Scoring even rounds. I love it.

yes

 

If I find myself contemplating who just got the best of a session then I just score it even. That's the way forward.

 

I score good rounds that are quite even 10-10. If I see a round where the fighters stand around like they're waiting for a ****ing bus, it's 9-9.

 

I score all rounds without a knockdown or point deduction even rounds, I can't help myself, it's an obsession

 

I think if you're bothering to score a fight, put forth the effort and think hard about who deserves it more. If you score an even round you may as well just watch the damn fight and put the pencil and paper down.

If it's your JOB to score the fight...there is no excuse for a professionally judged even round, ever.

 

I give the close rounds to the guy who is taller. Taller people earn more on average. They get more dates, and are more likely to be content with their lives. The taller guy always wins in political elections. It only stands to reason that they should be given the benefit of the doubt in close rounds.

Seriously, I tend to try and find a winner in close rounds. Because that's how they instruct judges, but I do make a little mark to dentoe rounds that were tough to score.

 

I think it's ok to score very close rounds even, but only when it's really hard to tell the diffirence. And technically a round can be scored even, if neither boxer shows ring generalship and both boxers land an equal amount of punches that round. Besides a very close round can usually be scored either way depending on your perspective, so sometimes scoring a round 10-10 is the most sensible. If you are against scoring rounds even, you could argue that an entire fight should never end in a draw, because it should be much easier to tell the difference between two men after 12 rds than after 1.

 

edit: even when a fight ends even because of each fighter winning his half of the rounds, the judges could have in mind in the last two rounds whom they thought had the edge in the fight if a kd or nothing else helps them make the decision..

 

I think there would be less contraversial decisions if more rounds were scored even and if more rounds where there is a very clear winner were scored 10-8 instead of just almost every round without a KD being 10-9 to someone.

 

A very long time ago i read a book that said maybe judges only give even rounds because they are incompetent and can't find a winner to the round by observing and analysing it as fully as it could be. The book said 'maybe' (or something like that) so it wasn't saying that was definitely the case with evenly scored rounds, just provoking the thought from the reader. Anyway, ever since i read that i have nevr given an even round, ever. Boxing is so subjective, and not a science with strict criteria, so over three minuted there's gotta be something that splits two men, right? Who knows for sure.

I asked this in the classic a while back and Sweet Scientist put forth the best argument i've come across for even rounds. I still don't give them though.

BTW, if you go by my philosophy and try scoring one of the early rounds (don't remember which) of Tito Trinidad vs Kevin Lueshing then it's a complete nightmare.

 

there are also cases where a knock down does not merit a 10-8 round.

 

Say if fighter A kd's fighter B, but fighter B totally dominates the round except for the flash kd, then i would, in my mind think that should be 9-9. What's the practiced method in this situation then?

I was thinking fighter B won the round, so that's 10-9 to him, but A knocked him down so that's basically a point taken off the knocked down fighter so it's 9-9. Right? Or not? Thanks if you can clear this up for me.