I Don't Get It

[ElTerribleMorales]

This whole concept of "if you want to beat the champion you've got to take it from him", you hear this in a variety of ways and none of them make sense.

Aren't fights scored on a ten point must system round by round? If you think the challenger won 7 rounds to 5 is that not enough to win the championship?

If you're a proponent of this theory do you give the champion a built in lead before each round? Because otherwise it makes no sense.

You have to score a fight round by round so there must be some kind of abstract "champions advantage", like an imaginary punch or two a round is credited to the champion. Is this what Lampley has been doing for years in ODLH fights? Big right hand.

Could somebody explain this to me. It makes no sense. Shouldn't the guy who won more rounds be the guy declared the winner?

BTW this is not Froch-Dirrell related. That was just one bought off ref and I guess one that didn't like Dirrell's style.

i agree that it's bull, i mean if it's championship fight they make it 12 rounds, giving each fighter more time to prove who's the best out of the two, if the challenger wins seven straight, then loses every other round but isn't knocked down, he still deserves to win the title, he just didn't do it impressively

[Fenster]

I remember when I first heard that as a boy, even then thinking it's unfair that the champion starts with an advantage.

Clearly it's ridiculous.

I reckon it's an outdated idea.. yet still waffled by boxing pundits/journos so naturally gets repeated by fans.

[AdamGB]

If you say it, I don't think you're agreeing with the statement, you're just saying that if it's close round/fight then the judges are probably wearing 'champ tinted glasses' and are going to see it in the champ's favour.

it's like if you say "fighting in so and so's back yard... you need to knock him out to win' it doesn't mean you're saying that there is some rule in place that means you have to knock a fighter out in his home town in order to get a win, just that you think the judges will favour him.

[OumaFan]

well I don't think people always say it like that, some people seem to just agree with the concept in general but yes its also a justification for bad or iffy judging sometimes.