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Bad Left Hook Scoring Signup for Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto

Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman battle this Saturday night at Yankee Stadium. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

This recent FanPost brought up a great idea to get everyone a bit more involved in our fight coverage, and we're going to break it out this week for the first time.

We're going to have five Bad Left Hook judges scoring the fight Saturday night between Yuri Foreman and Miguel Cotto. Most of the time we do this, two of the seats will be taken by myself and Brickhaus, but since Brick is on vacation, to start this idea we're going to have four open spots available.

If you want to be considered, let me know in the comments. Here's what's expected:

  1. Score the fight round by round, and keep track of your scoring. Probably wouldn't hurt to write it down on a piece of paper or whatever even if you score in the live thread, because then you won't have to go back digging through everything to find your scores per round.
  2. After the fight, send me your round by round scores in an email (my email address is listed in my profile here, and at the bottom of the main page).
  3. Also give some type of wrap-up thoughts on the fight in that email. Doesn't have to be more than a paragraph or so if you don't have much to say or don't have the time or whatever, but something. If you want to give it a good, long analysis, feel free. I'm not exactly worried about how much space we take up. It's a blog meant for in-depth discussion, so if you want to write a damn essay, go right ahead.
  4. If you're not terribly confident in writing ability, don't worry about that at all. I'm a decent enough editor on the blog level that it won't be a problem. I won't change what you're saying, though.

How we'll pick:

  1. If you sign up by Thursday at 8pm EDT, I'll put your name in a hat and draw randomly. It's that simple. I'll post the results of that by 9pm EDT on Thursday so you'll know early enough. If you have to drop out, let me know and it'll be no big deal. I realize things come up.
  2. If you consistently sign up and don't get picked, I'll eventually put you in a "seat" just because. It's bound to happen that people get picked often and other people keep getting shut out. I'd like to spread this out as much as possible, but random picking is the best way to do it here at the start.

And I know it sounds corny, but most importantly, make sure you have fun if you want to sign up. That's really the point for this, just to get everyone more involved, which I always want to do, and to up the community level even more. If your card completely differs from mine or any other card (official or fellow BLH judges), that's fine. You might get called nuts, you might think everyone else is nuts. It's inevitable that we have cards that are "controversial," and mine will be there too. I'm no better at scoring fights than anyone else here, which is another reason I like this idea so much.

So sign up, and tomorrow between 8-9pm I'll get the drawing results up.

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sign up me up for the hat draw

sounds like the first good idea in this bad idea please retire cotto fight

"Iron man, iron man, does what an iron man can"

by pieful35 on Jun 2, 2010 4:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Oooh, Oooh, Pick me

This is a sweet idea BTW. Its also the last fight ill see on HBO before my promotion ends, so the amount of fun taken away from the event would exponentially increase.

by cyke on Jun 2, 2010 4:28 PM EDT reply actions  

ha

Don't pick a fight with an old man, If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

by Kid Blast on Jun 3, 2010 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’m smelling a 120-108 card here….

by Waldo Rastel on Jun 2, 2010 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’m anticipating a couple of knockdowns (if it somehow manages to go the distance), so it’ll be wider than that :).

by tichbou on Jun 2, 2010 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

Is this going to be tape delayed on the West Coast?

I can give you my score and thoughts a little later then everyone else but it also means that I will not be available for the live thread. If thats alright I would love to do the scoring. Can also give scoring for the Ward fight on the 19th, but commentary may have to wait a little bit.

by Waldo Rastel on Jun 2, 2010 5:36 PM EDT reply actions  

Same thing here, although I think I get HBO East.

by tichbou on Jun 2, 2010 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm not interested

But I just want to say that I think this is a very cool idea. I appreciate the extra work and the risk that you are taking in doing this, and I think it’s cool that you are letting people get out there on the front page. It’s what blogging is all about :)

by KyleAskine on Jun 2, 2010 8:39 PM EDT reply actions  

I’ll give it a shot. My scorecard would be provided by the end of the night if picked

If a man ain't found something worth dying for. He ain't fit to live.

by Violent Demise on Jun 2, 2010 8:57 PM EDT reply actions  

put my name in the hat

Sounds like fun

"After this, I'm gonna kick Bob Arum's ass."
-George Lopez

by Eddie Gonzalez on Jun 2, 2010 9:44 PM EDT via mobile reply actions  

Can't this week.

Will be in for the Ward-Green fight next week though.

by thp0344 on Jun 2, 2010 11:43 PM EDT reply actions  

Man, this is such a good idea, the guy who came up with it should get picked to be a judge this week without being a part of the drawing!

by The Boxer Rebellion on Jun 3, 2010 4:29 AM EDT reply actions  

of course, i’ll take my chances in the lottery if need be :)

by The Boxer Rebellion on Jun 3, 2010 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

Name in hat, please.

I know Foreman is bigger and the better boxer, but I still think Cotto is just gonna walk through his punches and eventually break him down. Should be fun.

by Verklemptomaniac on Jun 3, 2010 10:38 AM EDT reply actions  

Name in the hat please

thank you

"Yes Gina, I am a Wise Cracker"

by lcollins1 on Jun 3, 2010 11:19 AM EDT reply actions  

Put me down for the draw

This is also my commentary debut on Bad Left Hook, but I’ve been a reader for some time. Love the site. Amazing stuff. Does sucking up help my chances?

by Jay Smith on Jun 3, 2010 4:58 PM EDT reply actions  

Probably not, but feel free.

Bad Left Hook
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by Scott Christ on Jun 3, 2010 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

i’m down i guess

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by battle axe of doom on Jun 3, 2010 7:04 PM EDT reply actions  

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