5 or 7 Judges Per TitleFight

[Who are you?]

As a life-long boxing fan, I can't help but notice one of the biggest problems with boxing is bad decisions. Bad decisions, robberies, shoddy scoring. As boxing fans we accept this, but we should not. Let's take a look at some recent robberies, bad decisions, and iffy decisions. Titlefights are bolded.

Some recent outright robberies and bad decisions:

Andriy Kotelnik L 12 Devon Alexander
(I had Kotelnik winning 8 rounds to 4. Hometown Robbery clearly.)

Francisco Palacios L 12 Kris Wlodarczyk
(No way in hell Wlodarczyk won this fight.)

Daniel Ponce de Leon L 10 Adrien Broner
(non title fight, no way did Broner win)

Sergio Martinez D 12 Kermit Cintron
(What the Fcuk? This scoring was absurd, Martinez won easy)

Jesus Soto Karass L 10 Mike Jones
(Karass won this fight 7 rounds to 3. Even a draw is unacceptable)

Jose Santa Cruz L 12 Joel Casamayor
(Cruz won the fight easily, was robbery of the year in 2007)

Some recent "iffy" decisions which could have went either way:

Julio Chavez Jr. W 12 Sebastian Zbik
(I scored the fight a draw, but if I had to pick a winner I'd go Zbik)

Isaac Chilemba W 10 Maxim Vlasov
(Thought Vlasov won. Chilemba was down three times in the fight)

George Groves W 12 James DeGale
(Many differing opinions on the fight however)

Mikkel Kessler W 12 Carl Froch
(Could have just as easily went the other way)

Jean Pascal D 12 Bernard Hopkins
(I thought Pascal won. Some thought Hopkins won. In any case, more judges would lead to more accurate scoring)

Bernard Hopkins W 12 Jean Pascal
(I thought the fight was a draw)

Solution to Bad Officiating

Is more judges. 3 Judges is too much room for errors and bias within the scoring. Judges for titlefights are chosen based on their membership within a sanctioning body (ie IBF, WBO, WBA, WBC). So instead of choosing 3 judges per fight, and paying them an individual per fight salary. Why doesn't the IBF, WBO, WBA, and WBC simply employ 7 judges throughout the year to judge ALL titlefights?

Essentially, Im saying that each title organization should have a roster of 7 titlefight judges, who are used in every titlefight of that organization and paid an annual salary.

This approach is feasible, would probably save the organizations money since the salary is done on an annual bulk basis, instead of a per-fight contract. It keeps costs down and obviously, more judges will lead to fairer, more accurate scorecards.

7 Judges will ALWAYS give a better score than 3 Judges.
7 Judges is feasible for titlefights and may actually save money if done properly.

[S H A R K B O Y]

Because there could be conflict of interests as far as picking 7 judges to judge all title fights.

[Who are you?]

7 Judges is entirely feasible, there is no conflict of interests whatsoever.

In fact, it may actually save money in the longterm, because you could pay an annual salary as opposed to a per-fight salary.

Also, different judges can be chosen per year, or perhaps even rotationally.

Either way, 7 Judges will certainly give a good score.

Boxing is the only sport which relies on such a small number of judges. Other subjective sports such as Figure Skating use 10 judges.

[McFearless]

its a good idea but i think if the case is shady judges, corruption, hometown decisions etc no number of judges will change that and it'll just be counter productive plus more $$ for more judges

lol imagine at the end of fights when they read all the judges scores? thats like 10 minutes of just reading scores, the fighters wouldve died from the suspense on a close one by the time they announced the winner

[Who are you?]

Accuracy of 7 Judges will always be greater than Accuracy of 3 Judges

This will help the sport, and reduce ****ty decisions.

[McFearless]

7 Judges is entirely feasible, there is no conflict of interests whatsoever.

In fact, it may actually save money in the longterm, because you could pay an annual salary as opposed to a per-fight salary.

Also, different judges can be chosen per year, or perhaps even rotationally.

Either way, 7 Judges will certainly give a good score.

Boxing is the only sport which relies on such a small number of judges. Other subjective sports such as Figure Skating use 10 judges.

good way to look at it!

[S H A R K B O Y]

Accuracy of 7 Judges will always be greater than Accuracy of 3 Judges

This will help the sport, and reduce ****ty decisions.

Not the same 7 judges for all bouts. For a sport you love so much, you must not know about the corruption in it.

[Manny#1ATG]

Pascal-Hopkins 2 was even on scorecards into maybe the 8th...after that BHop straight took over and had his way him like a canadian hockey goalie...

[Scary]

For me this would make boxing a better sport. Great idea!

[Who are you?]

For me this would make boxing a better sport. Great idea!

Yes certainly.

As a boxing fan, Ive seen so many bad decisions its about time this idea comes to fruition. Its entierly feasible and realistic. Its just a matter or doing it.