The more I think about it, the more I think that open scoring after every round should be how it should be. Closed scoring only surprises fans at the end of the fight.

In any other sport, you know what the score is and you adjust accordingly. It would only make sense that boxing would be the same. I also think that it would really fix bad judging if you saw their score after every round. It would be much harder to continue to judge bad round after bad round.

Closed scoring is just a tradition. It’s one of the many things we just live with without really thinking about. I know that people want to avoid a fighter who has a lead to just start running, but that happens in every sport. That’s just the way it is. It forces the one losing to go for the knockout though which is better.