{"id":32967,"date":"2020-06-09T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/decisiones-divididas\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:38:52","slug":"split-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/split-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Split Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Split Decisions<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

By Barry Lindenman<\/p>\n

Some split decisions are inevitable because 100% agreement 100% of the time is impossible. It\u2019s hard enough to get three people to agree on what toppings to put on a pizza let alone agree to the winner of a boxing match every time.\u00a0 I will add this too.\u00a0 Just because there is disagreement, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that someone is right or someone is wrong.<\/p>\n

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There is even a term used to describe when this happens. It is called \u201cThe Rashomon Effect,\u201d based on the 1950 Academy Award winning film directed by Akira Kurosawa in which a crime involving four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.\u00a0 The term refers to the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event can produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it. That being said, not all split decisions are created equal.\u00a0 There are \u201cgood\u201d split decisions, \u201cbad\u201d split decisions and \u201cugly\u201d split decisions.<\/p>\n

In the first split decision example below, judge # 3 would appear to be the \u201clone wolf\u201d as they were the only judge who scored the bout for fighter B. On the surface, it would appear that judge # 3\u2019s score would be the most criticized. However, I would argue that although they agreed with judge #1 in awarding the fight to fighter A, judge #2\u2019s scorecard is the one that should be examined more closely.\u00a0 Although they chose different winners of the fight, the scorecard of judge #1 is actually closer to the scorecard of judge #3 than it is to judge #2 who actually agreed with judge #1 in terms of who won the fight. Despite choosing different winners of the fight, the scores of judge #1 and judge #3 agreed that the fight was very close. The scorecard of judge #2 would seem to indicate that they saw a fight that wasn\u2019t that close.<\/p>\n

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In the second split decision example below, all 3 judges saw the fight as a one-sided affair. Judge #1 and judge # 3 both saw fighter A as being the clear winner of the fight as their scores disagreed by only 1 point. Judge #2 also saw the fight as a one-sided fight. However, by virtue of their score, judge #2 obviously saw a totally different fight than did judge #1 or judge #3 as they overwhelmingly scored the fight for fighter B. Once again, because of being the \u201clone wolf\u201d judge in the scenario below, the scorecard of judge #2 would be heavily criticized.\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/New-Image-3.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Finally, we come to what I would call a \u201clegit split.\u201d Some rounds are just that close that can be scored for either fighter.\u00a0 It is clear from the tightness of the numbers below that all 3 judges saw the same fight (i.e. a VERY close fight). Boxing judges are human beings and human beings are entitled to have differences of opinion. A split decision like the one portrayed below should be expected and accepted from time to time. There is a way to resolve very close split decisions like the one shown below. Can you say \u201crematch?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Split Decisions\u00a0 By Barry Lindenman Some split decisions are inevitable because 100% agreement 100% of the time is impossible. It\u2019s hard enough to get three people [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n

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