The judging in boxing..Can it be improved?

Huh? Fighter A of course. It would be a statisitically viable result. If one was to award 1 point for a draw and 3 for a win then fighter A would have 8 points and fighter B would have 5.

This would also reward aggression in a fight. It makes a lot of sense.

Why would they have to have sound piped in? You can easily separate the picture and audio. It is also possible to turn the volume down on the TV screen they are watching.

 

No it doesn't, how would fighter A win? 3 judges had him not winning. Meaning he didn't win. You can't assign point values because that is an even bigger mess, lets say 4 judges have it a draw and 1 has it a win for fighter A, fighter a wins. even though fighter A to a super majority of people's opinions didn't win. The Five judges theory doesn't work.

 

For me the biggest flaw in judging is that rounds always seem to be scored to one fighter or another, even when they are extremely close. I think judges should score close rounds as 9-9 or 10-10 (doesn't matter which). Otherwise you can have a 12 round fight with one guy winning 4 rounds decisively, the other guy winning no rounds decisively and 8 close rounds and the guy who won no rounds wins the fight if the judges give him the close rounds.

 

Moving the judges further back is an idea. I think there should also be professional training for judges, (just like there is a training period for most jobs) meetings with them to review and have them explain their scores if they turn in weird scorecards, penalties or firing for favoring fighters due to factors like race, country of origin, etc.

After the quality of judges improves, I'd then like to tinker with the scoring a little, so that if a fighter wins a round closely it can be 10-9, but 10-8 if he wins it big or clearly, a flash KD can still be scored a 10-9 but a major knockdown will count for at least a 10-8, and so on.

 

Most judging on fights is pretty accurate. Not much more you can do except have 6 judges instead of 3.

 

I don't like the idea of judges watching it on a T.V screen.... I would rather them be there ringside. Sometimes you can better tell who is actually landing harder shots by being ringside.

 

I agree. you throw 1000 punches you win.

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