Zach Arnold reveals that four biggest reasons preventing open/real-time scoring from being implemented for the world’s biggest fights.
What’s the matter with Kansas? That’s the question many athletic commissions are asking with the state’s embrace of real time scoring in both boxing and Mixed Martial Arts.
It’s not Kansas that has things backwards — it’s everyone else.
The idea of encouraging open-scoring in combat sports is taboo among a lot of the old-timers. It’s why it took an outsider like Adam Roorbach, the Executive Director of the Kansas Athletic Commission, to push the optional concept of open scoring for fights.