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

I've raised this point before. It seems as though a knockdown automatically results in a 10-8 round regardless of what happened in the rest of the round which I think is completely ridiculous.

One possible scenario is that you have a round which is evenly contested and right at the end a knockdown is scored.

Another is that one fighter is completely dominating his opponent, beating the hell out of him and has him on the verge of a stoppage.
But at the end of the round, the opponent throws one shot in desperation and the fighter who has been dominating the round goes down but isn't really hurt and gets up straight away.

Apparently the rules state that both rounds should be scored 10-8 to the fighter who scored the knockdown which is ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS.

If judges were allowed to use their own discretion (as they do in rounds when a knockdown isn't scored) then I would score the first scenario 10-8 to the fighter who scored the knockdown and the second 10-9 or 9-8 to the fighter who was knocked down.

I don't see how a knockdown can completely override everything that happened earlier in the round especially when the fighter who scored it was having the sh*t kicked out of him.

 

I disagree.

 

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It's a combat sport, if you are down you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. Even if you are jabbing well the whole round, the time when your legs turn to spaghetti and you're on the canvass, you lost that round. Unless you can come back with a knockdown yourself.

 

Depends on how hard the KD is, and how dominant the other fighter is before and after that point.

If a fighter is truly dominant and is forced to touch down with a glove as a result of being knocked off balance, you could easily call that 10-9. If a fighter is winning but not dominating, it's probably going to be called 10-8. That applies to Fury-Wilder Round 12.

 

I'm not talking about jabbing, I'm talking about when a fighter is knocking seven bells out of his opponent and putting him at a disadvantage.

 

How is a round scored if both fighters get a knockdown in a round?

 

Definitely 10-8 Wilder just from what I've seen happen before. Fury won the round. But I think judges usually only modify their scoring of a 10-8 round if the fighter that knocked the other one down gets hurt or at least beaten up, not just dominated. And I don't think Fury dominated anyway, although he did clearly win the rest of the round, before and after.

Now, imagine if it was the same, but rather that almost KO'd, Fury was off balance and touched the canvas with his glove, you know, a weak knockdown. Do you think the judges would score it the same, 10-8 for Wilder?

 

Weird or not, it’s a 10-point must system with an exception of if the ref docks a point IIRC.
So if both have a KD it goes back to 10-10 and then the winner/loser is decided as per usual.

 

10-8

 

On a 10 point must they both go to 10-10 then is decided normally

 

10-8 a knockdown is a knockdown as long as both don't go down.

 

NOT 10-8....

That's the biggest problem with boxing scoring.

You can't dominate someone for 2 mins and 59 seconds, suffer a knockdown and be 2 points in the hole.

It's objectively bad. Whoever argues otherwise is a nutjob.

Yeah so someone could be beating the breaks off this kid and the ref is inches away from stopping the fight, the dude gets hit with a shot (A soft knockdown) and suddenly he's lost the round 8-10 LOL.

What a joke of a system!

 

I assume that by domination we talk about rounds that are scored 10-8 even with no KDs. Which are extremely rare cases, often when the other fight doesn't land a single punch and barely throws. The only fight that immediately comes to mind is Klitschko - Briggs. I believe judges scored some of the rounds 10-8.

In that event, by definition you cannot have a dominant round and get knocked down. Then the round is not dominant.

Whether it is fair or not is a different discussion, but that's how things are.