Does Compubox matter?

[Larry the boss]

I see posters use it when it fits their agenda and this dismiss it when it doesnt...

[satiev1]

Compubox does matter most of the time. The guys using compubox have no agenda or bias. They just do their job unlike emotional fans.

[-PBP-]

I only pay attention to the punches thrown because it tells who was more active.

The punches landed is no better than a CJ Ross scorecard

[daggum]

hmm theres this guy named barry and he uses compubox as a reason floyd won but then in ward kovalev he has ward winning and never mentions compubox. have you met him larry?

[mathed]

Apparently not because Kov had a heavy edge over coWard and a KD yet Ward won a UD. He landed more total punches and more power punches as well as outlanded coWard in 7 out of 12 rounds.

So yeah, Compubox doesn't appear to count for schit sometimes.......just sayin.

http://www.boxingscene.com/andre-ward-vs-sergey-kovalev-compubox-punch-stats--110941

[Mammoth]

Maybe only when showing punches landed round by round

[Redd Foxx]

I think it's helpful when used in a vague context. For instance, seeing if someone is historically accurate, defensive, etc. It does not tell you who won a fight though. Some fail to understand that.

[daggum]

Compubox does matter most of the time. The guys using compubox have no agenda or bias. They just do their job unlike emotional fans.

well they do a pretty bad job as after the fight when fights are reviewed with more tools and more time the compubox numbes are always off and strangely they seem to be off in favor of the a-side guy. floyd landed 60 more punchs than pac....where??? he was throwing jabs at air or pacs glovs and they conted as punches. kov beats up ward and outlands him by far and yet compubox barely has him winning. calzaghe hits air all night and yet he landed 220 punches? where were they? maybe the a-side operator has parkinsons or something

[daggum]

I think it's helpful when used in a vague context. For instance, seeing if someone is historically accurate, defensive, etc. It does not tell you who won a fight though. Some fail to understand that.

if the numbers are wrong how does that tell you who is historically better?

[Eff Pandas]

Of course it matters. But its not the only thing that matters in a fight & more importantly in scoring a fight with how the rules of boxing work.

I will say I think power punches landed matter more than any other compubox number. Generally you can come up with the winner probably 90%+ of the time just by looking who landed more power punches in excess of 3-5 shots in more rounds within the margin of error with the rounds not in excess of 3-5 punches anyway. Even though "power punches" is a bs term since its basically just any non-jab punch of course. It still seems to be the compubox stat that translates into winning rounds with judges more than any other.