Welcome to FIGHTJUDGE!

About FIGHTJUDGE

Just when you think you’ve seen it all in the world of boxing, think again. For the first time ever, a website is offering you the chance to score a fight—while it is happening! Corey Shelton, a web professional with over a decade of experience developing real-time web based scoring applications and a certified amateur boxing official in the state of Georgia, has created a website where you, the real fans, can score each round at its completion, and compare your score with the score of fight fans all around the world.

This is your chance to experience something brand-new and innovative for yourself. Have you ever been watching a fight and wondered how your fellow boxing fans were scoring it? No longer will you have to wait to the end of the fight and search Internet chat rooms and forums to see what those fans had to say. Here at Fightjudge.com it’s all right there for you. This is also a great way to see how many boxing fans agree or disagree with the actual judges who get paid to score the fight. Using the statistics from Fightjudge.com will help you put an end to any argument about how people score the fight, because you will have all the stats right there for you.

Fightjudge.com will be here for you to score the fights, from Friday Night Fights on ESPN to mega PPV’s on Saturday nights.

Shelton and his team have combined the love of boxing with the expertise in web scoring to “provide true boxing fans the ability to voice their opinions during compelling matches.” In other words, the future is now. You can join today, for free, and become part of one of the freshest ideas to come to the sport of boxing in a long time.

How It Works

For each fight we cover, you will be given your own scorecard to judge each round. You will be able to launch the scorecard from the homepage, underneath the heading "TONIGHT'S FIGHTS" within 3 hours of the fight. When you open the scorecard, you will notice that the round fields are blank. As a round comes to a finish, you will be given an opportunity to score the round by clicking on the boxes underneath the round numbers and selecting an appropriate score.

In an effort to provide an near authentic judging experience for you, we added a little catch to the judging. You will be given 60 secs to judge after each round has completed. Why? Because this is the same amount of time the ringside judges have to mark their scorecards! If you fail to judge the round within 60 secs, your scorecard is marked with an X in both round fields and your official scorecard will be incompleted. SO WATCH THE TIMER!

How to Judge a Fight

This is where we defer to the Association of Boxing Commissions. They have been so kind as to establish criteria by which you should evaluate the activity of each round in order to determine the appropriate score:

The scoring shall be done on a TEN POINT must system. Judges are to score each round using the following scoring criteria:

1. Clean punching (power versus quantity).
2. Effective aggressiveness.
3. Ring generalship.
4. Defense.

Judges should avoid scoring a round even. (Complete concentration and application of the scoring criteria will allow Judges to pick the winner of each round.)

The basic scoring concepts are:

- Round ends, no clear winner 10-10 (Rare)
- Close round/Winning of the round by effective boxing – 10-9
- One knockdown and a winning of the round – 10-8
- No knockdowns, but a clear dominating winning of the round – 10-8
- Two knockdowns – 10-7 - One knockdown and one point deduction to the same boxer – 10-8 (minus 1) = 10-7
- More than two knockdowns – 10-6
- Two knockdowns and one point deduction – 10-7 (minus 1) = 10-6

Lastly, A Few Words of Advice And One Request

1. When judging a fight, mute your television. We all enjoy the action packed commentary of a good fight. However, the intensity or skew of commentators can be an influence on how you judge a round.

2. Have fun using FIGHTJUDGE.COM!

3. Give us feedback. Our mission is to make this site the most compelling online experience you can have while watching a fight. Please let us know what you think we can do to make it a little bit better the next time you FIGHTJUDGE.