Jabs were not scored in the early 20th century.

'Damage scoring blows' so would Hagler's or Liston's jab count?

 

Yeh, well anyone can use the jabas aweapon instead of a tool

 

My interpretation of that quote is basically how fans score fights today right?

Pitter patter doesn't count and can be negated by a solid counter shot.

 

mcgrain, how pro boxing actually gets scored is a bit of a mystry to me (obviously i know the rules but it dont fit with too many real life examples), are you saying that if a guy has been hurt and lost the round big, in the next round it would count against the score even if it was even fight again, because one is hurt (say other guy tired or low workrate or whatever)

 

I think of alexander v kotelnik. Devon threw hundreds of punches and the vast majority bar jabs were blocked. Andrei on the other hand was landing solid counter shots back at alexander.

 

which is the tough part about comparing scorecards. i totally see what lufcrazy is saying above but i scored the fight for alexander and felt he simply landed more. having said that, i can very much see why he would lose though based on criteria

one round i had trouble with was the 6th or 7th round of gatti/ward 3. ward is one of my all time favourites but he was getting beating up by gatti until he scored a flash knockdown. i have a lot of trouble scoring it a 10-8 round for ward or even 10-9 based on the previous 2 minutes and 50 seconds of the round

 

I always get the impression that jabs were kind of scored as ring generalship, if fighter A jabs fighter B 25 times in a round and lands 5 big punches, it trumps fighter B and then 10 big punches he landed.

 

I'm not so sure this is true. If so then Mike McTigue would have never won a single fight, let alone the light-heavyweight championship of the world.

 

They still say 'Vegas doesn't score the jab', I don't score it in the same way I score a power punch

 

I don't think that that is true at all. Jem Driscoll and jim Corbett were known for their 'straight lefts'...Maybe the confusion is in that statement. The 'jab" has become, over the years, a flicking thing thrown from afar and landed at the very end of the punch. Watch Tunney and some of those guys; they used 'straight left hands' that involved a slight turn of the shoulder, landing the punch with the arm partially extended and following through, and pushing off the rear foot (while not shifting the weight to the front foot).