Houston Judges: Never Go to Court

First things first. I was not that thrown off by the draw with Chris John and Rocky Juarez.

I started watching the fight late, about the third round, and was constantly distracted by two babies and two women. So I could not properly score the fight.

I just decided to watch the way of commoners.

I know Chris was staying busier in the middle of the fight, and it was fun to watch especially because CJ seemed to be constantly smiling, or that is just his bone structure.

But I did not see him dominating. I saw him scoring a little here and a little there, but so was Rocky. Maybe CJ scored a little here and there a little more than Juarez, but I do not think it was a domination.

The only domination I saw was at the end of the fight when CJ appeared to have almost no legs, arms, or neck attached to his body anymore. Juarez was landing at will, not to mention hard.

Not having seen the first couple of rounds, I expected Juarez to get the fight. I just thought he was the clear winner later on, where as I did not see a clear winner through most of the middle of the fight.

John did excellent, but I was not sure he had done enough.

I was surprised today then to see the Internet really ranting about what a robbery it was that CJ did not win. I can accept that more people thought he won. But it seemed like almost everyone had him winning, and winning big.

I started to doubt my own senses. Blaming my poor judgement on missing a few rounds and not focusing hard enough on scoring it, before a few posters finally stood up for Juarez and the decision. That made me feel a little less insecure. A lot of people were especially debating the first two rounds, which were the ones I missed.

Anyways, I thought they both boxed well, and I did not have my own personal "scorecard", but I thought CJ was lucky to get out of there with a draw.

Other than that, the only thing that surprised me about the draw was that all three judges scored it the same. Very odd.

Onto Marquez and Diaz. Wow.

What a fight.

It is fights like this that made me a boxing fan so relatively late in life. My scoring was a bit different than the official scorecards though. I had Diaz winning the first two, and Marquez winning every other round to the end.

I wanted to give Diaz a round badly, but he seemed slow to get off with Marquez's high activity rate after the first couple rounds that is. Whenever he did get off, Marquez always had an answer for him.

He still had some nice flurries here and there the rest of the way. But in between them, Marquez was hitting him constantly. You did not have to wait more than a few seconds for Marquez to land another shot. Diaz was making you wait a minute or more.

So, yeah, I was a bit surprised that the scoring to that point was 77-75 Marquez, 77-75 Diaz and 76-76.

Scoring fights in boxing or MMA is really difficult to do since there is no "scoring points" system like in basketball. Even if there were, especially watching from TV, they are too damn fast to see clearly if a punch landed or got blocked.

Was it three punches or five? I have a lot of trouble with that.

The other really big problem with scoring is quality verses quantity. Do you give the round to Diaz for having three mighty powerful blows, or to Marquez for hitting him so much more? How much value do we give Diaz's bombs vs Marquez's counters?

Anyways, just a little rant. When it comes down to it, judges and referees, especially NBA referees, are just a little reminder to us that the human race is far from perfect. We are not nearly as smart as we think.

F___, I hate refs.

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