Ring Generalship
Who is the Ring General in the round, dictating the pace, fighting where they want to, whether that be in the centre of the ring or up on their opponents chest forcing them back towards the rop
Effective Aggression
The Aggressor, who is applying pressure, making the fight, throwing punches. This aggression needs to be effective, whether that be, connecting with their punches, forcing their opponent back or just stopping them from throwing.
Defense
Who is making their opponent miss or not even throw or using their footwork to stay out of range so they are not hit, slipping punches, taking them on the gloves or non scoring zone and countering.
Clean and Hard Punching
This is not the amateurs, you don't get one point for each scoring blow. This is clean hard punching. A clean punch is any punch that lands on the scoring zones (head and body) with the knuckle of the glove. But not all punches are equal, Harder punches count for more, 10 light jabs ain't worth a big left hook that stuns your opponent. Damage done to the opponent is also taking into account. A fighter can be out landed 3 to 1 but if all they take is pita pata shots whilst they land monster hard blows then they win this category.
Do you use this format when scoring a fight?
The 4 Criteria for Scoring a Fight
posted on 27/3/15
Agree with most of that, but jabbing can fall into the category of ring generalship or effective aggression and clean/hard punching needs to be judged on the context of the fight.
A fighter could throw 10 jabs or light shots to manipulate distance or move his opponent and get caught with one big shot, I'd still give them the round. Pitter patter punches can be good defence if a fighter is getting backed up he can flurry and reposition.
posted on 27/3/15
The bradley provodnikov fight must've been hard to judge for you as bradley just hit him with light shots most rounds before taking hooks
posted on 27/3/15
Diamond
Pretty much my point as Bradley clearly won that fight
posted on 27/3/15
if that was the case Hagler would've won unanimously against Sugar Ray!
yeah, i said it!
posted on 27/3/15
yep, that's the criteria anyone with a brain should use
posted on 27/3/15
Yeah bradley clearly won his rounds just less impressive as provodnikov won his, but he won more rounds!
Would also mean malignaggi would never have won a fight
posted on 27/3/15
http://boxing.isport.com/boxing-guides/how-the-pro-boxing-scoring-system-works
Pretty much yeah D4, although with everyone else on the punching side, you can't just dismiss pitter patter punches as they're used to maneouvre someone into a position or to find range sometimes.
posted on 27/3/15
For anyone that's interested, looks like the ABAE takes volunteers for this.
http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/officials-and-volunteers/become-an-official/
posted on 27/3/15
You also can't judge how hard someone hits if say floyd lands 4 hooks on manny but manny lands one but floyd stumbles does manny win the round as he punches harder??
posted on 28/3/15
My criteria for judging is just to see who is doing the better work..
Simples..