Hear me out.
This is probably a pretty crazy idea, but I just wanted to get the opinion of this forum.
With the amount of bad decisions we have and given how much is riding on the correct or fairest decision being made, should live judging be thrown out the window and have a panel go through the fights that go the distance with a fine toothed comb post event? We have the kind of technology nowadays, where you could seriously get down to the nitty gritty. I think live judging is an archaic means that they used in the early days of Boxing because they had to make up their minds since there was no footage, no way of going back and reviewing.
I think judging a fight, especially a close fight, in the moment is a flawed system honestly. Look at all of the bad or controversial decisions we've had over the years. The people they have aren't just incompetent, they're also seeing things in the moment that APPEAR to be meaningful but actually aren't(look at the Fight Metric stats for example, they can often be horse shit). I'll be more specific. Looking at the tape you can see alot of Wonderboy's shots really didn't have much on them, should they be considered power shots just because they aren't jabs? Tapping or barely hitting a guy shouldn't register as a power shot in my book.
After watching the fight live myself I thought Wonderboy had it, but when I actually looked at the tape closely I saw it was clear as mud. Could be a draw, could've gone either way. I lean towards Till because I feel like Thompson didn't land as many significant strikes as people think and because in the 4th(which was the swing round) Till did just a bit more.
What do you all think?
This is probably a pretty crazy idea, but I just wanted to get the opinion of this forum.
With the amount of bad decisions we have and given how much is riding on the correct or fairest decision being made, should live judging be thrown out the window and have a panel go through the fights that go the distance with a fine toothed comb post event? We have the kind of technology nowadays, where you could seriously get down to the nitty gritty. I think live judging is an archaic means that they used in the early days of Boxing because they had to make up their minds since there was no footage, no way of going back and reviewing.
I think judging a fight, especially a close fight, in the moment is a flawed system honestly. Look at all of the bad or controversial decisions we've had over the years. The people they have aren't just incompetent, they're also seeing things in the moment that APPEAR to be meaningful but actually aren't(look at the Fight Metric stats for example, they can often be horse shit). I'll be more specific. Looking at the tape you can see alot of Wonderboy's shots really didn't have much on them, should they be considered power shots just because they aren't jabs? Tapping or barely hitting a guy shouldn't register as a power shot in my book.
After watching the fight live myself I thought Wonderboy had it, but when I actually looked at the tape closely I saw it was clear as mud. Could be a draw, could've gone either way. I lean towards Till because I feel like Thompson didn't land as many significant strikes as people think and because in the 4th(which was the swing round) Till did just a bit more.
What do you all think?