Hopkins-Pascal: Please read and respond.

I've only ever picked up a tennis racket once in my life. For all the gritty details, drop your mom a text.

:hi:

 

It's a good point, but personally I don't think elite boxers would make great judges, nor would they be too interested in doing it. I can't imagine say Roy Jones taking the job too seriously, noting the details of each round and scoring objectively. Actually I think former journeymen would make better judges - people who are passionate and knowledgable about the sport, but would still treat the role with the respect it needs.

 

:huh

:bart

 

I'm going to humour the simpleton :blood

So in your perfect world of ex-boxers judging bouts, would you not allow them to judge bouts between fighters they may have 'bad blood' with?

How are you going to determine 'bad blood' is present in the judges?
:tired

 

I think the judges criteria needs to be standardized more but having former fighters as judges could be a conflict of interest. are you advocating fighting experience as a necessity and requirement to be a judge?

 

If they were picking boxers to be judges, how would they make sure a boxer-judge isn't biased towards someone who fights similar to his style?

 

I wouldn't mind seeing the point-scoring system be amended.

 

it all depends on the boxer, remember jim watt and glen mccrory were former boxers and some of their cards are hideous to say the least

 

Y'all be complicatin' ****.

Black judges will always do all they can to help a brother out. Hopkins once said that Pacquiao would be a tougher fight than Floyd. Now that the cash cow has been officially replaced, and he happens to be Asian, Hopkins swooped in to save some face because Floyd hasn't got the balls. So then he launches the Pac ducks black people (Clottey is Scottish, apparently).

:nono

 

Gotcha. Sound isolation isn't a bad idea but a lot of the time, the judges see something different than the TV camera so there's never going to be a time where everyone sees the same thing as the viewers or the people covering in press row. Which explains why there can be such a big difference in how fights are scored. Outside of outright crooked judging.

As far as former fighters being judges, Leon also mentioned something else I addressed initially. If a fighter doesn't like your style compared to how he used to fight, it might sway how he scores. The same thing happens with Judges though, if they don't like your style they'll score against you. Just like when Gale Van Hoy tried excusing his card in Diaz-Malignaggi 1 card for Diaz by saying Paulie was throwing Pitty pats. I had that fight for paulie myself because he was simply outscoring Diaz and making him miss. Unless they tell people that they have to score it this way, not how the judging can be "based on", it'll never be as perfect as it should be.