Scale of 1-10, how accurate do u find Harold Letterman??

[rambov]

I like when he starts off with "ok Jim".

[Fox McCloud]

I like when he starts off with "ok Jim".

I wish I had a ringtone of when he reads the, "Unified rules of the association of BOXING commissions!!! There is NO three knockdown rule, ONLY the referee can stop the fight, in case a cut is caused by ACCIDENTAL headbutt, we go to the scorecards after FOUR rounds have been completed, and the you cannot be saved by the bell in ANY round, including, the twelfth and final round. JIM!!!" God that part of every fight is so ****ing money.

[BmoreBrawler]

I dunno, sometimes I just love him and the whole HBO crew, and sometimes its just like they all decided what to say before the fight started including the fight outcome and keep parroting the same **** (DLH/Mayweather, only Manny Steward was doing real analysis).

[drh]

no good. 2/10.

i can't believe he gave the first round to trinidad in the hopkins fight....

[Fox McCloud]

no good. 2/10.

i can't believe he gave the first round to trinidad in the hopkins fight....

That's another one where I was like what the **** is going on here?

[brently1979]

He's not perfect, but he's a **** load better than a lot the judges working today. I think if we had 3 Lettermans judging fights there would be far less poor decisions. I give him a 8.5.

[brently1979]

I wish I had a ringtone of when he reads the, "Unified rules of the association of BOXING commissions!!! There is NO three knockdown rule, ONLY the referee can stop the fight, in case a cut is caused by ACCIDENTAL headbutt, we go to the scorecards after FOUR rounds have been completed, and the you cannot be saved by the bell in ANY round, including, the twelfth and final round. JIM!!!" God that part of every fight is so ****ing money.

Very Funny. I was thinking the same thing.

[DiEgO_cHiCo_CoRRaLeS]

below 1 ... He doesnt know ****

[OptimusWolf]

I'd give Harold a 9-9.5. There are very few rounds that Harrold and I actually disagree on. When I watch a fight that he's judging, I notice that once every two or three fights we will have a round or two that we don't score the same but, most of the time, we end up with the same score and the same rounds to the same fighters.

Maybe it's because I've grown up watching him and my judging style was learned from him? Who knows, but the fact of the matter is that judging is totally subjective. Some judges score more for clean, less hard-hitting punches than they do for hard, thumping punches that don't connect so cleanly. Others rank aggressiveness, even if not effective, above ring generalship (I think that ring generalship is very important, second only to clean punching).

I rank the criteria thusly:

Clean Punching
Ring Generalship
Effective Aggressiveness
Defense

In the end, tho, the way I usually determine who wins a round is by imagining that I have to be in one of the fighter's shoes in the round that just ended. The fighter that I'd rather be obviously won the round as I wouldn't want to be the guy who got hit more or did worse.

Can I just say - what a ****ing good post.

[BK Saddizzle]

the guy is off probably 60 % of the time. By far the most accurate scoring ive seen is from teddy atlas on espn fights

Amen to that!! Truth is these trainers (Emmanual Stewart & Teddy Atlas) give a more detailed & all around clearer/unbiased score than the commentators or Harold!