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I've got a weird-arse way of scoring, but I don't care. I look for busyness and high activity. If fighter A lands 4 clean punches going backwards and does nothing else, whilst fighter B is throwing constantly but not landing cleanly much - I'm still going to score a round for the latter. Calzaghe-Hopkins springs to mind automatically. If you have one guy hugging constantly and throwing one punch per round, whilst the other is slapping around and moving... well, I know who gets my kudos.
On the other hand I can fully appreciate a crafty Mayweather or Marquez who can be content to backpedal whilst throwing accurate counters and potshots, but someone like Cotto who just looks fruity going on his bike doesn't impress me much. Even if the guy is landing shots on Cotto's gloves, I'm still scoring them as landed if Cotto is barely doing anything himself. :laff2:
As for KDs, I'm a firm stickler to the replay advantage. If I see something the ref doesn't, I'm still scoring it appropriately. Such as with Agbeko against Darchinyan - the former did not suffer a legit KD, but the ref blindly ruled it as official. Fuck it, I'm right and he's wrong. The judges should be able to make their own mind up and overrule the ref if something is that obvious.
When it comes to double KDs in a round, I've only recently re-evaluated my logic on it. It's mucho tricky ****! A good example is that crazy opening round of Maidana-Ortiz - as far as I saw it, Maidana just about won that round. So, with both fighters having gone down, I scored it 9-8 for Maidana. I used to think it should be 8-8 on a double KD, but it seems as though there has to be a round winner. I can sort of understand, but it's a grey area if anything else.
Even trickier still, is when the clear round winner suffers a last-second KD of his own. Cotto-Clottey being a great example - I thought Clottey had done convincingly enough to win the round, but then gets dropped. As per routine, I ended up scoring it 10-8 for Cotto, but in hindsight I think it should've been 9-9. However, no rules are clear on that kind of thing happening. So 10-8 it is, as unfair as that may be.
On the other hand I can fully appreciate a crafty Mayweather or Marquez who can be content to backpedal whilst throwing accurate counters and potshots, but someone like Cotto who just looks fruity going on his bike doesn't impress me much. Even if the guy is landing shots on Cotto's gloves, I'm still scoring them as landed if Cotto is barely doing anything himself. :laff2:
As for KDs, I'm a firm stickler to the replay advantage. If I see something the ref doesn't, I'm still scoring it appropriately. Such as with Agbeko against Darchinyan - the former did not suffer a legit KD, but the ref blindly ruled it as official. Fuck it, I'm right and he's wrong. The judges should be able to make their own mind up and overrule the ref if something is that obvious.
When it comes to double KDs in a round, I've only recently re-evaluated my logic on it. It's mucho tricky ****! A good example is that crazy opening round of Maidana-Ortiz - as far as I saw it, Maidana just about won that round. So, with both fighters having gone down, I scored it 9-8 for Maidana. I used to think it should be 8-8 on a double KD, but it seems as though there has to be a round winner. I can sort of understand, but it's a grey area if anything else.
Even trickier still, is when the clear round winner suffers a last-second KD of his own. Cotto-Clottey being a great example - I thought Clottey had done convincingly enough to win the round, but then gets dropped. As per routine, I ended up scoring it 10-8 for Cotto, but in hindsight I think it should've been 9-9. However, no rules are clear on that kind of thing happening. So 10-8 it is, as unfair as that may be.
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