There is without a doubt a bias towards reigning champions for finishing a fight moving forward. This is one of the biggest blind bias issues I see in the sport.
A champion can easily lose the first three rounds and as long as he has octagon control in the last two rounds and does a good enough job to keep those rounds competitive he will always win.
Jones won that fight on the fact that he was more fresh at the end of the fight. If you score the fight objectively, Reyes clearly took rounds 1-3
They score each round once the round ends so that's just not true. The judges simply don't know what they're looking at. The judge who scored it 49-46 jones is the same judge that gave Giles the first round and Krause the third
The whole system for choosing judges is based on cronyism and not on qualifications. Many of these judges have little knowledge of either boxing or MMA.
ScreenName22 -oranos -There is without a doubt a bias towards reigning champions for finishing a fight moving forward. This is one of the biggest blind bias issues I see in the sport.
A champion can easily lose the first three rounds and as long as he has octagon control in the last two rounds and does a good enough job to keep those rounds competitive he will always win.
Jones won that fight on the fact that he was more fresh at the end of the fight. If you score the fight objectively, Reyes clearly took rounds 1-3
There is so much bullshit here i don't know where to start.
Jones pushed in the 5th because he KNEW he was losing.
Reyes coasted in the 5th because he KNEW the only way to lose was by getting KO’d.
As stated, rounds are scored round by round. It’s not how you feel at the end of the fight.
Just stop.
Jones pushed in the 5th because he knew it was the last and most important round. Not most important by the rules but in the sense that - the last thing you see when a fight ends as a viewer leaves the most impact.
Reyes did NOT coast because he knew the only way to lose is to get Koed - he was gassed as fuck never having to go to the championship rounds before. He literally limped out of the cage pretty badly and wouldn’t of been able to continue an extra round or 2 even if he wanted.
I still think Reyes won just wanted to argue those 2 points mate.
late rounds are worth 10 points
Just like early rounds are worth 10 points
The problem here is we have obvious evidence they made a scorecard to fit the narrative AFTER THE FIGHt WAS OVER
Hence the half handwritten and half printed scorecard
easier to remember what just happened than what happened 4 minutes ago.
part of the flaw in the system
if they scored each minute on a 10-9 scale, it would be more accurate
but youd need alternating judges watching screens that black out between odd minutes
Whats the fix? Having fighters be judges? Dont these commissions get embarrassed by this shit?
I WISH we moved to a system where the fight was assessed as a whole and there was more weight placed on who was taking over the fight in the last two rounds.
I didn’t see Jones/Reyes so I can’t debate this particular fight, but IMO if you’re taking over the fight in the last few rounds then that should be given more weight.
Part of judging a fight should answer “if this fight kept on going, who would finish who?”