Quote Originally Posted by Lords Gym
The drama in boxing is not knowing for sure where you are on the cards . Keeps both fighters in the mindset of maintaining good solid production (work rate) regardless of what they and their corners may think. , the thought of a clumsy judge keeps you looking for offensive opportunities thru the course of a match , when a fighter knows that he is way up in the match by telling him the total on the cards , especially in close rounds , rounds in which he would not have otherwise known he won. allows him to simply skate thru the last part of a match taking the determination out of the combatant and , leaving the other guy plain frustrated. also leaving the crowd with a potentially boring match for the last few rounds. . Surviving is too easy in boxing , when it’s your only goal.

Trust me , that match would have ended in a knockout had there not been open scoring. You can bank on that !
I really don't follow this. Surely having Bell (the KO puncher of the two) know that he absolutely needed a KO (or at least 2 knockdowns) in the last 4 rounds to win the fight made a KO far more likely than it otherwise would have been. The problem was that with the heat, Bell had no energy whatsoever (to go along with his utter lack of speed).