Open scoring sucks!

How did you have it? I had it about 117-111 or somewhere around there? I think hbo had it closer than I did.

 

I agree. And even worse is that informing the corners of the scoring between rounds can alter the natural course of the fight. For instance, tonight when Morales' corner received the judges' scores through 8 rounds, they were furious and told Morales to try for a knockout. He goes out in round 11 and gets dropped and nearly knocked out himself because he was gunning for a stoppage. Had the scores not been disclosed to the corners, perhaps things would've unfolded differently.

Basically, they should just let the fight reach it's natural conclusion rather than interfere and complicate things. Luckily, it seems this open scoring is only used in Texas and some foreign countries so far.

 

Well, its either kill the anticipation, or have outrages with surprise robberies...

 

i dont like it either

 

true that **** is garbage. Texas as whole is garbage when it comes to boxing tho

 

They were much closer than Morales' trainer was saying. Even after a 10-8 11th and 10-9 12th round losses, two of the cards still had it within 4 and 5 points. I think I had it 116-111. I gave Morales rounds 2, 4, 5, and I think it was 8. Theoretically, it would have inspired Morales to keep pushing on the gas through the 12th.

 

Didn;t bother to watch it after the horrendous undercard debacle.

 

Open scoring after every round should be done then we know when people like Van Hoy are trying to screw a fighter and the fans.

 

I don't like it either, I wanna fight it.

 

Open scoring ruins fights.

 

Well, I'm not a fan of the 10 point must system in general, or at least the way it is applied. You can give a boxing lesson and still only win the round by one point. Get knocked down while off balance and you lose the round by 10 even if you were otherwise winning it in most cases.

 

The scoring should simply be just in the first place.