Eubank Jr vs Smith: Take part in the Viewers’ Verdict experience on the Sky Sports App

Scoring a fight always creates plenty of debate, but you can deliver your own judge’s decision during Saturday’s Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Smith Sky Sports Box Office bill.

With the new Viewers’ Verdict feature, Sky Sports wants to know how you are scoring the action during Saturday night’s show, live from Manchester on Sky Sports Box Office.

Users of the Sky Sports App will be able to score the Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Smith, Richard Riakporhe vs Krzysztof Glowacki, Ekow Essuman vs Chris Kongo and Joseph Parker vs Jack Massey fights with our new Viewers’ Verdict experience.

Download the app now to play along on Saturday night.

The audience’s overall score will be shared on the live television broadcast.

How to score a fight

Professional boxing is scored round by round on a ’10-points must’ scoring system.

The winner of each round is awarded 10 points and the loser typically receives nine.

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player

Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Smith face off at the weigh-in ahead of their huge fight in Manchester.

If a boxer loses the round and is also knocked down, they will receive a score of eight, or, if knocked down twice, seven.

If both boxers are knocked down, these essentially cancel once another out and the winner of the round will take it on a 10-9 margin.

On rare occasions it can happen that if a fighter totally dominates a round, without knocking down the opponent, they can win the round 10-8.

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player

Joseph Parker says he’s had a great camp and will be fast and mobile against Jack Massey.

It can happen that despite a knockdown a boxer is adjudged to have soundly won the rest of the round, a judge can then score it 10-9 in their favour.

A round can be scored level at 10-10 if the two fighters really can’t be separated, but it is good practice to try to identify the winner.

The referee can take a point away from a boxer for infractions. This can be immediately for a deliberate foul (e.g. a head butt, hitting below the belt, biting etc.) or repeatedly committing an accidental foul too often (like holding too much for instance).

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player

Listen to exactly what Chris Kongo and Ekow Essuman had to say to each other at a feisty head to head. How to win a round

The judges are looking for clean scoring punches and volume of landed punches to decide which boxer has the edge.

“By a scoring punch, I’m talking about a punch that lands with the knuckle part of the glove on the target area, which is basically the front and the side of the head and the front and side of the torso down to a line across the top of the hip bones,” seasoned British Boxing of Control referee and judge Phil Edwards explained.

“Also which boxer is taking the initiative, if you like being effectively aggressive. But also which boxer is defending well and is imposing his or her will on the opponent, making the opponent fight his or her fight.”

Download the Sky Sports App here

Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Smith is on Saturday January 21, live on Sky Sports Box Office. Book it now if you are a Sky TV subscriber or a Non-Sky TV subscriber.