How do you score a fight?

It's pretty rare you get a fight in which one guy lands fewer shots but ****s the other guy up, whilst the other smacks him in the face repeatedly and is ineffective

Scoring fights isn't rocket science. Generally the guy that lands more shots wins

 

An obvious exception would be Chavez-Taylor. Taylor outlanded Chavez in every round, and yet looked like a mutant by the end of the fight.

 

Hence why I said in general, there are always exceptions

In my experience if you are getting ****ed up by shots from the other guy, you tend to be much more cautious and throw less punches anyway. In which case you wouldn't even be landing more often, and the fight is easy to score

 

Pure Brilliance:good :thumbsup

 

Quality post.

I score every fight I watch.

How I score a fight is:

1. The highest volume of punches landed,
2. The cleaness and power of shots landed,
3. The overall dominance/ring generalship.

I usually keep a mental note during the 3 minutes of who is dominating on the three factors, and by how much and by the end of the round give the highest scorer 10 points and the other guy 9 points. If a fighter is completely dominated or knocked down a further 1 point is deducted from his score to give him 8 points.

My scoring is generally very accurate and in line with most experts, apart from of course some of the judges who are often not even watching the fight it seems. Especially when a german fighter is fighting in germany.:deal

 

At the final bell --- Who was the "Boss."
This is what I look for.
How you finish is very important.
If no one dominated or took control by the end of the fight then it gets complicated.
Punch stats often confuse even more.
Many variables:
--- effective punching (this alone is up to interpretations)
--- effective aggression
--- punch volume
--- defence (blocking, slipping, making a punch miss nulifies the points scored by the punch)

 

Just common sense.

Activity means little to me if he isn't landing anything. I look for crisp, accurate punches. I look for ring generalship.

Actually, my gripe with scoring is that there should be more 10-10 rounds given if there is almost no action. Say for example, the 1st round of a fight where both fighters might throw 20 total punches with most of them air arm jabs. Giving that round to one fighter is a huge disadvantage to the guy who lost that round when nothing happened. Larry Merchant seems to give out draws a lot like the way i like to do.

 

Really glad I came across this post. It is really interesting for me to read - I am new to boxing so have been learning this kind of stuff as I go along. Always wondered how scoring worked exactly. Sometimes I have been able to tell who won a round, other times it seems to close.

 

The ten point must system is the most common..

The winner of each round gets 10 points

The loser gets 9

In the case of a knockdown the winner gets 10 and the loser 8

An even round is scored a 10 - 10 round..

In extreme cases there have been rounds scored 10-7..


The 10 point must system is the most universal at the minute..

God bless..