Brick City Boxing

By: Tom Kaczmarek

CONCENTRATION

Absolute concentration is a fundamental element of judging. Judging a fight is one of the most difficult and demanding forms of officiating in any of the professional sports. It is a demanding skill requiring total concentration for the full three minutes of every round.

A professional boxing judge most closely observe two fighters(and a total of 4 gloved fists), and he must simultaneously compute the total number of punches thrown, the quantity of hits and misses., the quality of punches, the effect on the fighters, and their movement and condition. There is an awful lot going on at the same time. While making these observations, during rapid-fire action in the ring, he must implement the 10 Point Must System: Not an easy task. In order to fully understand how to use the system, you must make a study of all the fundamental elements of judging a fight.

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By: Christopher Roche

Commentary

1) I had Jermain Taylor winning the fight by a count of seven rounds to five. All of the rounds were 10-9 rounds, as there were no knockdowns and the rounds were competitive. My scorecard read the following way: Taylor: 2,3,5,6,8,9 and 10; Pavlik: 1,4,7,11 and 12.

2) While I am already seeing other writers state that Taylor “faded down the stretch”, I completely disagree. Going into the championship rounds, Taylor was fresh, and I gave him the tenth on my card. However, in the eleventh, Pavlik backed Taylor into the ropes for the only time in the fight, and “The Ghost” landed a vicious body shot. Taylor was forced to hold, and that one shot turned the eleventh around and took enough out of Taylor to help Pavlik win the twelfth. In other words, Taylor did not just “fade” on his own; his momentum was stymied by a brilliant and rare body shot from Pavlik.

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Scores were: 117-111, 115-113, 116-112.

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