If Boxing was Scored by result not Rounds

Jose Luis Ramirez took over the 2nd half of the fight against Edwin Rosario in their first bout. I thought Ramirez won it, but the judges gave it to El Chapo.

I think it was in PR so that helped.

 

The fighter with the more messed up face loses

 

Look at Michael Katsidis and Czar Amonsot's faces after their fight.

 

You could win the first 10 rounds and then lose the last 2 clearly and potentially lose the fight, which would be a bit unfair. No system is perfect, but the current one is about as good as it's going to get. Saying that i'd prefer it if judges were actually allowed to still score rounds even from time to time as a lot of the time that is why you get odd scoring sometimes with rounds being given one way or the other when in reality nobody really won the round.

 

Good point. Imagine a fight where one fighter just about takes a close contested 6 rounds 10-9 and the other fighter wins the final 6 rounds 10-9 convinvingly, should the fight be a draw?

 

That's very vague.

I wouldn't want fight outcomes to rely on how the judges or ref "felt" after the fight, scorecards have to be kept.

But I would prefer if a fighter got an extra point for clearly winning a round, as opposed to just win a close round. That way clear rounds would matter more than close rounds and the scores would be fairer.

There was a recent article on ESB.com that suggested something like this and I found it very interesting.

 

hopkins vs calzaghe
dirrell vs froch
this scoring system would probably be a bit more accurate.

 

agreed.

 

Sure. That's why people ***** about the Taylor-Hopkins results, or Cotto-Clottey. In the latter, Clottey obviously was the one who did more damage, but he did most of that damage in 5 rounds, plus he was knocked down, and he very clearly lost 5 rounds simply due to lack of activity.

 

Jones Tarver I, might have gone to Tarver under those circumstances.

 

The problem with the scoring is it's lack of flexibility. It forces 10-9 rounds, even when a round is "just about even". Allowing half 9 (or even quarter) points would do a lot to help scoring. Adding a 4th judge and throwing out the "outlier" score would also help.

 

good point