Comments Thread For: There's Something Evil in Boxing and it Stinks

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By Tris Dixon - THIS column should begin with me telling you how Scotland's Josh Taylor came of age in a huge step-up fight. I should be able to point out how he brilliantly demonstrated things he had not needed to before, how he rallied while in trouble, came through a seventh-round hurricane, took hard shots to the head and body, confronted adversity, adapted and ultimately triumphed...
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[TinAgeOfBoxing]

The WBC is run by a fat, evil, stank a** mofo. This world has been run by shameless, crooked, trash since Babylon.

[stealthradon]

[_Maxi]

I agree totally. They keep doing it... It sucks. Someone should do something. Me, as a fan, they lost me. I won't be watching much boxing at all for the rest of my life.

[AussieStu]

I know this will probably get shouted down, but is there a more pragmatic solution? I’ve often felt watching from ring-side (at much smaller local bouts, I don’t get ringside at title fights!) you actually miss quite a few shots that you see clearly on video afterwards from a better vantage point. I guess what I’m saying is maybe their is a technology solution or perhaps a better location for judges to
score from? Just putting it out there for debate ...

[mind_blown]

Maybe judges need to be younger.. Old people tend to miss some things

[Corelone]

My solution is to give the hometown fighters a few points off the bat. Depending on his popularity, up to 5 points. Taylor gets 5 points from now on, whoever goes to Scotland is going to have to massacre him.

[aboutfkntime]

I agree totally. They keep doing it... It sucks. Someone should do something. Me, as a fan, they lost me. I won't be watching much boxing at all for the rest of my life.

bye

[Scopedog]

I know this will probably get shouted down, but is there a more pragmatic solution? I’ve often felt watching from ring-side (at much smaller local bouts, I don’t get ringside at title fights!) you actually miss quite a few shots that you see clearly on video afterwards from a better vantage point. I guess what I’m saying is maybe their is a technology solution or perhaps a better location for judges to
score from? Just putting it out there for debate ...

I can't remember which sanctioning body is doing it (I'm pretty sure, ironically, that it's the WBC) where they experimented with a new judging system with more judges distributed more evenly around the ring so there's less chance of them missing something. It's got to be better than just having three judges all looking at the same angle, so if they're seated at a bad position and miss something then all three miss it.

In the next ten years or so, however, I believe that fights are going to be at least partially scored by AI. Sounds like science fiction but we're closer to that reality than most people realise. That'll be the ultimate tech solution as it strips all the subjectivity out of the equation, except the subjective interpretation criteria that you feed into its programming. In 2028, instead of the judges being three crusty old former referees with poor eyesight, the judges will be two computers with mobile cameras that travel back and forth on tracks just beyond the ring apron, and one suspended directly above the ring by wires that watches the action from directly above. All three will adjust which fighter they believe is winning the round from moment to moment instead of making their mind up at the end of the fight, and all three will be able to communicate rule infractions that the referee doesn't notice to him by issuing an alert and providing a video replay as evidence that the ref will be able to watch on a handheld device that he'll clip to his belt. A machine will also ring the bell for the beginning and end of the round with laser-precise timing. Once you can teach a machine to watch fights and interpret what it's seeing, all the problems with modern judging end. Of course, all of this nixes the opportunity for washed-up officials with dementia from getting cushy judging appointments to top up their savings in their dotage (as well as the bribes they take from corrupt promoters,) so chances are it'll never happen.

[Letmaku]

Much better in Australia where you are paid handsomely to lose. Three judges plus the refree doing a good job in a subtle hometown robbery.