Open scoring

[Dan...]

What is everyone's opinion on this?

Personally I think it is ridiculous.

[The Gully Gad]

I hate it...

[KingTito]

I don't like it at all.

[Dan...]

Any ideas on what the point of it is? More transparent scoring? Spectator benefits? I can't see how it achieves any objective that is worth having.

[Shaun Oliver]

open scoring is for quitters

[KnockoutTheFat]

It's ****, but usually when there's open scoring the fight is predicted to be competitive. Not the WBC's fault that the fights they used it in weren't competitive.

[The Gully Gad]

Letting the fighters and the crowd know whos winning i guess lol

Cant stand it!

[Check]

Open scoring is awful. Can't think of any positives to it except that a fighter whos getting his ass kicked could just avoid from getting a further beating. Other than that it sucks. As a fan I enjoy scoring a fight, it also kills the anticipation for a fight, it effects a way a guy would fight if he was way up he would just start avoiding the other fighter. So many bad things about open scoring. No one likes that ****.

[Naps]

Maybe Peter would've carried on fighting without it.

[Dan...]

Good points raised in the above posts. It basically encourages fighters to quit and results in them getting discouraged easier. I know the Peter-Vitali fight doesn't provide a great example given that a ****** could have seen it was a shutout but it could potentially seriously alter the dynamic of a fight, and I don't think that is boxing.