Antonio Tarver Interview

if your talking about "what the rules say" THAN YOUR A FU3KING STUPID IDIOT...U CAN HAVE A 10-10 ROUND...WETHER U AGREE OR NOT IS NOT RELEVANT....BOTTOM LINE IS U CAN HAVE IT IN THIS SPORT....U CAN SAY A TD IS WORTH 7 POINTS BUT ITS ONLY WORTH 6 AND AN EXTRA POINT ATTEMPT.deal

 

In Chess tournaments, at one time you got one point for a win, half a point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.


Players would play to reach 12.5 points first.

Many, (maybe most) games ended in a draw.



Often, if one player got a lead, say 3 - 2 or 4.5 - 2.5, they would play very cautiously for a draw, and edge towards the 12.5 mark, half a point at a time.

Boring play led to boring matches as players who were ahead, often played for the draw.


Then, some tournaments introduced a scoring system where you got one point for a win and nothing for a draw or a loss.

You only had to reach 6 points to win the match, but the only way to reach it was with six wins. So everyone played for a win, took risks.


In boxing, a lot of rounds are quite even and a great deal of subjectivity comes into the judging.

Suppose every round was scored a draw EXCEPT where one fighter clearly won. He might need to win on all three scorecards, for example. Ambiguous rounds would be tossed out and only clearly won rounds would count.

This might improve the scoring and/or the quality of the fights.

I scored a recent fight 7-5 for A over B. But I actually scored maybe 5 rounds for A and four for B. The other three were very close. So I ended up making trade-offs in the three swing rounds.

Similarly, I scored DeLahoya Maweather 2,3,4,6,7,8 for Oscar and 1,5, 9,10,11,12 for Floyd. 114-114.

Now Floyd won his rounds more convincingly than Oscar.

Under this proposed system, I would have tossed out five rounds and scored the fight five rounds to two for Floyd.

Even rounds are there, and they lead to controversy a lot of the time.

 

Why is this thread still going?

It was killed on page one.

Keith

 

theres nothing much to talk about.

 

Yes you can have even rounds :rofl, though judges in America don't seem fond of them.

I've always thought the best way to deal with point deductions for fouls is to score each round normally, then subtract any deducted points from the total, that way you don't get into this 9-9 10-10 business.

 

Exactly! I have been judging regional, state, national and international fights for over a decade and some of the "facts" put out here are just bull****. i am now 42 and worked out the scoring system when I was about 8 years old.

Many sports use 10 point must system and drawn rounds do occur - some sports like Muay Thai more often.

 

The level of ignorance on these boards astonishes me sometimes. Ask one question or make one statement and you get 10 different answers by a bunch of ignorant fools. :-(

 

Good god everyone is so angry, ****. Everyone makes they own score, up for debate fine and dandy that's what makes it fun. What's up with the assholes sayin they're way is better than such and such way? It's not a perfect system, never has been and never will be. The issue is the cards wher two judges can sore 115-111 and the third can score 120-109, or something similar. I love the sport but let's be honest the politics behind it are ****ed, the sanction bodies are corrupt, let's just accept it and quit pretending that the **** has any honesty behind it:bbb

 

I notice the OP hasn't been back to take his lumps like the ***** he is.

 

Wrong

 

So if this thread was a round of boxing:

The TS immediately incurred a point deduction for being downright incorrect.

He then went on to suffer numerous knockdowns at the hands of the other posters, while offering nothing in the way of defence.

Would it be 10-6?

 

Newsflash u a chump.:hi:

 

You Act like a "know it all" but you're as ignorant as it gets around here.

Self ownage of the highest order.

 

The towel came in from his corner on page one, scoring is irrelevant here.

 

I agree.

The main cause of so many differing scorecards in boxing is the current convention that there should always be a winner discernable in a round. But a lot of rounds are fairly inconsequential with neither fighter achieving much that can be 'scored'. Forcing judges to pick a 'winner' on such little evidence is obviously going to lead to inconsistencies.