Compubox is a computer that actually watches the boxers throw punches. It can determine a jab, hook, and uppercut by itself. It requires no people. It counts the punches and puts them in all the assigned categories like landed, thrown, hook, jab, uppercut, percentage, head, and body. Some guy invented it a while back. Its almost like what they do in movies where they have someone make a movement, then the computer scans the movement and puts it in a computerized version a person doing the same movement, except compubox counts punches. I think it determines the kind of punches by the degree of angle from the boxers shoulder. I heard all this from Jim Lampley on HBO. Don't remember what fight though, it was like two years ago.
Uhhh...im pretty sure its done manually, hence it is very flawed.
it's really pretty accurate.. i mean, of course it's not 100% perfect, but when you have people who are paid to basically only watch punches and not the fight, you'll get a fairly accurate assessment.
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