I think pro boxing needs to go to open scoring

[jaded]

You can't remove corruption when the sport is run by corruption. It will never change.

[blowblow]

GTFOH. You aren't even a boxing fan. What a ****ing tard.

you may go first

[GrandpaBernard]

Open Scoring just lets the fighters know theyre getting ****ed already. Canelo/Trout was open scoring. Didn't help one bit.

Lol yep open scoring can even be used to revise history

blind fanboys pushing the narrative that their gifted guy really won

[GrandpaBernard]

Boxing is in the Stone Age when it comes to improving its systems

[HrNY]

Folks dig down deeper when they know they're losing and need to do something to try and get the victory(If Lebron James couldn't see the score of the game, you think he would've tracked down Iguodala and saved his team a bucket with that incredible block).

Boxing definitely should do this and try to offer something new to draw fans.

Boxing just can't get anyone new to give a dam about such a pathetic sport

[HrNY]

Fight till a KO/TKO

If it goes all 12 then it's a draw, then got to reschedule and do an immediate rematch or else get that draw switched to an L someone doesn't want to run it back.

[billeau2]

Go balls to the wall for a knockout. Isn't that better than a guy coasting thinking he's way ahead and then getting ****ed on the cards. Don't you think Mykal Fox steps on the gas and goes for the KO the other night if he knows the judges aren't giving him rounds?

What if your a fighter that does not fight in that style and your fighting a big puncher? See... there are two archetypical concepts engendered in professional prize fighting that are strictly not part of amatuer fighting. Having a 3 round contest, trying to land the most conventional punches is like playing checkers, when compared to professional fighting (chess).

The one concept is that of combat, a fighter, who is not necessarily even an athlete. The other concept is the game... the scoring, strategies, etc. Which make boxing a sport. More and more boxing is becoming a sport at the expense of fighting... this includes skills and strategies used.

the skill in the professional game happens when fighters are allowed to use their style to the most advantageous extent... I gave an example regarding Torrez and the Gold Medal fight contest: In professional prize fighting a smaller, more active man, has plenty of time to break down a bigger opponent. In the Olympics a bigger fighter just has to go for 3 rounds and land more.

Imagine if Bowe versus Holyfield happened in the Olympics: No body shots to wear a fighter down for later... No need to pace oneself... Bowe would just bully Holly for three rounds, while they traded head hunting shots... Hollyfield would be at a great disadvantage.

Open scoring ultimately has the effect of changing boxing to a more limited pursuit where fighters will fight more and more like amatuers, which is what has happened over the years anyway. Seldom do we see fighters like Toney, Hopkins, Fury, with skills and strategies designed to fight to win in 12 rounds. open scoring makes boxing into a limited pursuit, pleasing the judges instead of setting out to win the fight using body punches for later, drawing the opponent into deep water, and slipping punches so masterfully that they look like they landed and did not, etc.

We need better judging, real punch stats with equipment that registers clean punches, and no special interests...