This is How to FIX the Judging

Interesting idea, but the idea of anonymous judges would open the floodgates to bribery.

 

Are the gates even there anymore?

 

Stop buying the fights and vote with your feet !

 

Way too many scorecards will allow for statistical biases to absolutely occur.

This sport has always been scored from a subjective standpoint. They have criteria on what to follow as far as scoring a round for a specific fighter, but in a fight between two high level fighter's such as Canelo-GGG, many of the rounds are going to be very close so it's a matter of what the judges like. They're also trying to score everything in real time without the assistance of slow motion/instant replay to help them decide (a tool which could be helpful especially if the rounds are razor close.)

Even the amateur system is screwed up with their points scoring format. A lot of subjectivity on how they award points to amateur fighters.

 

50 judges, you guys are cartoons.

You'd still cry about outcomes anyway.

 

I posted a similar idea earlier

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/ban-judging.614944/#post-19410282

Yours is more ambitious, But I suspect 25 judges wouldn't work financially.

 

Yeah, but there is an easy way around that. You don't tell which judges' cards will be used. Just like when they have a firing squad, not all rifles are loaded. Make it so the judges' cards that are used are randomly computer selected. Also, you need to have judges from around the world viewing the fight, not carefully picked guys who can be counted on for "home-cooking." No, unfortunately, boxing is in a terrible state right now. We all know it. Corruption is rampant. Another variable that could be tried would be to have the viewing public cast a vote and have them account for 50% of the vote. It is remarkable the accuracy of correct decisions I have seen coming from the viewing audience. Some might say you can't count on random voters from the viewing public but the results I have seen have been spot on. They won't do it, though, because they can't control it.

 

Not a problem. The majority of people who do these types of things do it for the love of the sport. Take the US Open tennis event. Do you know Osaka got $3.8 million for her victory and that Carlos Ramos, the ref who officiated the match, got about $600? Yes, you read that correctly, $600.

 

Wtf really? 600 bucks to get yelled by Williams?

 

Stop having fights in Vegas would help.

 

someone still choose the judges

 

You don't have to do all that BS. Have the judges write a summary of what they saw round per round the next day after the fight (They can write, correct?). So say for example, Fighter A (unknown/not marketable/or whatever) dominated round 5 over Fighter B (Fighting in hometown/has Arum, King, Golden Girl/or whoever). If the judge writes something like, "well Fighter B used his feet as defense, so I gave him the round" yet Fighter A was scoring at will then you have proof that this particular judge either...a.) Doesn't know how to score a fight and is incompetent...b.) is too busy picking his nose during fights, or...c.) is corrupt and should not be allowed to judge a fight again.

Pretty simple, actually. But my idea would actually be exposing who the incompetent judges are and who the corrupt ones are, so I don't believe we will ever see it come to fruition.

 

Why not leave the results to a poll from the audience in the stadium and online from viewers who watched the fight on PPV and go with the majority decision? I guarantee you this will give you a correct fair result 99.99% of the times