"Fighter A ran all night!" - 1st off, he probably didn't; 2nd, even if he did, it doesn't mean B won

People really need to stop using this faulty logic.

Discuss.

 

In very few cases of televised boxing have we seen an opponent literally run away with virtually no effort to engage for the majority of a match's duration. Julio David Roque Ler did so versus Jorge Arce, for which he basically has found himself banished from America TV ever since. Andre Dirrell vs. Curtis Stevens is another example, and while he didn't get banned from the screen or shunned by matchmakers (unlike Ler he was simply too good to ignore, despite the unsavory aspects of his craven nature) most fans have never forgiven him for it.

That pair of examples also perfectly illustrates the dichotomy that should be the dividing line between a situation where the runner loses (as Ler rightfully did), and the opposite situation where he wins (as Dirrell rightfully did). Arce couldn't do much with Ler and did very little that was effective, but everything that was done effectively in the matchwas done by him. Stevens failed to cut the ring off and came up with no creative solutions. As negative as Dirrell was he snuck in a tiny bit of effective work, enough that Stevens' utter DEARTH of effective work meant that you had to award the lion's share of individual rounds and ultimately the contest to Dirrell.

Even in situations where Fighter A is actually running (and not simply boxing, interspersing dedensive movement with actively scoring counterpunching or pot-shotting), you don't magically gift Fighter B with points just for coming forward. Ever. He actually has to DO something effective. The onus is on him to chase Fighter A down and score on him. If neither lands anything, you have a 10-10 round.

Guys that have never spent a match flat-out running:

Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Erislandy Lara
Iván Calderón

...yet critics of these boxers or their styles fall back on the lazy argument "he ran all night!! " frequently when discussing their fights and faced with no actual recourse based in soundly reasoned out logic. Time we end this platitude of dumb histrionic rhetoric.

Next time a moron losing a debate about the scoring of a fight inaccurately plays the "running" card, let's call them out and provide a link for this pillorying thread, a sober reminder of them having no leg to stand on in a real argument, or else no clue what running in a boxing match actually resembles.

 

See that's a bad example IMO; what Lara did was outbox Canelo and refuse to brawl with him on his terms, he didn't "run".

 

No. You shouldn't do that.

All things being equal, 10-10.

There's no "coming forward" bonus. That needs to stop already.