SteveMMon Aug 25, 2025, 6:31 AM UTC<\/p>\n
ex boxers are some of the worst in picking who will win a fight – they are too invested in styles, attitudes – if they carry that into a fight that they’re judging then they’d mess up.
\nRecently Andy Lee, excellent trainer though he is, was commentating and doing the score card for Ball vs Goddman – he had Goodman far ahead – I<\/p>\n
SteveMMon Aug 25, 2025, 6:27 AM UTC<\/p>\n
clean punching isn’t the be all and end all – they have to be effective too or it’s not effective aggression. Bivol’s punches aren’t pitter-patter punches but they had very little effect on Beterbiev much less deter him – they didn’t deter him. Artur threw and landed less but visibly effected Bivol especially the 2nd half of<\/p>\n
Boxing 112Sun Aug 24, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC<\/p>\n
No. How many times have you disagreed with a ex boxers opinion of how a fight goes? Just cause they boxed doesn’t make they’re an expert in judging<\/p>\n
Grandma LoverSun Aug 24, 2025, 10:28 AM UTC<\/p>\n
No! They just need to be held accountable for the blatantly terrible scores. Refs too for obvious side money they take.<\/p>\n
SouthpawRightSun Aug 24, 2025, 8:26 AM UTC<\/p>\n
Yes because clean punching is king per the rules<\/p>\n
pros have first hand experience in what kind of punches landed cleanly<\/p>\n
no he does not win the round because he came forward and threw punches that are defended <\/p>\n
not if his opponent out clean punched him<\/p>\n
Most pros I\u2019ve heard had Bivol beating Artur twice because he out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SteveMMon Aug 25, 2025, 6:31 AM UTC ex boxers are some of the worst in picking who will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,69780,27865,85],"class_list":["post-94411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-judges","tag-officials","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}