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A Judge
View by
Derek Milham
The most basic and
important factor required for a judge is consistency
in his scoring by maintaining a totally
neutral and unbiased mental and emotional
attitude.
Judges should not allow their attention,
judgement, or actions to be
influenced, diverted or distracted from
the action occuring within the ring by
outside-the-ring activity or verbal
comments.
The historical Rules Unification meetings
taking place has seen the combined
WBA and WBC unification committee, reach
new ground and unify rules that will be
applied to our World title contests.
Incomplete Round
Scoring
The incomplete round scoring was
adopted,even though the round has not
finished it is necessary to score
whatever happened: knockdowns, fouls,
superiority of a boxer and so on.So every
action that takes place in the round must
be scored.
In this situation the boxer who was
superior is awarded with the points for
the incomplete round and deservedly so.
Establishing this rule also nullifies any
confusion and every action that takes
place over the duration of the contest
counts.
The Scoring System
and Scorecard
With the winner of a round receiving 10
points according to the ":10 point
must system", we have had many
instances of a 9-9 round because of a
point deduction for a foul, therefore in
conflict to the established 10 point must
system.
A new score card is to be designed based
on the philosophy that "Every boxer
has 120 points when he enters the ring.
As the fight goes on he will be
discounted points according to the
development of the actions and the
performance of the boxers, superiority,
knockdowns, intentional or not
intentional fouls. etc.
The Supervisor will be responsible for
the calculation and not the judges,
giving the judge the sole responsibility
of the task at hand and that is fully
concentrating on recording the action in
centre ring.
Overall this has been an extremely
important step to adopt a standard
scoring system that would be used the
World over. Decisions do constitute
the largest percentage of the verdicts in
boxing. This fact alone emphasizes the
need for sound basic guidelines on how to
evaluate, score and award points to the
contestants.
Above all the judge must have the ability
to perform with total concentration. This
should be the number one tool of all
judges, without it, that person is not a
judge of the action, and it's not just
concentration during the course of the
round , but from the moment the judge
sits in his or her seat.
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