's like rating baseball teams based on my interpretation of balls and strikes. Fighters are only accountable to the judges. I've even read about fighters who try to figure out the tendencies of certain judges, and tailor their game plan based on that.

**Marchegiano** · 01-31-2011, 07:58 AM

I don't put one higher then the other. If it was close then they are just that in skill, and really they both should train up and try again. It happens sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't, but if I ran the sport like some kind of omni-power I'd have all SD's rematch. If it was so close the judges are mixed I feel they ought to see it again. UD are usually more obvious, and I have no problem just telling myself Judges are dumb as **** if they don't pick the obvious. We've all seen the "upset" UD....what ****.

I do have a lot of guys that I simple rank equal which works like **** for a list...

**The Surgeon** · 01-31-2011, 02:25 PM

I just call it like i see it, ive got no responisbilitys to these guys and nobodys paying me for my call so **** it i rate em as i see it.

**TBear** · 01-31-2011, 03:41 PM

Haven't they all had close decisions? I mean if you look at all the all time greats, you usually will find that one win that could have gone the other way.

**BigStereotype** · 01-31-2011, 05:57 PM

Originally posted by TBear

Haven't they all had close decisions? I mean if you look at all the all time greats, you usually will find that one win that could have gone the other way.

Well of course they have. My question is how do you handle those decisions.

How do you rate fighters with close decisions?