First fight you ever scored after learning how to score fights?

Hahaha. I love that you scored it a shutout for Hagler and then by only one point.

 

Truth be told, I never used to score fights actively till I joined this forum and found the scorecard thread. I used to keep a running tally in my head in terms of rounds, rather than points, when I watched a fight.

 

The very first title bout i scored was Muhammad Ali vs George Chuvalo on March 29 1966, my Dad showed me how to score a bout, punches that connected, Aggressiveness and Ring Generalship, I scored it for Ali 72-65 under the Canadian scoring rules. I remembered that Jackie Silvers was the referee, Ali kept complaining to him about Chuvalo's low blows. Ali retained by unanimous 15 round decision.

 

The second Carlos Monzon v Emile Griffith fight. 15 rounds on WW of sports with Cosell calling the action.

 

Only in recent years, my first real scoring of a fight was The FOTC. Hard work. Very close fight, imo.

When looking that much more closely at a fight, sometimes your perception can become far more skewed than when you’re standing back a bit and taking it all in, informally and more holistically.

Microscopic, blinkered treatment might see you hugging only certain trees while missing others, and most importantly, see you missing the more telling lay of the forest, so to speak.

Depending on the fight, stylistic mesh and opposing accents, sometimes it certainly isn’t easy to score some fights. There is also the contentious rating of punch vs punch value.

Realistically, can you really pay due attention to both fighters at the same time (in real time)?

It can be an easy pitfall to over focus on the work of one fighter at the expense of the other guy, inadvertently over sighting the latter’s work.

It doesn’t mean there’s any bias involved, it can just be happenstance and both fighters might suffer on RBR basis when you’re only watching one of them at any given time.

I would even say that it’s perhaps too much or almost too much for judges to score based on just the one, real time, viewing. We’ve all scored the same fight a few times - we can appreciate the variance in perception, even for the same scorer, from one viewing to another.

Imagine if decisions were put back for 1 week to allow judges to score the same fight multiples time to come out with an averaging of their perceptions - for a more comprehensive analysis and conclusion?

Lol, I don’t think that would go down too well.

 

Jesus...that 2nd scorecard is waaaay to close.

Duran winning would have been a travesty and Trinidad-De La Hoya was a major robbery. The other two, yes, although the best I could give Marv was a draw; Camacho-Rosario could have gone either way (I thought Rosario nicked it myself).

 

If I fighter kept coming forward, whether he was effective or not, Lederman would find a way to give him the round.

 

I can't remember but I am crap at scoring! I either get caught up in the fight and forget what happened at the beginning of the round or get distracted and have to finish a fight later and lose the flow of it. I also have a habit of almost giving every round to one fighter at first and then trying to balance it out as I feel my scoring is so lopsided!

 

I honestly don't remember. Might have been something like Spinks-Eddie Davis. What a nightmare that one is to score. Just brutal.