If a boxer completely dominates a round but suffers a KD, how should the round be scored?

How so?

 

In my opinion boxing should go to normal scoring - Each round gives you a point and that's it. If someone scores a KD, gets a point. I feel like this would be fair enough.

 

I don't think he dominated the round either. I think he recovered nicely, but was in survival mode. I scored that one 10-8 for sure. Wilder was trying to destroy Fury when the fight resumed. Fury took a few additional hard shots.

 

By rights, if a knockdown is scored, the boxing who is knocked down loses a point. So it should be even. In reality, nowadays, judges just automatically score it 10-8 to the fighter scoring the KD. Which I think is wrong, but there you go...

 

I meant 10-10. Clumsy use of words. 9-9 is only possible when a point has been deducted.

 

I think the example given by OP is not the best one. The knockdown round (forget the number, but it was an early one) in Moore-Holyfield I would be a better example. Moore absolutely was dominating that round, making Evander miss, putting him on the defensive, landing frequently and cleanly, then right towards the end Holy caught Moore with a perfect shot that dropped Moore. While not a flash knockdown, it wasn't a heavy one, and Moore easily made it to his feet. It ended up being the deciding round in the fight with each judge scoring it differently (10-8 Holy, 10-9 Holy, and 10-10 respectively).

In that example, I say 10-9. I can't ignore the one-sided work being done in 95% of the round and then give that boxer a two-point hole. I feel that is justifiable, given how rare this kind of situation is; most of the time the boxer who scored the knockdown was also winning the round, (KD's are usually scored after being set-up, or at least on the back of effective work prior) or at least competitive (the way Pacquiao was with Thurman in the first round of their fight: a close round I felt Pacquiao was juuuust losing before the KD.)

10-10 is inexcusable unless the boxer who dominating 95% of the fight also seriously rocked the guy who knocked him down. I'm talking spaghetti legs, stumble towards the ropes, turtling up and running, probably should take a knee kind of rocking.

 

That’s a 10-8 Wilder round clear as day.

A flash kd where the other guy dominates is 10-9 to the guy who scored the kd.

 

9-9
Dominating a round requires immense concentration and effort, scoring a knockdown is very often just a lucky shot or a lapse in concentration. Knockdowns are overrated in boxing, as long as you get up and carry on winning the round, you should be looked at more favourably.

 

I think you’ll find it very hard to find any round with a KD where the victim of the KD has dominated so much as to warrant a 10-9. Round 12 of Fury-Wilder definitely wasn’t that

 

9-8 for the guy who scored the knockdown or it could easily be a draw round given how bad the other guy dominated the round but most times the guy scoring the knockdown gets awarded the round not always but most times