To win. However, you win by outpointing,KO, or Referee stoppage if you're clearly outclassing him, TKO, if he's too far behind in points, things of the sort.
Clean blows are scored. The sort of punch it is doesn't matter. If you get a knockdown you get one point because you landed a punch that knocked them down.
A punch is considered a scoring punch only when the boxers connect with the white portion of the gloves. Each punch that lands on the head or torso is awarded a point. A referee monitors the fight to ensure that competitors use only legal blows (a belt worn over the torso represents the lower limit of punches - any boxer repeatedly landing "low blows" is disqualified). Referees also ensure that the boxers don't use holding tactics to prevent the opponent from swinging (if this occurs, the referee separates the opponents and orders them to continue boxing. Repeated holding can result in a boxer being penalized, or ultimately, disqualified). Referees will stop the bout if a boxer is seriously injured, if one boxer is significantly dominating the other or if the score is severely imbalanced.[1] Bouts which end this way may be noted as "RSC" (referee stopped contest) with notations for an outclassed opponent (RSCO), outscored opponent (RSCOS), injury (RCSI) or head injury (RSCH). From wiki.
It's a messed up scoring system, and that's why amateur boxing is removed from proffesional boxing primarly IMO. The judges have to simultanously press a button when they see a punch land for either fighter within a 1 second window. F***** up
scoring blows are made with the white part of the gloves, on the head or body. Blows that are partially blocked are not scored. Scoring is cumulative. It's not round by round. So you don't have to win every round to win the fight. You just have to outscore your opponent in total. Scoring is so subjective in amateur boxing, it upsets me as a coach. Some judges only score perfectly clean, headsnapping punches, and don't score body shots. Their scores tend to be very low, on the order of 5-2. I.e. they are claiming that one of the fighters only handed 2 scoring blows in the whole fight, which is bull****. Other judges score pretty much everything that lands, blocked or not. Their scores tend to be very high, on the order of 41-33 or so. Even if a punch is blocked, if it snaps their head back, they count it. Basically, it is very hard to predict the winner in a competitive amateur bout, because every judge scores it differently. I tell my boxers that in general, the fighter who throws more punches wins. It is even very difficult to get mad over "robberies" any more, because they seemingly happen so often in amateur boxing. /rant
