New Scoring Systems

in glove technology... bleh... what about shots landed agains arms and gloves... theyd register as hits...

Button pushing for shots landed bleh... what about EFFECTIVENESS of punches and ring generalship. These cannot be button pushed. What we need is the same scoring that has worked for the last 100 years (this decade excluded) and competant judges! The judges are whats ruining the system. Perhaps more 10-8 rounds? Either way- technology is NOT the answer. We really just need educated professionals judging the events. A militar major just scored tonights bout. I don't know how military training TRANSLATES to boxing knowledge, but even lederman was saying he's had some botched decisions...

 

Awful idea. A new scoring method would be a better idea than anything else.

 

Its the judges, stupid! The 10-point must system is not the problem. The problem is how it is usd and interpreted by all the different judges and commisions across boxing. Their is a serious lack of standardization and professional quality judging in boxing. The main reason for this is that no judge to my knowledge is a professional judges. Judges need to be professionalized the same way referees are in every other majour sport. The need a professional regulating body that is able to hold them to a higher level of professional compotense then a state athletics commission (which is basically a glorified volunteer club) possibly can. Professional body`s are subject to laws and legislation that demand a high level of transparancy and public accountability. They have the ability to punish poorly proforming or morally incompotent members by taking away their livelihood, and they have administrative structures that are far more affective at identifying and developing talent then useless state commissions are. You could also extent this to referees as well.

Definitely this is half a pipe dream but in my opinion the best and most affective way to improve the officating of majour boxing events would be to professionalize it.

 

Don't like those other ideas. I think if any changes are going to be made, i say just add judges. The greater the consensus, the less impact that 1 or 2 bad judging performances can have. Boxing's scoring is totally subjective, and it always will be, so there is a certain level of human bias(intentional or not) that will be in effect. However, if u can lessen the impact of any one individual in the eventual results, you are much more likely to get a representative outcome.

 

Personally I don't like the fact that when a person wins a round in which no one did much, it counts the same as one that was dominated by one person.

 

Get rid of compubox/punchstat and unofficial scoring(Ledderman). Also have at least a former fighter as a commentator that tend to be less bias. Ever since the introduction of these punchstats, every fan in the damn world and fighter that loses bring these numbers up and excuses, when most of the time are misleading to the public. Trust me, people will ***** less.

 

Just fight like a ***** and you will win nowaday.

 

I'm not entirely sure. It seems asking for competent and uncorrupted judges is too much to ask for. I guess more of an emphasis on even or close rounds. Ideally I'd like to see the fighters that clearly wins his rounds more easily, more often be rewarded with the victory. This sort of approach should help diminish a blow to robberies, at least of incompetence is the actual culprit. Who knows.

 

Exactly. I'm not even passionate about a new scoring system, but it's hardly the worse idea. Far better than a tallying system or some technology gadget that scores fights.

 

What relevance does this has for the actual scoring? It's not as if judges are looking at a punch-stat monitor with HBO commentating in their headphones.

I think people will always find a way to *****. Particularly the trolls who don't care about the actual sport and bring punch stats up to apologetically defend their idols.

 

i like the new glove technology and i believe it should be used in conjunction with...not as a replacement. also...training...standardization....sobriety and vision tests are all needed.