The BoxingArts Judge Rating System is a way for boxing commissions and sanctioning bodies to assess a judge's ability to score fights correctly, and to ensure the general public that only the best and most highly qualified judges are selected to judge championship fights. It is based on a principle that already exists in boxing: that it only takes two judges to determine the outcome of a fight, that those two judges scored the fight correctly, and the third judge got it wrong. BoxingArts takes that same principle and applies it to rounds. If two judges agree on which fighter won a round, those two judges scored that round correctly, and the judge who gave it to the other fighter got it wrong. If a judge consistently scores rounds differently from the other two judges, he will have a lower rating than a judge whose scorecards are more often in agreement with at least one of the other two judges. A judge's score that is different from the other two judges in any round is called an "outlier" score, and the round is called an "outlier" round for that judge. Each outlier round results in a one point deduction for that judge. If a judge has no outlier rounds in a fight, he gets a 10.0 rating for that fight. If a judge has one outlier round in a fight, he gets a 9.0 rating for that fight. If a judge has two outlier rounds in a fight, he gets an 8.0 rating for that fight, and so on. A judge's overall rating is the average of the combined ratings for all of his fights*. If Judge A has a rating of 9.0 in one fight and 8.0 in another fight, his overall rating is 8.5. If he has no outlier rounds in his next fight, his overall rating is back up to 9.0. If he has three outlier rounds in his fourth fight, his overall rating is 8.5, and so on. The example below is the Official Nevada State Athletic Commission Scorecard for the Sugar Ray Leonard / Marvelous Marvin Hagler fight. The outlier rounds are bracketed. In that fight, Judge Dave Moretti has no outlier rounds. His score for each round is in agreement with at least one of the other two judges for that round. He gets a rating of 10.0 for this fight. Judge Lou Fillipo has four outlier rounds. He gets a rating of 6.0. Judge JoJo Guerra has three outlier rounds and gets a rating of 7.0. Note*: There are only a few fights in the BoxingArts Record as of now, so it is a very small sampling. That will improve over time, though, as more fights and more judges are added. Nonetheless, it is useful in assessing a judge's overall performance, as shown by the example below. For the current ratings of all the judges currently listed in the BoxingArts Database, click HERE ...

The example below is the Official Nevada State Athletic Commission Scorecard for the Sugar Ray Leonard / Marvelous Marvin Hagler fight, which took place on April 6th, 1987. The outlier rounds are bracketed.