If a boxer completely dominates a round but suffers a KD, how should the round be scored?

So, this concept was originally thought up by @uhd100 - but the poll in uhd's thread included a couple of downright fallacious options that betrayed a lack of understanding of how boxing's "ten-point must" system works. So we have to scrap his OP and poll, and start fresh.

To be perfectly clear, you cannot score that hypothetical round (or Wilder vs. Fury round twelve, in particular) 9-9 or 9-8. There's no such thing as scoring a round in pro boxing where at least one combatant isn't awarded ten full points. You cannot, under any circumstances, do that.

("what about a situation where the fighter that wins the round is deducted a point from the referee for a foul? Isn't that 9-9?" you might ask. Well, yes and no. Yes in that functionally the round posts 9 points to each man's total, but in the scoring column for that individual round a pro judge would put 10-9 for the winner...and then separately, in the fight subtotals column, would mark 9 points for each, subtracting a point from the winner extraneously to his base score in that round. Ya dig? If not, that's a problem. Re-read it until you understand, and don't go crowing about how 9-9 or 9-8 or 9-5 or 9-anything rounds - or anything other than an individual round base score of "10-something" is feasible. Because it really isn't...)

A is never an option. Why? You can't have a "9-9" round (you can have a round functionally be one, if the ref deducts a point for a foul, but not for a knockdown - but even the referee point deduction for a foul is still a 10-9 round within the official column of the judge's score-sheet, with the point deducted in a separate totals column). You do not can cannot ever supersede the impetus of "ten point must" for a knockdown.

C is never an option. Same reason as for "A". One fighter must get a "10" in the individual round's column on the judge's official scoring sheet. You can have the winner of the round only get 9 points over in the separate totals column, only for a deduction for a foul, never for a knockdown. In a round where there are no deductions for a foul, at least one fighter gets ten points, no matter what.

The options should have been presented as:

10-8 Wilder (conventional scoring, the majority of times in this situation)
10-9 Wilder (if you think Fury truly dominated the round, enough to completely offset the knockdown)
10-10 (pretty outrageous, but still technically an option, unlike the first & third options given by uhd; this would be if you felt the round was so dominant in favor of Fury that, minus the knockdown, you would have scored it a 10-8 round for him even without him dropping Wilder)

That's all. Those are the only realistic options, within the rules. Option #1 is the one that 99% of fans and 99% of pro judges are going to agree is correct. A vocal minority could make a case for option #2. The last is really a ludicrously out-there choice, but still, a judge would not be in violation of the rules if they scored it thus (just showing very poor subjective judgment). There is no latitude for a pro judge to score a round (again, within the individual round's base scoring column) as 9-9 or 9-8. Zero. They do not have that option, ever. The job isn't subjective to quite that degree. They can't just write in whatever they want. You can't submit a round score of "50 kajilleon googleplex to negative four", because that's nonsense. Likewise, a 9-9 or 9-8 round is nonsense. Gobbledygook. Not an option.

Here are the original poll results:

Poll Results: How do you score it?

Members who voted for '10-8'

• Jennifer Love Hewitt
• FrankinDallas
• Goose
• Pimp C
• nervousxtian
• rodney
• McGrain
• Keleneki
• Babality
• Sandman_
• lufcrazy
• KO KIDD
• Reppin501
• Lith
• Anima
• DKD
• MetalLicker
• trololopunch
• SuperROB87
• glovesofcrimson
• RingKing75
• ForemanJab
• ellerbe
• Eel87
• Boon
• BiggieL
• Stonehands
• GK BOX
• 12toneman
• MrTombourineMan
• Contro
• stormenic
• JordanK2406
• Gymbot
• DTM
• LitoCandela
• Dance84
• Heavy_Hitter
• Veys9
• 'Warpath'
• tommoalex
• George Crowcroft
• piprules
• Pakkuman
• HitmanMG
• JabbaTheGut
• ColmC

Members who voted for '10-9'

• valdosta
• Daddy
• innewst
• spiderricco
• demigawd
• Nopporn
• rinsj
• bruce_keyes
• Robney
• MisterSinister
• NoNeck
• On The Money
• nurological
• kiwi_boxer
• lewis gassed
• Chutz
• speedbaggage
• goku23
• lordlosh
• DoubleJab666
• robfosters
• It's Ovah
• Ryan28
• 2manyusernames
• J555
• Greg Price99
• Stiff Jab
• Zishan hussain
• Jacdaniel
• Uponthangs

Members who voted for '9-9'

• Ted Stickles
• The Clan
• rakan
• Deew
• Tazz
• Libertine
• Ph33rknot
• Tom_gers123
• YCGS
• mirkofilipovic
• lordlosh
• Old boxer
• Emerald Oracle
• aaalbert
• Leeroy84
• titanic
• Bondy365
• S.K
• Draperys
• FastSmith7
• Oreet Cha!
• James Hudson
• JDub
• bcfc1875
• JamesLightsOutToney
• ShovelHook

Members who voted for '9-8'

• fitzroy boy_iron mike
• lewishamboy
• fenoc1
• lefthandlead
• UniversalPart
• zeratul
• TheRevAshton
• Bofo24

• Members who voted for 'Dereck Chisora'
  MrFoFody
  velagod
  CST80
  ryuken87
  DanielDimov
  PrinceNaseemHamed
  uhd100
  El Meza
  blackfella96

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So, yeah... all of you in the fourth & fifth groupings there, who voted for either 9-9 or 9-8... along with fellow "10-point must" deniers @Chiefit420 and @DavidC77 - I'm going to need you all to reply to me with sworn affidavits that you a) understand why your vote is wrong and not possible under the rules of scoring the sport and b) promise to not go around disseminating falsehoods to confuse any newbies or fellow uninformed fans.

You're going to all do this within the next week, okay? If you don't (and I click on your name and see you've logged in since at least an hour after I tagged you in this post), you're no longer going to have privileges on this forum.