What's your opinion on people that use compubox to score rounds?

[famicommander]

All stats require context to have meaning. All punches are not equal.

[KillaCamNZ]

CompuBox has its flaws, but lord knows the official system does too - 70 year old alzheimers patients trying to watch fights through their cataracts.

[daggum]

its not accurate so why would you do that? in round 3 of pac-floyd it said floyd landed 11 power punches...cept he landed zero. a couple hit pacs glove so i guess thats a power shot according to piece of crap system.

[The Big Dunn]

I think compubox shouldn’t be used to score a fight but can be used after the fact as a guage if how you scored the round.

Let’s say you score the round 10-9 for Canelo. After the fight you see compubox has canelo outlanding the opponent by 8 punches. You can feel reasonably comfortable in how you scored the round.

Now if you score the round for Canelo 10-9 and you go back and see the opponent outlanded him by 12 punches, then you can see how you might have made an error.

The one thing you cane never do is use total punches counted by compubox to say a fighter won the fight because fights are not scored by punches but by rounds.

[W1LL]

If you've watched Boxing regularly for more than 6-12 months, you'll know that Compubox numbers are always way off. Just another tool for the networks to make the house fighter look more dominant than they really were. Have literally watched fights where the house fighter gets +1 for punches that don't land, or when they don't even throw punches. Then the away fighter will land a 3-4-5 punch combo and get +1. Only a complete moron, or a total noob, would take it seriously.

[Ganondorf]

You must score rounds by the action you see with your eyes only.

Compubox punchstats are handy only sometimes when arguing why you scored a fight a certain way. IMO

Sometimes they are not even good for that.

[Marchegiano]

Using punch count to score rounds means you don't know how to score most of what boxing actually is. Boxing is posture fighting

[aboutfkntime]

I think compubox shouldn’t be used to score a fight but can be used after the fact as a guage if how you scored the round.

Let’s say you score the round 10-9 for Canelo. After the fight you see compubox has canelo outlanding the opponent by 8 punches. You can feel reasonably comfortable in how you scored the round.

Now if you score the round for Canelo 10-9 and you go back and see the opponent outlanded him by 12 punches, then you can see how you might have made an error.

The one thing you cane never do is use total punches counted by compubox to say a fighter won the fight because fights are not scored by punches but by rounds.

this is what I am talking about

who says that you made an " error "... ?

why would you automatically assume that you made an error ?

I find it just as conceivable that 12 punches were recorded in error.... or, 12 punches were scored by compubox, but not scored by the judges

no no no... if your scoring was " fixed " after reviewing compubox... then you DKSAB

it is not just the incorrect number of punches scored, it is the type of punches scored... I guarantee there are plenty of occasions where a fighter "outlanded" another fighter by 10-12 punches but did not win the round... because the judges only score "clean hard punching", and there is additional scoring criteria... and yet compubox records everything

compubox simply does not record official scoring criteria, it does not have the same guidelines as a professional judge