Why has boxing not evolved with the times?

[Kel]

A replay even in limited circumstances would have stopped the robbery in the Soto fight at the weekend.

Yeah but if the recipient of the illegal hit knows its filmed and anylised he could play act and get the other guy disqualified anyway.

[boozeboxer]

Why does everyone want things to change? I dont understand. Maybe I am throwback. But I am happy that we have one of the least regulated sports in the world.

[C-Lo]

Why has boxing opted to stay in the early 1900's and not make use of new technology like every other mainstream sport? We have all this new crazy technology, camera angles, video analysis, and we still rely on one guy (ref), under extreme pressure, to make snap decisions and etch them in stone.

We have computer generated statistics that tell us how many punches each fighter landed in a particular round. Again, we have 100 different camera angles and picture clear video quality. Yet we still rely on 3 judges at ringside to tell us who won, when they really can't see the action unless the two fighters are positioned near them at that particular time.

Me and a friend had this argument the other day. He likes things the way they are because it adds excitement and drama to the sport. But only at the cost of an athlete's livelihood. Soto will go home with a LOSS despite beating the holy hell out of his opponent, proving without a doubt he was the better man, because one guy made a split second decision that he hit his opponent over the head while he was down, while everyone in the world knows the punch barely touched him.

Anyone else getting fed up with this kind of stuff?

I think the 3 judges are necessary. One person on compubox could outland the other, but if the other fighter is doing way more damage with less punches, stats won't exactly prove the winner there. If we let technology decide winners, it would be heavily criticized. Imagine technology scoring a figure skaters set? It wouldn't exactly work. I understand the whole Soto decision could've used a replay. (Pretty sure Cortez would've let his decision stand EVEN WITH VIDEO REPLAY because I bet his pride would get the best of him).

I don't think boxing has any major flaws in its system. It's worked throughout time and if it aint broke, don't fix it. Some things are just part of the game such as robberies and Joe Cort...I mean bad refs..

[amat]

It has evolved. For one we have the 10 point must scoring system which actually made knockdowns count for something. I've seen on boxrec before fighters who have been down 5 times throughout a bout in the old days but still won the majority of rounds and the decision.

That's been one key, obviously all the rule changes most notably the changing of how many rounds which I think ultimately is a good thing. There is replay in New Jersey like they mentioned on the broadcast but I haven't seen it used yet.

I hope they can show replays better then ESPN does though because it seems I am always waiting for hours to get a replay there. Literally I don't know if it's intentional but it takes forever there.