dalcumly wrote: ↑03 Dec 2018, 04:59
Its not about cliches ( you have to rip the belt from the champ sort of thing). Its a matter of scoring each round by judges on an agreed criteria. Looking at the scorecards, and scoring the fight by using the majority result in each round ( that is if 2 judges score the round 10-9, and the other 9-10, then the majority scoring counts) Fury wins the fight convincingly.
The Mexican judge was simply either incompetent or corrupt. Nobody , that means nobody, scored all those early rounds for Wilder. I don't believe even Wilder looking back on the fight today could agree with that judge.
Phil Edwards was determined not to be biased and as he realised he was scoring a lot of rounds to Fury thought he'd better even things up a bit and awarded the 7th to Wilder when clearly it was a Fury round.
I say again, when employing 3 judges the best thing is to take the 'majority' scoring for each round, and what that does is take out incompetent/corrupt official.
I don't recall any journalist actually investigating the background of the judges being used for these critical contests.
In this country we don't have the problem. Our judges are current top level referees. Elsewhere that's not the case. In Nevada for example all you need to do is show an interest in boxing and become friends with an official and your halfway there.
What has happened for example to that 'clown' who scored the first Alvarez v Golovkin fight? I bet you she's now back judging and all is forgiven.
Majority scoring doesn't work. For this fight it would, but the vast majority of controversial decisions stay the same using that system.
Some fights even go the other way, meaning a correct decision under the current system, becomes a robbery under the majority system (Jason Maloney would have knocked Manny Rodriguez out of the WBSS, for example).
If a judge submits a dodgy card, it needs to not count for anything at all. The current system, and using the dodgy card to determine a majority, are both wrong. The card needs to be excluded completely.
The way to do that, is have 5 judges, then exclude the most extreme score on both ends. The middle 3 make up the official result. That way, if a judge deliberately (or just as a result of incompetence) weights his/her card in favour of a particular fighter, chances are their score won't count towards anything. Take olympic diving or gymnastics etc as an example.