How do you score a fight?

Compubox is mainly there for the casual viewer.

The hardest thing about scoring is when the round starts slow (you have one minute of nothing basically), one guy controls the next minute and then the final minute is all for the other guy.

Those rounds are brutal.

 

I agree with eze's basic criteria. It's also probably the one thing Lederman is right about.

I like to break the rounds down minute by minute. If you have it in your head that fighter A won the first minute, and most of the second minute, then you don't fall for one flashy combo in the last ten seconds by figher B.

I also make a serious note of body work, which I think many judges completely ignore.

 

Body work is hard to score because you can rarely (unless it's tremendous) tell early on if the body work is successful. When you get to rounds 6-10 THEN you begin to see if the body work is good. Good work to the body is a nice way to pile up points (and a TKO) when the fight gets later on.

Unless one fighter is going crazy to the ribs and another is lying there/smothering...then that's easy to tell.

 

just want to ask...if the punch is block by fighter's gloves, does compubox consider it a made punch?

 

They don't consider that a landed punch intentionally, but sometimes they make mistakes and accindentally count that punch that landed on the gloves.

 

I think that's what happens. I think they count punches that land on the arms as well.

 

Well, you can sometimes see if the punches land, and thats what really counts. But the question is, how hard are those punches? You won't get the answer until the later rounds in which those punches usually take their toll.

 

We should try to contact comubox and see whats up, cause if thats the case, then I see why Winky lost to JT. Winky's style allows lots of punches to the head to land on gloves and attempted body shots to land on the arms.

 

Right which is what makes picking a sustained body attack over a sustained face attack hard to choose between. Luckily most fights aren't THAT hard to score.

Then again I had Sergio Martinez beating Kermit Cintron by 5 rounds so what the hell do I know?

 

I score each round by saying who would you had prefer to have been in that round...

 

i never score a round a draw

 

LoL. I same here. I had Sweet Pea beating Chavez, but I guess I don't know jack squat.

 

It means you know a hell of a lot more than those judges do.

I would agree that clean shots to the head have more weight than body shots, but if body shots are landing cleanly and with force, I'm taking them into consideration.

Really, most damage in a fight is cumulative, whether it's happening upstairs or down. There is a balance between scoring what you see and scoring what you sense, but if you do too much by sense you end up with Teddy Atlas "storyline" cards that don't necessarily reflect what actually happened round by round.

 

I'm doing my scoring simple . . . ring generalmanship and clean effective punching . . . and most of the time my card doesn't go far from the official scorecards . . . usually a round or two difference on closely contested rounds.

. . .and when I score fights I turn off the volume so . . . no influence from the bias anchors . . . I score based on what I see.

 

I usually score fights on who lands the harder and cleaner shots not so much on who throws more punches (ex.Calzaghe vs Hopkins) I thought Hop won the fight

Defense plays a big part too...