Quote Originally Posted by p4pking View Post
Well I think you have to imagine they are for the most part. I myself almost always give rounds to the fighter I feel inflicted more damage, which is sometimes tricky for me being very partial to slick fighters who move a lot. Obviously cuts caused by flush shots are very telling of the quality of punches. If you are suggesting that there be a finite way to factor them into scoring though? It's completely impossible. First off some fighters are just so much more prone to being cut than others, it'd be completely unfair to put a real scoring emphasis on aesthetics like that. Arturo Gatti would've never won a decision in his life. Secondly, you often see cuts caused by glancing blows that are anything but damaging punches otherwise. If it were known to be a scoring criterium regardless of the punches causing cuts you'd have guys trying to thumb each other or use the palm of gloves in the clinch etc.
Nice post.

I NEVER hear Harold Lederman (as one example) talk about cuts in his scoring. Nor anyone else.

Fighters prone to being cut is too damned bad. That's part of my point. I mean it isn't the guy who lands the harder punches who matters, it is the guy who lands the punches the other guy can't handle, right? So why is a weak chin any different from being prone to cuts?

As for the last point, this leading to muggings? Good point!