Do you believe in a Draw Decision?

A draw does not mean they performed equally inside the ring.

It only means they both won the same number of rounds.

Fighter A totally dominated fighter B from rounds 1 to 6 but fighter B only slightly edged fighter A from round 7 to 12, the fight could very well be a draw (unless one of the rounds are scored 10 - 8). It is a draw but fighter A apparently performed better.

 

To me this si hard to answer. Like a previous poster if you go round by round (as boxing is scored) then yes I think it's perfectly possible for a fight to be a "draw". The problem is after the draw we go back and evaluate the entire fight. I think it's difficult if you look at the 12 rounds entirely for it to be a draw. Even if its a hellatious fight where the guys are pounding each other typically one does a little more. The only example I can possibly think of is where the fight is such a borefest that neither guy really does anything to win the fight (i.e. Ruiz-Holyfield III)

 

Yes. It doesn't happen often, and usually when it does it's a BS decision. Something to look at would be fighters like Gatti/ Ward. I can't even remember who won them (I thought Gatti won 2), but my point is you have 2 warriors in there, who have the same brawling style, and are equal...Knocking eachother down, neither giving in.
In those cases if nobody actually went down, or they both went down just as much as the other man...It'd be really hard to give either man a decision. Just to damn close.

 

I dislike this mentality, that I think mostly comes from American sports, that a draw is a bad thing. There should be more draws in boxing, without a doubt, more draws mean less robberies.

 

In order to decide if a round, or indeed a fight, is called a draw you need to decide your margin of acceptance. If a round is truely equal but one fighter maybe threw 1-2 more landing punches does that make him a worthy winner of a round.

I think draws are tottaly acceptable (unless Don King is involved).

At the end of a true battle, like Pac/Marquez, there should always be an obvious margin of victory. Both fighters deserve that at least and the box another day.

Or maybe a boxing equivilent to a penalty shoot out.

 

no..:----(

 

I think its just a perspective thing, from what I understand, in American sports there are not a lot of draws or there is no option to draw, it is seen as somehow an anti-climax, there has to be a winner at all costs. In Europe and elsewhere, sometimes the best games of soccer are a classic 3-3 draw, in cricket & rugby there are lots of draws, etc.

So yeah, people in boxing are reluctant to rule it a 'draw' because of that 'there must be winner mentality' (which I'm not complaining or being negative about in a general sense). For example, things like Oscar-Tito and Hopkins-Calzaghe - a draw would have been better than the actual decsions in those particular fights, and there are a lot more examples.

 

No I haven't mate. An absurdly difficult thing to do eh?

 

I have predicted a draw for Ngougjo vs Urango

 

If you cant split 2 fighters then its extremely unfair to hand one of them a loss.

Same with even rds... if neither man does enough to win the rd then why award him the rd ahead of the other fighter ?... it makes no sense.

If its even, its even.

End of.

 

The one thing I've always wondered is why aren't pro boxing matches an odd number of rounds? This would eliminate draws in the situations where there aren't 10-8 rounds. Something like 5, 7, 9, 13 instead of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12