Do you score every fight you watch?

If I'm watching it at all closely, yeah. I don't really have a "casual viewing" mode.

 

Takes away the fun. I only do it for close fights, trying to settle controversies, at least for myself. It would be a waste of time to try and score Hopkins/Pavlik or Pac/Hoya, but Marquez/Pac 2 is something worth the effort.

 

it depends how drunk i am

 

I'm the same way. On my first watch I only want to enjoy the action. I have a feel for who I think is winning but I'm not keeping score. When I go back and look at it round by round sometimes I realize that the guy that I thought won actually didn't or that what I thought was a robbery was a close fight that could have gone either way or that the fight wasn't as close as I thought.

Take Marquez vs Barrera for instance. The first time I saw it I thought Marquez won but I was outraged at the wide margin in the scores. After actually scoring it I realized that while a lot of the rounds were close, Marquez was winning them. A lot of close rounds makes for a close fight but can still make for a lopsided score if the same guy is edging them.

 

i try not to but i end up doing it anyways until about the 10th then i try to remember how i scored it...but i hate doing that cuz i want to enjoy a fight i payed money for

 

the most i'll do is call out who i think won a round if my friends are around during a fight. other than that? nah it'll ruin the whole experience for me. I plan on going into boxing journalism but at the moment Im STRICTLY A FAN

 

True, the debate between busy vs cleaner/harder shots is always worth the effort. These tend to be very controversial because then it becomes subjective. Leonard/ Hagler, Whitaker/Hoya. This is a whole thread in itself.

 

I keep a scorecard only if I think a fight will be close and go to the cards. If it's a fight that I think will end in a KO< or if its a mismatch fight, I never really bother keeping an actual card.

 

Always, at least in my head.

 

matters on my interest in the fight. Also if one boxer is dominating the other, i quit keep count.

 

its normal thou. have you ever realised that when your watching a friday night fight between two random guys you instinctively want one of them to win?

well just like that you instinctively start looking at there performances and have a pretty good idea of who won and by how much. your brain calculates it becuz your a boxing fan lol

 

When I watch a fight with my friends they usually want to score the fight . But most times I dont score fights unless I think the wrong guy won. Alot of times its clear who the winner is without scoring.

 

no not when i first watch it the next day i will watch it again with no commentary and score it then