Open Scoring: Does it make fighters quit?

Really? You can't think of any other reason why somebody might want to stop a fight at a very specific point?

Maybe it was the open scoring and maybe it wasn't, but there are several explanations as to why that might have happened.

 

Open Scoring is shitty because if I am up big I am not going to take the same risks If I don't think I can finish a guy or am in any danger of getting caught, same goes for the opposite, guys with little power might quit or their corners might stop it because there isn't any point after the announced score.

 

Im somewhat ok if boxers here the score but to be honest as a fan i like the suspense i did not mind when they installed it but then when it ruined my viewing if they told the fighters but not the fans then it might be ok.

But it changes fights Bell Mormeck 2 was a slugfest and when Mormeck heard he was ahead he ran eliminating Bell from scoring a late KO like the first fight

 

Yes, and that's part of the intent of open scoring - to prevent injury by having corners throw in the towel when their fighter is hopelessly behind.

 

Yeah. I hate the open scoring.

 

There is absolutly no doubt that open scoring can make fighters quit, or if not that, then at least take the fight out of them and give them a resignaton type mindset.

It can take a fighters morale away from him in a big way.

Why do you think the military uses propaganda to rally an army. Morale affects fighters just like it does any other one of us.

Open scoring has no buisness being in a sport where small things like this can make the difference.

 

Cintron/williams... as well as cintron/martinez

 

:deal

That fat trash talker was about to get KTFO and it was spoilt by the open scoring making him quit like a *****. Spoiling an all time great comeback.

Circumstances like that show how open scoring sucks the big one.

 

Why would it only change things for boxing? Plenty of sports have open scoring. You can either look at it as glass half empty or half full. You decide.

 

But surely a fighter knows when he's way down on points anyway? Take Sam Peter vs. Vitali. Surely he would know anyway?

 

Open scoring makes fighters run more than anything.

 

Depends. If a fighter is losing rounds in teh eyes of the viewing public but has been very competitive in nearly each and every round then he might think otherwise. He might think, "I'm doing great!" Not fully realizing that's he's only doing enough to lose.