Should judges award more 10-10 rounds? Would it improve fights?

I've always felt judges and posters are WAY to reluctant to call rounds draws. If you've got a highly debatable round, it should be a draw. Anything else leads to bad results. You win a round by a. Kds B. Hurting the opponent C. Clearly out landing an opponent. If you don't have those going for you, then an even round should be a default position only changed when someone really distinguishes themselves in aggressiveness ring generalship etc.

 

Agree, 10/8 rounds should be used more as well.

 

This would be a great way to do it

 

I thought they only recently did the whole after 4 rounds reveal the scores not actually round by round...1 factor you missed was that (and as we have seen from the recent big fight)is that scoring rounds can be subjective and is done by humans who have different opinions therefore I think a boxer and his team should he entitled to know how the judges for that fight are judging you instead of finding out after the fight?

In reference to your point of boxers going into a shell if they are losing heavily ie 4/5 rounds then that is their problem boxing is every bit as mental as it is physical...it definitely seems like a fairer way of doing things

 

Well lets say two fighters are having what appears to be a very close entertaining fight. (where every round is pretty much a toss up) Lets say when the judges scores are revealed halfway or 2/3s through the fight, the scores are heavily one-sided.

Lets say after 8 rounds it's like 7-1 when everyone watching thought it was like 4-4 or 5-3. Well then you'd have a situation where one guy would have to get desperate when he otherwise wouldn't have. He may be thinking he's winning, but told he has no mathematical chance to win a decision with 4 or 5 rounds to go. Well then it would be creating controversey during a fight, which could change the way it plays out.

It's bad enough for a robbery to occur at the conclusion of a fight. But when you know for a fact what the scores are then if you're winning you know how many rounds you could give away and still win. It could cause fighters that are winning to be super defensive if they were up by a couple of rounds. If you don't know what the scores are, then you are going to fight your fight more. You may still try for a KO regardless, but the guy who's winning on the cards won't be as inclined to just run out the clock.

Open scoring sounds great in theory, but this isn't like soccer where you know what a goal is and there's no debate as to who is actually winning. Not knowing who is winning is partly what makes boxing exciting. You can guess as to what the scores are, you can have an idea that you may need a knockout to win, but there's a healthy unknown to the scores that creates more of an incentive for both fighters to go all out every round if that makes sense.

 

When I see people on here and scene post cards with multiple 10-10 rounds I throw up in my mouth a bit.

 

Did W-Kovalev have 10-10 scores by judges?

As a judge I doubt both fighters BOTH threw effective punches, showed the same level of ring generalship etc

So no a 10-9 system should stick. IT's that way for a reason

 

Bring back 15 rounders instead to solve the problem of thin decisions. When the champions only fight every 6 months they can go 15.

 

what they should do is start using the 10 points system; what good it does if all rounds are scored 10-9 no matter if its a close round or not

 

Yes, I'm a proponent of 10-10 rounds.

The scoring system or the way it is utilized is seriously flawed.
It makes absolutely no sense to score a CLEAR round 10-9 at then score a "razor-close" round 10-9.
And if a round is so close that you wouldn't even strongly debate it being scored the reverse of your score, then surely it should have been 10-10.