I do Not understand Scoring in boxing anymore?

**BmoreBrawler** · 12-10-2007, 06:21 PM

Scoring is a mess, they need to rewrite the rules of scoring. If these rules were real laws they would be unconstitutionally vague.

**jai mari078** · 12-10-2007, 06:24 PM

Originally posted by col.maybourne

Watching the mayweather v hatton fight, on HBO, harold lettermen had hatton down by 2 or 3 points, by round 10 i can not remember exactly. He won the first 4 or 5 rounds losing only 1 according to lettermen.

I then downloaded a sky box office, copy and guess what??

They also had hatton losing the fight by a 2 or 3 points, they gave an extra round to mayweather than hbo, the round being the 1st.

No lets compare the two only original footages of the fight to the actual scoring.

89-91, 89-81, 88-82

Can anyone please explain why the media guys were scoring the fight different to the real judges, who the hell is right.

The same thing happened in floyds fight against de la hoya, where we have several different scoring ideas, their isnt one consensus on who actually even won that fight.

Now if the hatton fight went to the full 12 rounds and the points decision was given there is no way hatton could have won unless he knocked floyd out. But hbo or sky could have given hatton the fight, i for one would not have been a happy viewer?

I agree. This didn't en up mattering, but had this gone 12 rounds Floyd still probably would have won, but at the time of the stoppage I had Mayweather up by 2 points. The wide margin the judges had at the time of the stoppage was ridiculous.

**Knicksman20** · 12-10-2007, 06:28 PM

I thought the Lederman card was terrible & one of the worst he's scored. If I was a casual fan of boxing I could see HBO swaying my opinion of the fight & the action. A few of the rounds were close that you could've gave to Hatton but to me the only definitive round that I thought belonged to Hatton was & couldn't be disputed was the 5th. While watching it I only scored 2 rounds for Hatton.

**lyrical** · 12-10-2007, 06:31 PM

To be honest i think sky and HBO were hating on Mayweather and they really was rooting for Hatton. I gave Hatton 2 rounds

**Sttuddahboy619** · 12-10-2007, 07:17 PM

I don't know what fight Harold was watching???

**jamesc** · 12-10-2007, 07:27 PM

im english and i hate to say it but i only had hatton taking 2 rounds maybe 3...

**ThaHorseman** · 12-10-2007, 07:28 PM

The fact is that too many people let their bias influence their scoring. Lederman on the other hand is just a complete joke. Judges are piad to be impartial and 99% of the time they get it right. I'll take their expertise over a TV analyst assigned to cover boxing or a boxingscener.

**Scott9945** · 12-10-2007, 07:34 PM

Lederman ALWAYS scores more for the aggressor, whether he is effective or not. If they are thinking about replacing Merchant, they should get started replacing Harold as well.

**tills9191** · 12-10-2007, 10:36 PM

the whole thing is a joke., i thought de la hoya won the fight with floyd,and every1 's opinion seems to vary so much.
they should stick to 1 judge.

I do Not understand Scoring in boxing anymore?