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It's Saturday night and you are watching the big championship fight with your buddies. If you're like most fight buffs, you score the fight along with the judges just to see how far off they are when the decision is announced. How many times do you go back and forth on a round that you don't know who to give it to? How do you make your decision? Is it for the guy who did nothing in a round in which nothing happened, but closes the round with a couple jabs for show? I say NO! I don't care about the boxing commissions mandate that forces judges not to score even rounds. They are clueless on everything else, why would we assume they're not just as senseless regarding the scoring of a bout? Forcing judges to chose a winner in each and every round only enhances the possibility of a disputed or unjust decision. A judge could possibly award rounds where he had to split hairs justifying who won for the same fighter thus tilting the bout in favor of one fighter over the other. This is Shameful and worse, it's WRONG !! [details]
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I agree wholeheartedly. It is ridiculous when in one round a boxer wins a 10-9 score because he landed two or three more punches than his opponent and then lose the next round by the same margin when he receives a severe beating and all but falls to the canvas. It isn't fair to the fighters or their fans.
For a boxer to win a 10-9 round, he should have to display superiority over his opponent in those three minutes. He might stun/stagger him, outbox him, outhustle him, or in any other manner prove himself to have imposed his will on his opponent.
A round in where neither fighter gains momentum nor proves to be superior to their opponent should always be scored a draw.
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