I think more rounds should be scored even. Especially alot of first rounds where nothing happens, you are basically just giving a round away where no one really won it.
On page 2 he called us cocksuckers as well - that's what stuck in my throat (so to speak...) I can see this thread getting bumped every couple if weeks when someone fancies a laugh. It'll just turn up now and again like one of those Express threads, 20-30 pages easy
Possible. But I've seen bouts were a fighter knockdowned the other boxer several times in the same round and won 10-8. So it's not automatic.
Judges are allowed, but are discouraged from scoring even rounds. In the past there were too many judges copping out and scoring too many rounds even, thus boxing orginizations instructed their referees to conciously make an effort to find something in the round to tilt the round to one fighter or the other. There are drawbacks to both way of scoring....... The drawback to the scoring of even rounds is that it lends some freedom to a biased or corrupt judge to not be so blatant about tilting a round full throttle in giving it to his preffered fighter. This way the judge the judge can still be dishonest but saves a little face by awarding an even round. The drawback to discouraging even rounds of course is thatyou can have a situation where fighter A can win say five rounds clear as day, have fighter B win two rounds clearly.......leaving say 5 rounds that close and tough to score. Too many times because judges are discouraged from scoring even rounds, then tend to give the closer rounds to the more popular fighter, which of course is unfair to fighter A. The end results of such fights has fighter A while winning 5 clear rounds, losing a decision in which his opponent only won two or three clear rounds, but was given the fight based on his popularity and not anything he did to earn it in the ring that night. Both ways of scoring have drawbacks, but personally I'd rather judges not be discouraged scoring rounds even. Too many times fights are decided because a round that should have been scored even because it was even, is tilted toward one fighter or the other for subconsiously biased reasons. It happens all the time with us in this forum. Whenever there is an honest to goodness even round that was fought, its only naturaly that any one of us that if we had to pick a winner of the round, we'd naturally side with the fighter we like more. A hated fighter like John Ruiz for example would never get the benefit of an even round from most of us.
EPIC EPIC EPIC FAIL! sp550i started the thread, got owned on the page 2, and hasn't posted on this thread since. Not only is he an idiot, but he can't even own up to it when he is dead wrong. EPIC FAIL!