Tweet
For boxing to continue to go from strength to strength. We need a continually improving image of legitimacy. And this is only going to happen with more harsh penalties for poor judges.
Lets face it. Inconsistent scoring is one of the main problems in boxing today, if not the main problem.
Judges are constantly making mistakes. Or maybe there not mistakes, maybe they have favourite fighters just like us and thats why the scoring is so inaccurate. Or worse, what many people fear maybe they are paid.
We here all the time of bad judging of a fight. But then we don't hear a single thing after that. There needs to be some kind of public recognition within the sport, when a judge can be criticised. There also needs to be a system where judges are planned long ways in advance, and we can see that judges get sacked for poor judging to make the future fights legitimate.
E.G Cricket. When an umpire gives bad decisions. He is dropped for the next game/series. And people are told this by the ICC, or whatever institution.
Thats what we need in boxing.
I look at fights like Floyd vs Castillo, De La Hoya vs Mosley. And i just can't think how they score the way they do. But there are a lot worse fights being scored than these.
I watched a replay of Mundine vs Green. And for some reasons a judge scored it 116-113. In a fight blatently obvious, that Green only won 1 round or 2 max. Also secondly Mundine vs Clavero. Judges had it 29-28 after 3. When it was clear Clavero couldn't hit a dog and was being severly dominated. I just use Mundine references because as you know hes one of my favourite fighters, and you pay attention just as many others do to there favourite fighters. And then against Kessler how did Hank Mejers score it 120-108 when the other judges scored it 116-112.
We need to establish legitimacy. Make public news, of sacking judges for poor performances. Because compared to other sports, were struggling to gain legitimacy.
Lets face it. Inconsistent scoring is one of the main problems in boxing today, if not the main problem.
Judges are constantly making mistakes. Or maybe there not mistakes, maybe they have favourite fighters just like us and thats why the scoring is so inaccurate. Or worse, what many people fear maybe they are paid.
We here all the time of bad judging of a fight. But then we don't hear a single thing after that. There needs to be some kind of public recognition within the sport, when a judge can be criticised. There also needs to be a system where judges are planned long ways in advance, and we can see that judges get sacked for poor judging to make the future fights legitimate.
E.G Cricket. When an umpire gives bad decisions. He is dropped for the next game/series. And people are told this by the ICC, or whatever institution.
Thats what we need in boxing.
I look at fights like Floyd vs Castillo, De La Hoya vs Mosley. And i just can't think how they score the way they do. But there are a lot worse fights being scored than these.
I watched a replay of Mundine vs Green. And for some reasons a judge scored it 116-113. In a fight blatently obvious, that Green only won 1 round or 2 max. Also secondly Mundine vs Clavero. Judges had it 29-28 after 3. When it was clear Clavero couldn't hit a dog and was being severly dominated. I just use Mundine references because as you know hes one of my favourite fighters, and you pay attention just as many others do to there favourite fighters. And then against Kessler how did Hank Mejers score it 120-108 when the other judges scored it 116-112.
We need to establish legitimacy. Make public news, of sacking judges for poor performances. Because compared to other sports, were struggling to gain legitimacy.
Comment