How come they never interview the Judges?

Thats why boxing is corrupt.

 

Hmmm...I'm actually surprised this hasn't been brought up before.

 

I've never thought of this possibility and its a really good idea. Forcing these guys to speak up if their decisions are questionable would give them a little bit of fear. Boxing is a business though and the very promoters themselves would completely opposed to this possibility.

 

Could actually be quite interesting

 

I have always felt that the judges should be made available during the post fight news conference. Everybody else involved in the fight (managers, trainers, promoters, etc) are available.

Even if the fight is clearly called correctly, it would be nice to hear a judge explain why the card was correct. Of course, if the scorecards are controversial it could help clear the air.

Ultimiately, the goal is to bring clarity and accountability to the sport. After all, the fighters risk their health when they step in the ring.

 

I don't think the commission allows it. . . Or they frown upon it. . .

 

Which is crap because the state boxing commissions are public (government) employees. We the taxpayers fund the commissions then are not allowed to ask them any questions.

Most government commissions, in fact, hold hearings specifically to answer questions from the public. Funny that I can speak to my zoning and planning commissions, but not the boxing one.

 

Teddy Atlas talks about this all the time on FNF. Apparently nobody wants to listen to him when he actually has something very important and intelligent to say. The only times he gets mentioned is when someone wants to talk down on him. Shame.

 

The only times that there would be interest in interviewing a judge is when that judge turns in a really bad scorecard. I would imagine that judge would refuse to do an interview if they knew they were about to be grilled for being corrupt or bad at their job.

 

Didn't he actually confront a judge on camera once after a robbery? It was an Emanuel Augustus fight as I recall. Augustus got robbed and Teddy was grilling someone about how their scorecard was wrong. I can't remember which fight it was, though.

 

They absolutely should! good point

 

Some of the boxing media are on the take and payroll by the promoters.
As well, the boxing media as a whole has become immune to the attrocities that occur in the sport.

A bad decision these days are to be expected. When there is one like Rios-Abril, the media take on it is like "haha, anouther black eye for the sport. Haha, when is the next fight taking place."

As a result, those that run the corrupt sport go further and further knowing there is'nt much they cant get away with.


And btw, HBO in the past has done a re-show of a controversial fight while providing the scores of the official judges after each round as well as their own clown Harold Lederman's.
The problem with these HBO post telecasts is that they provide their won biased insight to how the official judges scored the fight to suit their own house fighter agenda.

What I wish HBO would do in a review of a fight is to bring a crew of respected boxing journalist not on HBO's payroll, and have them break down each round as they view it and we the fans view it on the telecast.

What would be even better is for HBO to bring aboard 3 non-HBO affiliated journalist, plus the trainer from each of the fighters involved in the controversial decision.
This way when you have all three of the journalist aggreeing that fighter A took a particular round clearly and without question, it becomes difficult for the trainer who bogus score benefited his fighter that round to explain it away.

If broadcast networks like HBO and Showtime did this in the aftermatch of bad decisions, there would be some pressure by it for boxing to make certain not to make their scoring so blatantly and obviously corrupt.
Certainly it would clean up some of the more blatant bad scoring and robberies like the last JMM-Pacquiao fiasco where one fighter is clearly effective and other could'nt be any less effective if he tried.

The only problem with something like this to happen is that HBO itself is just as corrupt as boxing itself.
HBO is'nt going to go there when there are already journalist who point to HBO's own corruption and interest in their house fighter getting its hand raised.

If HBO does that to shame boxing officials you can bet that boxing officials will make certain that the same treatment is reciprocated when HBO calls when of their patented bias and bogus calls shamelessly favoring their own house fighter.
In turn each side boxing and HBO sit back and let the other shamelessly do their own corrupt things that they do.