The boxing commissions should evaluate judges' cards on a yearly basis to determine whether the scorecards are reasonably accurate. If a judge turns in a scorecard like Williams did in Lewis-Holyfield I that judge would not be used again. Other sports, such as football and basketball, carefully evaluate their referees and use only the best during the playoffs. Why can't the sport of boxing employ a similar system and use judges who consistently judge fights accurately. Everyone knows that there is inevitably some level of subjectivity in judging fights.
Experts differ on how much to reward effective aggressiveness and ring generalship.
However, I have attended fight cards with scores so bad that it made me want to shout louder than Bobby Czyz and Steve Albert did after Holyfield-Ruiz. Boxing represents the courageous combat of individual versus individual, the epitome of the human struggle, and, at times, the sheer triumph of the spirit. All Rights Reserved.