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Originally Posted by kitaristi0
How do the referees score this kind of thing? Would it be in Floyd's favour because he is successfully neutralising all of DLH's efforts or would it be in DLH's favour because he is at least throwing punches and trying to be active even if he isn't doing any damage(say for arguments sake that PBF doesn't throw any punches all round or throws very few)?
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Overview of professional scoring:
The scoring is based on a 10 pt Must system, which one boxer must receive 10 pts per round, and the other 9 or less.
Each knock down is a 1 pt deduction.
After that it is broken down into criteria which help the judges decide who is effectively winning, as different fighters have different styles, so it allows, or tries to in considering that.
The 4 areas/criteria for dominating are,
Clean Punching:
A clean punch is one that lands on the scoring area, in face or side of head, front and side of torso with the knuckle portion of the glove. This is often given more weight then other scoring criteria, as it is the effective goal, to hit the other person efficiently. More often.
Effective Aggression:
This is when a fighter demonstrates the ability to create opportunities moving forward and as a result is landing more clean punches. The more aggressive the fighter the more likely this is measured, if even say they were actually really close in scoring. So aggression has it's merits.
Ring Generalship:
This is when a person demonstrates the ability to control the pace of a fight based on whatever their style may be. An aggressive fighter luring his opponent into slugout matches in order to score pts. A defensive opponent maybe trapping a brawler with set ups, counters, controlling distance, various things.
Attention really needs to be paid to the differing styles of fighters when considering ring generalship.
Defence:
Defence is an important aspect of boxing, and has it's own scoring criteria although it is often sadly overlooked. It takes great skill defensively to be effective for pure boxers, over say brawlers, and is far more impressive when considering a total skill set.
Blocking, slipping, parrying, bobbing,weaving, the footwork involved are all things boxers work hard to master, and a great thing to watch for a trained eye as part of an effective defence.
So for each judge when deciding who has won the round and to be awarded the 10 pts, these are the 4 criteria used.
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