Comments Thread For: How to improve boxing judging with 'Deliberate Practice'

[BoxingUpdates]

Tom Schreck ponders if you can become a better boxing by applying the principles of deliberate practice
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[Nightfall]

Judges already have it in their minds to cheat for whatever reason and it will continue

[TheOneAboveAll]

Judges already have it in their minds to cheat for whatever reason and it will continue

Judges just want to cheat? That’s the reason for the **** decisions? Nothing at all to do with the asinine 10-pt Must System or the 4 competing scoring criteria?

[Old Spice]

Put judges in tennis umpire chairs higher above the ring so they can see all of the ring for starters. It's crazy they sit obstructed from the majority of the ring and this accepted.

[DonJunker]

Put judges in tennis umpire chairs higher above the ring so they can see all of the ring for starters. It's crazy they sit obstructed from the majority of the ring and this accepted.

Great thought. So logical nobody is thinking about it. Breadman has suggested 5 judges with one of those watching on a screen without sound, if I remember correctly. But I’ve never heard anybody suggest elevation which indeed is crazy

[ELPacman]

Put judges in tennis umpire chairs higher above the ring so they can see all of the ring for starters. It's crazy they sit obstructed from the majority of the ring and this accepted.

I'm not sure being higher up necessarily means you can see everything. Especially all the various angles. If anything, I think the body will get in the way often restricting view. Granted it would happen sitting lower too, but I guess that's why they have 3 at different angles.

What I think needs to be done is that you put a judge on the SPOT, right there after the fight, to explain his reasoning to the audience of how he came to his score. Whether you make all judges explain it or just the asinine scores. By putting them on the spot and having to explain why they gave the score they did, you'll get inside their head to understand how they think while watching the fight. Then you know whether they're a competent judge or not and if you want to call them back to score a future fight. I honestly think this would let you weed out a lot of bad judges.

[daggum]

we must defer to compubox the most accurate scoring system ever devised. if you thinki its wrong...you are wrong!

[TheProudLunatic]

Put them in separate rooms (that are wired for vid and sound)
Give them a big HD TV and remote to pause/rewind

As it is, they have the worst seats in the house

The end.

[saliu54]

I think the judges should be assigned different duties at the end all scores should be tallied to get the winner

[Pharlapz]

Great thought. So logical nobody is thinking about it. Breadman has suggested 5 judges with one of those watching on a screen without sound, if I remember correctly. But I’ve never heard anybody suggest elevation which indeed is crazy

Hall of Fame referee Joe Cortez proposed the elevated judges seats idea a number of years ago. It’s not crazy, just impractical at a boxing venue. Breadman’s 5 judges idea is a step in the right direction.