Should harder punches count for more?

This is not Roman gladiators fighting to the death.. These are men competing in a sport.. They are professional.. Turning the sport into the "who can land the haymaker" will not make the sport better...

 

You're correct it is a sport. The sport of hand to hand combat.

Not hand to hand dancing. Its combat with your fists.

 

If you get punched hard, you lose the round in your opinion right? That means if a guy gets hit, they will try to get even and turn sloppy.. If you rock a guy but got hit 20 times right before that, you don't win the whole round.. That's throwing away most of what a fight is...

 

No the fight ends when somebody cannot contiune. That is the purest end to a fight.

In the event that both men finish the time allotment you go to the cards.

 

What's the point of this whole thing? You think the guys aren't hitting each other hard enough? You just watched a Rocky movie? How is this improving the sport?

 

So you didn't give Mosley that round?

 

What's the point of pro boxing?

Well its to use skill and athleticism to punch the other guy hard.

What else could possibly be the point?

 

Actually the round could have gone either way.. Nothing was really going on before that and Floyd dominated the test of the round and fight.. Whoever anyone picked to win it was right...

 

Since power between fighters isn't always on the same level it should be scored like this:

If Fighter-A is less powerful than Fighter-B, but Fighter-A is punching "hard" (for his level of power) then he should get credit for it. You can usually tell when someone isn't putting a lot of their weight intentionally behind a punch and is point fighting.

At least that's the way I look at a fight. I don't think a fighter should be penalized just because they don't naturally have as much power as their opponent.

 

Power is an attribute. Should we give fighters with poor stamina, skill or speed a handicap because it's not fair?

 

I don't think it's about handicapping them. But if a fighter is trying to hit hard but lacks power, he shouldn't be penalized for it.

On the flip side if it looks like the "guy-with-no-pop" is just trying to flick out pitty-pat punches and tags his opponent ten times, and the "opponent-with-power" gets in two good shots that shakes "the-guy with-no-pop", then I'd give the round to the "opponent-with-power".

Basically what I'm getting at is intention of the punch. Judging is subjective like that.

 

What's stopping a guy from running the rest of the round after he rocks you? Since punching hard is the only goal to boxing?

 

Boxing is slacking.. They need pressure sensors in the gloves to see who punched harder.. They shouldn't rely on sound and sight.. This is 2015.. Step yo game up boxing...

 

Clean effective punches only. otherwise you're penalizing boxers who aren't as heavy handed.

 

I hate this amateur crud where a tap counts as a punch, it's not.