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Originally posted by dan_cov View PostIt must be me.
Surely all these judges can't be corrupt. They can't ALL be paid off. It just has to be me unable to score a fight and not having a clue WTF I'm watching.
Err, this 'sport'.
Thankfully there is no boxing on for a while, saves me the hassle of staying up all night just to sit left feeling like I've been robbed of something.
Think of it in light of another sport: there is a basketball game the Team A is on offense, they execute a perfect backdoor cut, the big man sets a wonderful back screen, they point guard makes a textbook perfect pass, the cutter gets the ball in a perfect position, goes up for a layup...and misses.
Everyone knows no points should be awarded,except for boxing judges. One boxing judges gives them two points for executing all the small things right (AKA Ring Generalship) even though they didn't do what actually mattered to score. Another boxing judge gives two points to the other team because they didn't allow Team A to make a basket (scoring points for defense).
Of course boxing judges support this, because it allows them to have some sort of esoteric superiority (only they are smart enough to recognize those things that should count for scoring). Along those same lines are the pretentiously snobbish boxing fans who can mock others as 'casuals' because all they see are punches landed and don't know how to really score a fight like the smart boxing people.
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Originally posted by DeeMoney View PostIts the ambiguity of the criteria.
Think of it in light of another sport: there is a basketball game the Team A is on offense, they execute a perfect backdoor cut, the big man sets a wonderful back screen, they point guard makes a textbook perfect pass, the cutter gets the ball in a perfect position, goes up for a layup...and misses.
Everyone knows no points should be awarded,except for boxing judges. One boxing judges gives them two points for executing all the small things right (AKA Ring Generalship) even though they didn't do what actually mattered to score. Another boxing judge gives two points to the other team because they didn't allow Team A to make a basket (scoring points for defense).
Of course boxing judges support this, because it allows them to have some sort of esoteric superiority (only they are smart enough to recognize those things that should count for scoring). Along those same lines are the pretentiously snobbish boxing fans who can mock others as 'casuals' because all they see are punches landed and don't know how to really score a fight like the smart boxing people.
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Bad announcers are harming the sport more than bad judges. The announcers are clueless nowadays. And when they get on a narrative they are unwilling to change it.
Anyone who didn’t think that first fight was close misses it.
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Originally posted by kushking View PostYour forgetting 1 important fact, Boxing has set rules that say Defense scores pts(so its nothing like basketball in that regard, where in those sports you mentioned defense is not how youd normally score),& that fighters should be judged based on which fighter is able to do more things well than their opponent (things well being the 4 scoring criteria) ,not just which fighter is able to land the most punches,(though that definitely is the biggest scoring criteria)
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Originally posted by Johnny2x2x View PostBad announcers are harming the sport more than bad judges. The announcers are clueless nowadays. And when they get on a narrative they are unwilling to change it.
Anyone who didn’t think that first fight was close misses it.
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