Whatever happened to the idea of CUMULATIVE SCORING?

[gnostic19]

I thought it was a good idea. I remeber there was a high profile fight where they used this scoring technique and the results wound up a bit out of sorts and this resulted in the concept being ditched, i believe, but i think for the most part it is based on good theory.
If 2 of the 3 judges give one fighter a 10-9 round then that fighter wins the round 10-9 on the cumulative card...the one and only card that matters in the final scoring. If one judge scores it 1`0-9 for fighter A and teh otehr 10-9 for fighter B and the third 10-10 then the round is scored 10-10 on teh cumulative card.

[moochi]

**** man we are talkin about corruption, not fairness in judging!

[gnostic19]

I figured that if cumulative scoring ahd been used in the barrera juarez fight it would have wound up a draw before the "recalculation" and a Barrerra victory after. Goes to show that in a close fight it still stands up to critique.

[Guest]

Very interesting thread, good topic for discussion.

[gnostic19]

Then lets discuss...

[Guest]

Then lets discuss...

Sorry, I didn't really have anything to say on it at this moment, but wanted to let you know I thought it was a good one. I hit you up with K too.

[Kball15]

i think it should be used. its more fair. this way one judge can ruin it for everyone. I think the big time fights should use this method, to avoid corruption.

[gnostic19]

i think it should be used. its more fair. this way one judge can ruin it for everyone. I think the big time fights should use this method, to avoid corruption.

I'm sure the egomaniacal judges would be against it...seeing that it would de-personalize the scoring, to a degree.