Open Scoring

[Zilla]

I gotta play Devil's Advocate here. In every other sport don't all the teams have the right to know how many points they've scored? Saying that boxing is different sounds like an excuse to take away a boxer's right to know how well he's doing. If he gets on a bike and rides the rest of the fight, isn't that the other fighter's fault for not being a better fighter? And sure, a fighter might dial it back if he knows he's ahead, but conversely, might not the other fighter fight harder? Also, if a fighter would have thought he was ahead by several rounds but sees it's only tied up fight harder? If the fight is tied going into the later rounds, is that not impetus for both to do more than they have rather than assume they're being their opponents. To assume that boxers would only fight less if open scoring were available, well, wouldn't that be only a half-assed assumption? It seems to me, a fairer way of giving fans the exact same thing.

And we're only talking about the exceptions. Most times when a fighter assumes he's ahead he really is. You already have guys who will cruise, except with open scoring, at least they won't be deluding themselves. And many fighters who know they're ahead still try to close out the show.

Opponents to open scoring are painting with a broad brush what will only really affect a handful of fights every year.

Mayweather had to have known he was beating Marquez, but he didn't hang back. He banged away at Marquez. Pacquiao probably wouldn't have cared what the scoring cards stated; he took Cotto's head off. Where is this list of fighters everyone is so concerned about coasting?