Boxing needs new system instead of Compubox

Who really cares about Compubox?

It's just someone watching the fight and manually logging the stats anyway - just as fallible and subjective as anyone else decision.

Personally I never really gave a monkeys about stats/percentages etc - everything you need to know can be read from watching the fight IMO.

But I know some folks love their stats!!!!

 

It's terrible and is treated as though it's gospel. When you actually check in to it yourself you realise how inaccurate it is.

 

It s good to see patterns thst s all.

 

It's good for fight activity, so you can look back and see how many punches were thrown, the average per round in a certain division, etc. But no, you can't score fights based on Compubox.

 

For your information fights are not officially scored by compubox. Three ringside judges take care of eyeballing the action and score it round by round.

Jim Lampley and HBO scored it using compubox, but fortunately for the fighters their junk compubox numbers did'nt render an official score. Although Lampley yelling fromt he top of his lungs his opinion of the happenings probably influenced more than one official judge doing the scoring.

 

It's a tool, and has to be taken for what it is, human imperfections included. I look at it, but I don't base all of my decisions on it.

 

I exclusively use CompuBox to score every fight.

Joe Calzaghe is the GOAT, by the way.

 

Totally agree with this i even make a thread what a joke the compubox numbers are from Usyk - Joshua fight.
There is so many matches, where the numbers are so close, when in reality there are very wide.

 

They should have can asterisk during the fight that the punch stats are some kind of preliminary count. Then after the fight go through it more thoroughly and get better accurate numbers.

 

Somebody would have to go back and watch the whole fight on slo mo to get an accurate count… There would need to be a system to measure punch quality or effectiveness for those numbers to tell the story of a fight, however.

 

Will this new system forgo real time punch stats? I get your point, but it is kind of nice to get stats as the fight is going. Your way, stats won't come in for at least an several hours after the fight is over. I guess for the sake of accuracy, it might be well worth it.

 

LOL, very nice.

 

If we're gonna have someone go through the fights with a fine tooth comb like that I'd prefer to get detailed qualitative descriptions and otherwise hard to spot important moments instead of punch counts.

 

The worst thing is when fans use punch stats to argue why a certain fighter won not realizing that unlike the amateurs, counting punches isn't a scoring criteria.