What to do about boxing judges?

[elcolibri]

I wanted to know what you guys thought should be done reform judges in boxing. Should ex-fighters be judges? Open scoring? Other ideas? Nothing has ever been done about the epidemic of bad judging decisions. Whether it be Macklin/Sturm or Cloud/Campillo, judges have consistently fucked up. Of course there are good ones, like the judges who scored the Rubio/Chavez fight and two of the judges for the Donaire/Vasquez fight. Let me know what your ideas are. I'm interested in hearing them

Interesting discussion here.

You guys may be interested in this site I helped build called Eye On The Ring. It's like Rotten Tomatoes, except instead of films, there's fights you can score (and rate). But the principle idea is a collective repository for fan cards. When the group of us who started the site had discussions about why we should build it, bad judging was a main issue discussed. (To be fair, I know of at least one other site that does what we do. But we hope to add so much more extra analysis to our data that we expect to be the best.)

Also this is the first time I've heard of the idea of a fourth judge. (I'm a new fan! Only got into boxing over the last couple few years...) But I don't know if more judges really will help.

[elcolibri]

I wanted to know what you guys thought should be done reform judges in boxing. Should ex-fighters be judges? Open scoring? Other ideas? Nothing has ever been done about the epidemic of bad judging decisions. Whether it be Macklin/Sturm or Cloud/Campillo, judges have consistently fucked up. Of course there are good ones, like the judges who scored the Rubio/Chavez fight and two of the judges for the Donaire/Vasquez fight. Let me know what your ideas are. I'm interested in hearing them

Interesting discussion here.

You guys may be interested in this site I helped build called Eye On The Ring. It's like Rotten Tomatoes, except instead of films, there's fights you can score (and rate). But the principle idea is a collective repository for fan cards. When the group of us who started the site had discussions about why we should build it, bad judging was a main issue discussed. (To be fair, I know of at least one other site that does what we do. But we hope to add so much more extra analysis to our data that we expect to be the best.)

Also this is the first time I've heard of the idea of a fourth judge. (I'm a new fan! Only got into boxing over the last couple few years...) But I don't know if more judges really will help.

Forgot to add link. But tried and can't until I have more posts -- you can find it at eye on the ring dot com if needed.