The User The Bringer believes Hopkins will be robbed against Calzaghe.

[FRKO]

Anyone think respected ex-fighters would make better judges? How about having people like Lennox Lewis on the panel?

[warp1432]

I think scoring should be redone at ringside. I would have 2 guys watching it at the same angle (the side where you can see the only judge on camera) and then the other watching it on a tv with no commentary.

Something like that so that they wouldn't be able to say they didn't see everything like in Holyfield Lewis 1.

[ßringer]

Anyone think respected ex-fighters would make better judges? How about having people like Lennox Lewis on the panel?

I've suggested this before as well. I'd certainly feel more comfortable in today's game of high stakes fights (such as this one) if the judges were Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr, and Sugar Ray Leonard, than some 60 year old guy from California with glasses.

Aside from that fighters know how to win fights, these judges have probably never even been in one.

[warp1432]

I guess, but you have fighters like Ray Mancini who are incredibly biasis to a certain style of fighting.

[215Chaingang]

Sweet, always nice to meet another Philadelphia fight fan on here

yeah, the boul sekondsout and kayjay is philly too. kayjay be on here drawin sometimes. you should check the bouls on youtube they got a joint called GuardyourGrillBoxing on there and they from philly

[FRKO]

I've suggested this before as well. I'd certainly feel more comfortable in today's game of high stakes fights (such as this one) if the judges were Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr, and Sugar Ray Leonard, than some 60 year old guy from California with glasses.

Aside from that fighters know how to win fights, these judges have probably never even been in one.

Exactly man, most of those guys look like random old bums they pulled off the street corner. There would be far fewer bad decisions if the people who were scoring were the kind of people who know exactly how it is inside a boxing ring. I don't understand why we don't have respected guys on the panel. Respected fighters, ex and current, these are what it needs. I'm sure they would enjoy doing it and getting paid for it too.

The boxing business is shady as ****.

[warp1432]

Like I said you have certain fighters being incredibly biasis to the style they like fighting as.

EX:
Ray Mancini would always favor the agressor

[215Chaingang]

long as they don't have foreman and lennox it will be cool

[FRKO]

long as they don't have foreman and lennox it will be cool

Lennox is a legend man, super cool guy.

[ßringer]

Like I said you have certain fighters being incredibly biasis to the style they like fighting as.

EX:
Ray Mancini would always favor the agressor

That's a problem as well. I'm sure Sugar Ray Leonard would also favor the guy who's flashier, hits and moves, that kind of thing.

So I'm not really sure how to solve the problem of **** judges, it's a multi-dimensional problem.