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I was thinking about this yesterday while I watched Mayweather vs Castillo 1 for the 3rd time. (Another post saying Mayweather got gifted prompted me to watch it AGAIN) I still had Mayweather winning just like the previous 2 times. I thought he built up too big of a lead in the first 4-5 rounds and definitely nicked 2-3 of the final 6.
For the record I think everybody should watch PBF vs JLC 1 with the sound off and ignoring Harold Lederman's stupid ass scorecard. He scored a round 9-9 when Castillo got a point deduction. Doesn't a 10 point must system mean somebody MUST score 10? So it should have been a 10-8 round for Floyd. Harold is a strawb. JLC did an awesome job of cutting off the ring though in that fight. Havn't seen anybody corner Floyd like that.

Anyway, back to the topic title. I think it's real simple..We will always score fights favourably for fighters that we are fans of simply because...They're our favourites!! Which means we enjoy watching them box and that we enjoy their style (Hence why they are our fave!) So when I'm seeing Mayweather doing his thing against Castillo, I'm scoring rounds for him because that's what I want to see. I like that style of fighting. When Pacquaio fans are scoring the fight in favour of the Pac Man against Marquez..it's because they LIKE his style and they like what they see! Hence, to them, Manny wins the round.
I guess it's the same for the judges..they score on what they personally like to see.

I hope i'm making sense here, it is obviously just a theory but it makes sense to me. How many Calzaghe fans had him winning against Hopkins yet how many Neutrals and Non-Calzaghe fans had Hopkins winning? Same with Ricky Hatton and Luis Collazo - As a neutral I thought Hatton nicked it by virtue of his early knockdown. Most thought he lost unless they were Hatton fans. There are lots of examples of this on these forums and everywhere.
To an extent you are right, we do like to favor our favorite in a fight and try to look at everything they do in a bout as if it is helping them win it. I like to see a fight a few times myself before making a definite answer. It always seems you catch something the second or third time around you missed before.

Ive often conjured up a system when watching my favourite boxers hatton/mosley/calzaghe/maccarinelli/cook etc whereby i score it on 2 different counts the 1st being what i hope the eventual decision will be and the 2nd what i expect.

Its so hard to accurately analyse 2 fighters when you have certain affections for said fighter.

I had sugar shane beating cotto 116-112 when i originally watched it and only now after seeing it again do i realise the correct decision was for cotto.