Comments Thread For: WBC Open Scoring System Makes an Impact

[titan m]

WBC has used this over a year abd a half, it's ok...the 1 thing I don't like is they don't announce the judges names , only Judge A, B, or C, so if someq1is off the crowd does know which judge....it's a sight better than Ledderman's often ridiculous scoring, as the 1st Pac/Tim bout he has it 11-0 after 11...

It doesn't matter which judge turned in what score during the fight, it doesn't affect the fight but announcing the scores does. It changes the fighters game plan knowing how far ahead or behind they are and can ruin a good fight.

Everybody will find how each judge scored it after the fight, not like it really matters anyway, people will cry about how terrible judges are then watch the fight 3 or 4 times themselves and score it different every time. A lot of guys here cry about judges and cant come up with one concrete score for a fight themselves.

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

Is this a WBC press release or a real article? Hard to tell.

Open scoring is gay

[JDD1]

I am not a fan of open scoring.

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

How????? So rather trout carry on as he was?? losing the fight??

I like open scoring because stops the excuse "I thought I was winning"

trout was in that fight, problem was the judges were giving it to canelo no matter what and open scoring only made canelo stand off and not do anything for the last 4 rounds. and the judges STILL gave canelo rounds. boxing is about going off instinct, if a fighter thinks hes winning and falls back then that's on him ala de la hoya/Trinidad. I see where people think it can be a good idea but so far it has shown to be a bad one. especially if its a canelo/trout type situation where a KO is the only way one side can win

[iniduoh]

Open scoring sucks ass and so does the WBC.

[..David..]

As many here have said

OPEN SCORING SUCKS !!

[-=Shade=-]

Are you joking? In what was pretty much a dead-even fight after 8, which should have had both guys trying their hardest to close the show, two judges had made it impossible for Trout to win on the cards. Alvarez stopped fighting, and Trout had no way of winning a fight a lot of people thought he did win.

Open scoring completely ruined that fight.

Personally I think Open Scoring could be great if you did it at the 1/4 mark and 1/2 mark rounded up, or just at the 1/2 mark in fights < 8 rounds. That way you know what the judges are seeing (or smoking), but you aren't written out of the fight (barring early knockdowns, etc).

So:
- in a 12 round fight you'd get the score at the end of the 3rd and 6th.
- in a 10 round fight you'd get the score at the end of the 3rd and 5th.
- in a 8 round fight you'd get the score at the end of the 2nd and 4th.
- in a less than 8 rounder you'd get the score at the half way point, rounded up (if for some odd reason you ended up in a fight with an odd number of rounds).

That way, barring knockdowns or deductions, a person would never be 100% safe on the cards, and it would let people know where the judges are at.