Rounds that should be scord 10-8

It's subjective.

Sometimes you just know a 10-8 round when you see one.

Same with a 10-9 with a knockdown.

 

think of it this way. Sometimes 2 fighters have an extremely competitive round and the winner gets it because of one weak punch that he landed over his opponent. Do you think its fair that someone who wins a round by a hair gets a 10-9, while someone who beats the **** out of his opponent for an entire round gets the same score?

Obviously the 10 point system is flawed, but it is what it is and i think its fair that a round that is totally dominated can be scored 10-8. Often a fighter gets his ass whooped and then doesn't get kd'd cause he clinches the whole time.

 

Some rounds with KDs, I can see it not being 10-8 if one guy is losing badly and scores a knockdown. For instance, Trinidad was beating Mayorga pretty badly in round 4(?) and then Mayorga scored a KD, then Tito still did some good work after the KD. I don't know about that being 10-8 for Mayorga.

If a guy gets brutalized but stays on his feet, I can still see it being 10-8, such as Golota-Bowe round 7 in the rematch, or Mayweather-Gatti round 6.

 

I felt 12th round of Collazo-Hatton should have been 10-8.

That is how I scored the 12th, and the fight was a draw on my card because of it.

I give Ricky credit for surviving the round, but he was holding like crazy, and really should have been warned.

Only reason I used that fight as an example, is because I just watched it again today.

Then again, I can't score a fight for ****.

 

You make a good point.

I don't think judges hand out 10-8 rounds like candy anyways, so it's not a big deal.

 

Gotcha.

I think you make valid points bud.

:thumbsup

 

Haha!

You bet it did.

Nobody questioned your manhood or called you an Oscarsexual.

Two big hurdles here, when starting any thread.

 

You probably do not want to watch the Czyz/O'Mara from a few years back then. Bobby won a clear shutout, but did not floor George; two judges had it 100/90, the other 100/71.

The fatal flaw in ten point must is that whether you win the round because you landed an extra jab, or because you dominated but did not floor your opponent the round is scored 10/9. Thus a fighter could in theory get a draw in a 12 rounder by landing a single extra jab in six rounds, and could be pasted but not knockdown in the other six...

That is why as much as it pains me to say it, a Hearns/LeonardII was no robbery. If you score it properly you struggle to get it better than 113/112 to Hearns, thus a draw seems fair.

Personally I would like to see a system where the judges just judge who won the round. If a judge awards two points to the person who they think won the round, or one each if they think it is even. Theese scores are combined together; then if all three judges score a round to one fighter that fighter gets a bonus two points, thus a fighter could win a round 8/0.

Six points would be awarded for knocking down your opponent, and a referee could take between one and six points off a fighter for an infriogement depending on the seriousness of it.

Thus if a fighter dominates a round, but does not score a knockdown, then in the next round loses a close round, two judges to one, he would lead the fight 10/4, rather than the fight being so even on scorecards (19-19, 19-19, 20-18.).

 

I think that a 10-8 round without a KD should be when a fighter gets outclassed ala Gatti-Mayweather, or if a fighter gets hurt somewhere in the middle of the round and spends the rest of the round just running and holding.

A 10-9 round with a knockdown could be if a fighter gets a flash knockdown and the other guy gets up immediately and fights back enough to show the judges that he is not hurt at all.