Are judges placing too much emphasis on aggression?

No,.their just going for the favorite..Marquez could of got a ko over pac and like midana said " it would be a draw at best "

 

Not enough in my opinion.

Boxing at the end of the day is a spectator sport. As much as winning is important, style matters too for the long term health of the sport. You can suck up all you like about appreciation of sweet science and what not but if the casual fan is turned off, it isn't going to do boxing any good.

I would say it is not much dissimilar to football. Mourinho was winning everything under the sun with negative football and although his style of football was spread across Europe, it quickly went outta fashion because crowd attendance dropped even tho teams were getting better result with it.

So for the health of boxing, if anything rules should be geared towards a more crowd pleasing form of boxing. Otherwise, I might as well go watch MMA with guys hugging and kissing each other on the floor doing nothing for minutes on end to appreciate sweet science.

 

I think judges at times fear that they may be out of work if they score against a promoters fighter, if that makes sense.

 

Yes they are, look at Pac JMM, also, Froch Ward, i mean how did they not all have it by 9-3 Ward of even more? (i had it 10-2)

 

That's ridiculous to the point of being offensive. In those fights most of the aggression was not effective.

 

it's the fans

 

this also, the fans sway the judges a lot IMO

 

Its actually the thing thats pissing me off most in boxing.
People scoring ineffective aggression, boxers throwing tons of volume and only landing gloves or air.

Even though most educated viewers can see that Marquez CLEARLY beat Pac by 4 rounds, you still have the 15% or so of ******s that give it to Pac and as long as those idiots do not learn how to score boxing these robbies will keep happening and the promoters will keep on getting away with it.

Same with a Williams vs Lara, or to a lesser extent a Kotelnik vs Alexander.
And if the 2 refs that scored Ward vs Froch 115 - 113 were purely doing it on aggression they need to be suspended as well, **** like that is killing boxing.

 

Wasn't talking about any of the mentioned fights. I was just talking about why crowd pleasing form of boxing is important to the health of boxing.

As Maximus got told, you need to entertain the crowd.

 

lol I meant the fans don't really know how to score a fight. And they get swayed easily by the commentators.

 

keep blabbering shame sh*t hoping someday it could be true, have you not seen the fight or pac was just too fast for you... Need slowmo? And this hitting all sh*t! Have you seen quasimodo marquez after the fight...

 

I'll say too much on corruption/bribery

 

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