Watching Thompson get robbed against yair was heart-braking.
Yair is a POS. If his family dies in a house fire would anyone care? Maybe to celebrate. Disgusting person.
But that fight was hard to score, if you're going by the book. (As a jude you should be).
The last round was 10-8. Thompson clearly ended the fight the stronger man.
Back in PRIDE FC, if the fight came to an end and the judges couldn't decide a winner, a tie-breaker round was added. Typically it was 5 minutes. (I cannot think of an exception). So you had a 10 minute frame, a 5 minute frame, and an additional 5 minute frame, if needed.
Clearly, with 3 rounds, it looks like it should be easy to determine a winner. With an even number of rounds, theoretically, it's harder to decide a winner.
But fights aren't confined to rounds, per se. It's displayed more regularly than not.
A lot of times, you'll have a fighter win a 10-8 round, and then drop two other rounds. But judges don't want to declare a draw. Or they are supposed to put one fighter through.
Allowing for a 4th round allows for more honest scoring: judges often avoid 10-8 and 10-7 rounds because even they know that fights aren't simply an accumulation of rounds, but something more dynamic. But when you do come to the conclusion of 3 rounds with a tied score, a fourth round really lets the winner show through.
In the case of Thompson-Rodriguez it was clear yair was done. even if he had racked up 2 rounds to 1, he lost that 3rd round so clearly, it was indisputable that he had been beat. A draw would have been fair, but an additional round would have provided closure because the true winner would have been proven on the scorecards/with a stoppage.
Look at the Shevchenko fight w/ that dude from Brazil. Shevchenko got railroaded the first round, but dominated the next 10 minutes. It's her fault she couldn't finish, I admit, but an additional round would have resolved the matter.
The 4th round also allows a fighter who might've over done it early on the catch a second wind. So it's not simply a chance for a slower, less explosive fighter to rack up points... though, if the most explosive opponent is tired, an accumulation of damage might be what the less powerful fighter needs to secure a stoppage.
It's also true that with a 4th round you could still get a draw.
Plent of 5 round fights have entered the final frame even. The final round could really be even. And that's OK. It's ok to have a draw. It's a topic for a different thread, but judges should be OK awarding 10-10 rounds, and awarding draws. With the 4th round, I actually think that is easier for them to come to terms with. They get comfortable awarding a 4th round, and they can become comfortable determining that 4th round was inconclusive.
Yair is a POS. If his family dies in a house fire would anyone care? Maybe to celebrate. Disgusting person.
But that fight was hard to score, if you're going by the book. (As a jude you should be).
The last round was 10-8. Thompson clearly ended the fight the stronger man.
Back in PRIDE FC, if the fight came to an end and the judges couldn't decide a winner, a tie-breaker round was added. Typically it was 5 minutes. (I cannot think of an exception). So you had a 10 minute frame, a 5 minute frame, and an additional 5 minute frame, if needed.
Clearly, with 3 rounds, it looks like it should be easy to determine a winner. With an even number of rounds, theoretically, it's harder to decide a winner.
But fights aren't confined to rounds, per se. It's displayed more regularly than not.
A lot of times, you'll have a fighter win a 10-8 round, and then drop two other rounds. But judges don't want to declare a draw. Or they are supposed to put one fighter through.
Allowing for a 4th round allows for more honest scoring: judges often avoid 10-8 and 10-7 rounds because even they know that fights aren't simply an accumulation of rounds, but something more dynamic. But when you do come to the conclusion of 3 rounds with a tied score, a fourth round really lets the winner show through.
In the case of Thompson-Rodriguez it was clear yair was done. even if he had racked up 2 rounds to 1, he lost that 3rd round so clearly, it was indisputable that he had been beat. A draw would have been fair, but an additional round would have provided closure because the true winner would have been proven on the scorecards/with a stoppage.
Look at the Shevchenko fight w/ that dude from Brazil. Shevchenko got railroaded the first round, but dominated the next 10 minutes. It's her fault she couldn't finish, I admit, but an additional round would have resolved the matter.
The 4th round also allows a fighter who might've over done it early on the catch a second wind. So it's not simply a chance for a slower, less explosive fighter to rack up points... though, if the most explosive opponent is tired, an accumulation of damage might be what the less powerful fighter needs to secure a stoppage.
It's also true that with a 4th round you could still get a draw.
Plent of 5 round fights have entered the final frame even. The final round could really be even. And that's OK. It's ok to have a draw. It's a topic for a different thread, but judges should be OK awarding 10-10 rounds, and awarding draws. With the 4th round, I actually think that is easier for them to come to terms with. They get comfortable awarding a 4th round, and they can become comfortable determining that 4th round was inconclusive.