WBA: No Open Scoring!

[amat]

i don't see why people are against it so much. i can understand why people don't like it but to say it on of the worst idea's in boxing history is going overboard. it think its a good attempt at trying clean up boxing it's sometimes poor scoring. maybe having the judge have to have his scores announced after each round will make judges stop giving rounds to the more popular fighter when he's not winning. i really don't know what will happen but to say that it's one of the worst idea in boxing history is alittle over the top. especially when almost every fight you see on TV is a title fight figure that one out.

How would open scoring help prevent corrupt scoring? Judges get bad cards attributed to their name at the end of the fight what difference does it make if it's during the fight?

[The Boxer]

i said in my post that i didn't know what would happen. my point was that people should not come down on the people who are making an effort to help boxing.

[BrooklyniteQueen]

they should ONLY do open scoring in a close fight....like maybe a fight like Corrales Castillo... THEN its suspenseful...

[amat]

i said in my post that i didn't know what would happen. my point was that people should not come down on the people who are making an effort to help boxing.

I don't think that's an effort to help boxing though. And scorecards right now are the least of boxings problem. Boxing doesn't need any tweak to the rule books and it definitely doesn't need the air taken out of the arena by open scoring. I get your point and sorry if I came off hostile but I just hate open scoring. I really do not understand it. I'm far from a purist and am open to change but this is one instance where I just think the powers that be are just going in the complete wrong direction.

The 13th round for fights scored a draw was an idea where it wasn't effective, but was at least trying to better boxing. This is one where I don't even think they are trying to better boxing so much as they are trying to change it.