majority draw
{{Short description|Outcome in sports}}
A majority draw is an outcome in several full-contact combat sports, including boxing, mixed martial arts (MMA), and other sports involving striking. In a majority draw, two of the three judges agree that neither fighter won (i.e. tied scorecards), while the third judge indicates one fighter being the winner on his/her scorecard.{{cite web|url=http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/Majority_draw|title=Majority draw|publisher=BoxRec}} Thus, the majority of judges see the outcome as even and the result is announced as such, although one judge gave a victory on his/her card to one fighter.
This outcome is one of the rarest judged decisions in professional boxing and MMA, apart from a unanimous draw (where all three judges score the fight as a tie), or a split draw (where one judge scores one fighter the winner, a second judge scores the other fighter the winner, and the third judge scores the fight a draw).
Notable examples
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!Date !Fight ! colspan="3" |Scorecards !Source(s) |
| September 10, 1993
|Pernell Whitaker vs. Julio César Chávez |115–113 Whitaker |115–115 draw |115–115 draw |
| September 12, 2013
|Badou Jack vs. Marco Antonio Peribán |96–94 Peribán |95–95 draw |95–95 draw |
| November 12, 2016
|Tyron Woodley vs. Stephen Thompson |48–47 Woodley |47–47 draw |47–47 draw |
| January 14, 2017
|Badou Jack vs. James DeGale |114–112 DeGale |113–113 draw |113–113 draw |
| May 19, 2018
|Adonis Stevenson vs. Badou Jack |115–113 Jack |114–114 draw |114–114 draw |
| August 25, 2018
|58–57 KSI |57–57 draw |57–57 draw |{{cite web|date=2018-08-25|title=KSI vs Logan Paul: YouTube boxing fight ends in a draw|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45310986|website=BBC|accessdate=2018-08-25|df=dmy-all}} |
| December 12, 2020
|Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Brandon Moreno |48–46 Figueiredo |47–47 draw |47–47 draw |
| August 3, 2024
|Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Jarrell Miller |116–112 Miller |114–114 draw |114–114 draw |
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