How would you score this?

[damit305]

Fighter A would get the judges benefit if this would occur early in the fight.
Late in the fight judges would tend to favor fighter B.

[Pez]

hmm.. you talking about Bradley-Provodnikov, or??

No just in general.

But this question does spring from an argument I had with my dad when we were watching a fight. I forgot which one it was but after the round ended, a commentator said something like "I had Fighter A winning up until that point" during a replay when Fighter A got hurt in a round he was winning. My dad, a fan of power punchers, agreed and I argued how hurting your opponent doesn't automatically win you the round you were losing.

I wanted to get other people's take on it.

[Pez]

But you can't think of this in the context of simply one round. Think about if the whole fight progressed this way. Every round, fighter B starts out slowly and gets beat, then finally scores a big punch at the end of the round. But every round, fighter A comes back out fresh and starts pounding B again. There's no way you'd award B the victory of that fight. Does anyone picture fighter B as Chavez Jr?

That scorecard would be insanely inaccurate of what really happened. It would be a shutout on paper but a close fight when watching it.

[Furn]

Depends but I'd go with B, for me the main goal in boxing is to hurt your opponent and if you have a guy wobbled and really hurt that gets you the round.

[Da Machine]

Kind of confused about your scenario. You said fighter A was winning clearly, then you said he was just holding his own and edging it out.

If fighter A was winning clearly then he still gets the rd.

If fighter A was just edging it out, then he loses the rd.

[boliodogs]

If he was clearly losing the round but not by that much and in the last 15 seconds he hurts the guy very badly then 9 out of ten judges are going to give him that round.

[Ringlife]

I would give it to the B fighter. I always score fights and I always think about who would have I wanted to be in that round.