Are punches that land of gloves scoring points?

Don't think do, but they can be effective damage makers

 

No, they are not:
"ARMS: Most often the arms are considered to be defensive mechanisms. Punches landed directly to the arms should not be considered scoring punches unless they are high up on the arms. To be considered scoring punches, they should be near the shoulders, or on the front of the shoulders"

 

Hell no...Those points should be awarded to the defender who's doing a good job...

 

No, punches that land on the gloves should not be considered 'scoring' punches.

Something that needs to remembered though, is that the judges are all sitting in different seats with different angles of view of what is taking place in the ring. One judge may have a clear view of a punch landing on the gloves. Another judge may not be able to be sure where it landed and may think it landed clean on the opponent.

 

The 10 point must system does not have "scoring punches"
The criteria in order is:
Clean effective punches
Effective aggregation
Ring Generalship
Defense

So, throwing punches is higher on the pecking order than blocking them. A hypothetical round where one guy is the aggressor and the other guy does nothing but shell up, the guy shelling up loses that round.

Now, I scored yesterday's fight for Bivol on the account that Bivol was landing more CLEAN punches.
Some people felt that Beterbiev being the aggressor was so much more effective than Bivol's clean punches, that they gave rounds to Beterbiev.

It's not an exact science, so people will sometimes disagree about how to score rounds.

 

if the punch landed on a glove and moved the guy half a meter, I would score it. It's not the same evading punch when it doesn't touch you, and getting hit hard on a glove - you can feel the power and it can hurt like a clean punch.

 

A 'clean effective punch' is not one that lands on the gloves.

 

If it lands on the gloves then that's a blocked punch.

 

Judges dont have replay and slow-mo and if you watched the fight the announcers were calling lots of shots for Beterbiev...only to find out between rounds Beter's punches did not land (cleanly).

 

Many times with power punchers, believe it or not the punches that look like they just land on the gloves actually do sneak through. If you're holding a super tight high guard and your opponent smashes through the middle with a 1-2, or around the gloves behind the ear, especially when they have a lot of power behind them those shots certainly do some damage and wear you down. If one guy is just shelling up and not firing back, and the other guy is ripping shots all over with no answer, I would absolutely score those rounds for the more active boxer, even if he's not landing the eye catching shots that everyone is looking for.

 

This happens to some extent in every fight. Like us and the commentators, judges are only human and they are also either advantaged or disadvantaged by the angle they are to the fighters when a particular punch is thrown.