Scoring Fights From Your Living Room Is Unreliable

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And what of the ringside situation where the action is in an area that one judge is behind the back of a fighter and cant see or behind the ref and they cant see who or whats landing?

Two thoughts. One is that is why there are three judges from different sides of the ring and second, that is why sound also sometimes matters.

I am NOT arguing rings judging is perfect. I am arguing it is a sufficiently different experience that we should not be surprised when it leads to different scoring. I would also say ringside judging is what we've always had and I see no other superior option that we should change it to.

I would take ringside judging over another that we have had and that is the Ref being the sole deciding factor in a contest. I'm not sure there was-is much oversight in that situation but many a fight had a situation where ref could 'structure' the flow as rounds went and make all calls regarding outcome...at the end raising one hand or both. Not entirely sure if they still judge in this manner but was very odd to me.

I mean really, what options do we have? If every armchair fan had a real impact with every shout we would have a Fantasy football or something. But boxing is indeed perseption and a matter of pick your poison.