to dot or not to dot.

To be fair the notion of dotting isnt really too impractical. Where there is a clear winner of round one. a judge is obliged to score it accordingly. However; where a round is close but a judge favours one fighter over another he might make a note of this in the margin of the score card and wait the outcome of the second round before committing a score. applying it retrospectively.

for instance....10.10 dot to jamal

round two the judge feels jamal won it. therefore; its appropriate to make a judgement albeit retrospectively upon round one. Not adjusting your score cards makes reviewing them later on very difficult.

Thai scoring favours the better conditioned fighter. One who comes stronger as the fight progresses. Im sure likening it to a race is confusing. whereas we've all seen action movies where the hero is all but beat when revitalised by the thought of his family being brutalised by the baddies leaps to his feet and wins.

Its worth noting that title fights ideally judges are obliged to score each round and hand their cards in after each round....Which makes dotting and retrospective application of score difficult