Scoring blood? What do you think?

Duran deserves a mention

 

It can be evidence of "effective aggression" so yes, it would be factored in to some degree.

I wouldn't say it as good as getting "wobbled badly" because a cut is sometimes just one of those things -not enough vaseline, Irish ethnicity, scar tissue, etc.

 

I only score on blood if there's enough to blood to write the letters 'WAR' with on the guys forehead.

 

The only way to truly conquer a foe is to draw rivers of blood from their festering, open wounds. I view any and all fights where this does not occur as farcical no contests.

 

Tko6.

 

Whenever a fighter is cut, by a punch, or a headbutt, I always give a two point swing.

 

I remember one poster made a thread on here furiously challenging Lampley's constant assertion, or "myth", that judges score blood and that rational scorers are somehow fooled by blood.

 

if the cut was caused by a headbutt, i.e. not initially caused by a fighter's fists, then I don't factor it into the scoring. Hence, I wouldn't reward Holyfield if he gashed somebody open with a headbutt, nor was my scoring in Mosley-DLH II affected when Mosley opened that cut on DLH's head with a headbutt. I think DLH bleeding certainly did sway some of the judges in that fight though, and it was wrong.

If fighter A controls most of the pace and seems to land more effective blows, but fighter B cuts A and shows little/no damage from fighter A's offense, then I'd be inclined to score for fighter B in the round the cut happens in.

The rest of the scoring in a fight with such a situation would be determined by how much worse the cut/facial damage gets, obviously.

 

Though "First blood" is always noteworthy, cuts often have a baring on a fight but should not automaticly result in the winning of a round. many times a cut comes from the last moments of a round like Holyfeild Holmes so you cannot say, even though it causes an advantage, that the round should go to who ever scores "first blood" IMO.

 

In general I don't think blood means anything. If a punch happens to land and open the skin, it doesn't necessarily mean it was a harder or cleaner punch, which is what the criteria should focus on. It seems like a superficial detail more than it does a definitive sign of success in terms of points.

 

Depends. If a fighter is doing more damage to his opponent then his opponent, but landing less punches I usually score it for the fighter doing the most damage.