ayrmad

I can't see much I've posted on this fight that's a nightmare, I can only assume you're looking for the exit door.

There's always a difference no matter how subtle. Tell me how subtly you scored each round.

Give us your point then.

Judges aren't only required to score a round they're required to know if it's a close 10-9, a comfortable 10-9 or a 10-9 verging on 10-8, having looked at some cards over the years some judges are quite clearly being biased or they actually don't have the competence to judge what the following 4 criteria actually means. Clean punching (power versus quantity). Effective aggressiveness. Ring generalship. Defense. There was certainly rounds in the middle of that fight that you could not give to Kovalev if you understand what is required to meet those criteria.

So you've not watched it sober and you can categorically say than anyone giving a 10-10 round is a cop out, guid yin, I spent 25 years in the taxi game and I can assure you that a sober man sees the world differently from one that has had 2 pints never mind your average Scottish "I never had that much" mans night in the pub.

Here is the proper wording. “the winner of each round will [i.e. “must”] receive 10 points, (minus any points deductions for fouls) with the lesser score awarded to the loser of the round (minus any points deductions for fouls).6 There are to be no fraction of points awarded, and in the event of an even round, the score will be 10/10. Even rounds should rarely, if ever happen.” The "Even rounds should rarely, if ever happen" is an ABC guideline in the referees and judges certification process,it doesn't appear in the rules of either the WBA or WBO. Regarding how rarely they should happen, they should and will happen from time to time if you're being totally fair and as such there is always the probability that more than one will occur in a single fight.

Does anyone have a link to a rerun of the Ward fight?

When did judges not have the luxury of dishing out 10-10 rounds? If they are just blindly dishing out rounds when there's no discernible difference then it's little wonder that boxing's reputation for dodgy results is increasing markedly, It's not a common occurrence for me to call rounds 10-10 but I'm not skewing a scorecard just to suit some bawbags that are more interested in looking after the interests of those outside the ring making cash. If you had 6 really close rounds between Manny and a major hate figure then Manny is always going to draw the fight even if he got rag-dolled in the other 6.

I think it was the sort of fight that proves the scoring system isn't entirely foolproof. You could confidently give 3 or 4 rounds in a row to a fighter but if you didn't score them individually that group of rounds was actually quite close.

There were at least 2 where 10-10 was probably the correct call regardless of how you judge rounds, I know I was eachy peachy on 1 10-10 between 5-8 as I posted Kov by 1 or 2 after 8.

5 or 6 points isn't edging it in my book.

What I will say is that I didn't actually keep note of who I'd given what rounds to and that numpties joke of a scorecard they kept putting up could quite easily lead you to over-estimate Kovalev when you're constantly remembering the rounds that have went previously, I don't understand why they employ anyone who quite blatantly gave definite Ward rounds to Kovalev.

I'd have to watch it again as there are 2 or 3 of those that I didn't see it that way in real time, there was one of the 1st 4 rounds that I could have given to Ward but I can't remember 2.

I couldn't find 9 rounds in that fight for Ward and I'll nearly always favour his style.

The problem in this instance was allowing the Royal family to duck out of constant remedial work with their own cash then expecting us to pick up the tab as it's now a really big number.

I think that enhanced his reputation, if he had waited another round to get back into it he would have been too late. It certainly wouldn't have been the route to a Ward points victory that many expected. Credit must go to Kovalev as well as it looked like Ward was going to outclass him at one point in the middle rounds.

That's how it's hard to score, there were rounds where Ward landed a handful of good punches to Kov just coming forward without really landing many with weight, I tend to give those rounds to the heavy puncher, others will be different. I wanted Ward to win but I don't know how anyone can read that fight as a heavy margin for Ward after giving away a 4 or 5 point start.

That auld codger's card they kept showing was very misleading as he had the last 8 rounds split, he must've been blootered.

I've no problem with the result but it was really hard to score loads of those rounds, I'd have preferred a split.

It could go either way but I'm just for Kov, lots of difficult rounds to score.

Turned into a decent fight.

I could see a knockout for WArd.

I'm down to KOV up 1 or 2.

Ward is getting closer, rounds 9 to 12 could be good here.

You'd better not watch.