Mauricio Sulaiman explains how boxing judges actually work: a 30-second warning bell ends each round, judges' scores are announced mid-fight so boxers know where they stand, and instant replay reviews knockdowns and cuts to decide if fights continue or go to scorecards.
Questions this video answers
A 30-second signal before the end of the round; the clap is 10 seconds (to ready the referee).
After the second and the fourth rounds.
After the fourth and the eighth rounds.
Knockdowns and cuts to determine whether an injury was from a headbutt or a blow (which affects whether the fight is stopped or goes to the scorecards).
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30 seconds before the end of the round, which today is 10. The signal, the clap, is 10 seconds, but its function is so that the referee is ready to intervene to avoid blows after the bell, this 30 second signal is for the boxer to close the round. And it has brought very good results because when you close the round, you impress the judges and there is more action. Right? We are announcing the scores publicly after the second and after the fourth. Of all the judges, the official judges, if it is not the bad name, they do not say. Instead of seeing. Instead of seeing what? The half who are not the official judges, the coroners think, oh, man, I'm losing, I have to throw him, I have to knock him out or I'm going to lose. Right, and that has been very useful. Of the fourth and eighth, you said, or the second and the. Well, in these fights that are six rounds, it is after the second and the fourth, right? Oh, okay. In world title fights, after the fourth and eighth, great results. Instant replay, which is the bar just dishes, at what point people throw a flag and at that moment the fight stops, either to watch the bar or not. When there's a knockdown, when there's a cut, to see if there was a headbutt without stopping the action in order not to interrupt. We already have the monitor here and the television sends us the replay. Once we see that the cut was indeed a blow, and the referee said it was a blow, nothing happens. But if the referee said it was a headbutt and it's proven that it was a blow, we stop it and notify everyone that it wasn't a headbutt, that it was a blow. Why? Because if you stop the fight for knockout blows, if you stop the fight for a headbutt, you go to the scorecards. It's very different. It is. Well, some things are reviewed. We also have the issue of what you were saying about suggesting new things. It would be fewer rounds, maybe two minute rounds. And tournaments, Tournaments are wonderful. Before you had the Colosseum here, where there was boxing every Saturday, no matter who was fighting. Now with the tournaments, I see that they fight more often. But before it seemed like a boxer would get in the ring twice a year for health reasons. Right? Because of the violence and the toughness, rather than for business. It's for business. For business or because the boxer who already makes a lot of money says no. Now I'm going to rest and I'm going to to build a pay per view. You need. No, no, no.
