The Punishment Should Fit the Crime: Looking at the One-Point Deduction Rule

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    The Punishment Should Fit the Crime: Looking at the One-Point Deduction Rule

    There has been a great amount of hullabaloo over the final cards tallied in the recent fight between Ike Quartey and Vernon Forrest. Unfortunately I have to wait until Friday to see the fight on UK TV but one facet of the judge’s scorecards caught my eye. I ought to stress right now, though, that I am a huge fan of Forrest, I am delighted he has won and could be soon in the title mix; this is not a biased attempt at presenting a rematch case for Quartey. In any case the makeup of the cards suggests to me that the fight was scored accurately apart from one, vital and glaring, error in the application of the scoring. [details]
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