Adalaide Byrd: I dont agree with a 10-10 round

[nico_akia]

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[Bodyshot3]

An absurd, deeply controversial individual who I would not trust to judge or accurately mark the qualities of a cheese and pickle sandwich.....

.....I believe even the MMA chancers/charlatans often find her decisions imbecillic and perplexing as well. And that's saying something!!

Serious Question/suggestion - the WBA/WBC/IBF/WBO should train, encourage and pay top-level ex-fighters who need the work and who have the expertise to call fights to do the judging instead.

I am amazed by the fact that we have all this knowledge at our finger-tips, but employ people like Byrd instead.

[El Angel]

"Do you go for quantity or quality punches?"

"In my opinion quantity usually outweighs quality"

And she scored Hopkins over Calzaghe.

I think she came across pretty good though.
Sounds smarter than i would have thought.

She seriously said that? And I consider her one of the good ones. These are our judges folks.

[deanrw]

She sounds like an idiot. She has been judging fights for a while and she can't give us one solid fact on how to judge a fight, instead opting for phrases such as "in my experience". It's as if there is no set standard on how to judge a fight and it just depends what one particular judge feels like. She proves this by saying "I never score 10 - 10"... notice the "I".... what the hell do you mean "I"... surely there should be one rule on how to score and judge fights that all officials abide to.... what a mickey mouse operation, it turns out judges make up their own rules of scoring dependent on their mood.

That is because there isn't a true way to score a fight. It is all a matter of personal preference. Should more punches thrown and landed actually win a round? Not Necessarily. Those punches could be ineffective.

For me, when I watch a round, and then I place together who I feel was the more successful fighter. By more successful, I mean the fighter who I felt was able to do more of what their intent was. To me who ever comes out of the round who was more effective with what they were trying to do takes it. I basically score it be selecting the fighter who I would have preferred to have been in that round.