Might sound a bit geeky, but when a game/film is released, a meta score (average across all reviews out of 100) is released and this is used as the main medium of it's percieved accomplishment. So a good film/game gets rated 80-100, good one gets anything between 70-80 and a bad one recieves anything below 70. A meta score for boxing could be used to nullify bad decisions. Lets say we see an absolute robbery (e.g. Malignaggi vs Diaz, Karass vs Jones etc), and the ringside judges in bias award the victory to to wrong fighter, unfairly blemishing the others record in order to maintain the others. Lets say a meta critic is a panel of ex boxers/judges etc who are proven unbias score the bout and fighters records are then additionally compiled as a meta record and a "professional record." Surely this would massively even things out. Could even go as far as it being announced pre-fight along with their "professional record." Thoughts?
hmm but thats difficult to do, I score pac -marquez 2 a win for pac, a lot of people give it to marquez, should it be mentioned on the meta record. Close fights provide that problem. I would rather have a rating for judges and refs and the fights they get should be based on it. Good refs and judges get bigger fights then ones that make stupid decision. They can prove themselves in lower fights to prove they are worthy of going up. This way we might get less robberies.
Meta-criticizing the judges actually does sound easier than the outcome as a whole. If it's a close fight with a split, most people won't nitpick a 115-113 for each fighter but then if you have a judge with a 118-110 score that doesn't make any ****ing sense, they should be held accountable for their ****ed up score.
What we need is an international federation of judges that are independent from promoters, sanctioning bodies, and athletic commissions, who regulate themselves, decide themselves who judges a fight, and punishes judges who make bad decisions. We also need round-by-round scoring so everyone knows in between rounds what the state of the fight is. Scoring in secrecy breeds bias, idiocy and outright corruption.
To be honest I dont like it when I know the cards in between rounds, takes a bit of the excitement away for me. It also causes fighters to do stupid thing and a lot of boxers will go dlh vs tito on us when they know they are ahead enough to dance a few rounds. The federation part is good though, but how do you get it? there first needs to be one controlling body over boxing, then another with judges and referees. Also the power of promoters needs to be minimized so we can have good honest fights. Problem is where do you start? its so much to do it would take years and a lot of effort by people who are currently filling their pockets and dont care for change.
The outcome of the fight should not be decided by people watching on television. You can't feel/hear the punches in the same way and thus don't get as clear a picture of who is doing the damage as those at ringside. Maybe an aggregate of press row scores would suffice.
I'd agree with something like this. However, my original intention when starting this thread was to outline something that was viable. A more accurate alternative to the drab officiating we see in too many fights nowadays. The system I propose would obviously be some unofficial panel of externally hired individuals i.e. of no affiliation with current sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBO, WBC etc), who would compile their scorecards at the end of a bout and generate an average total scorecard. What I think would make this more viable is people would more appropriately draw their opinion from this "meta score," than they would from bias ass judges. As the popularity of the system spreads, we'd see it's utility more widely acknowledged, and ultimately (ideally), "meta records" would be announced alongside their "professional records," during the pre-fight announcements. I think we're asking too much to grant such a system the ability to "punish" judges for mismarking, and I feel this would involve meta critic becoming too involved with sanctioning bodies as well. Theres absolutely no way anything like this would happen. WBA, WBO, WBC etc would see it as the beginning of the much needed international governing body, the sole body by which the "belt holder" would be considered the actual champion. It won't happen for the sole reason that it's logical...
