Should punches thrown while a fighters going backwards be scored differently?

[Weebler I]

A lot of times we see defensive fighters basically walk backwards around the ring throwing punches at the aggressor.

These punches have less power than a puncher who is coming forward yet they carry the same weight when it comes to scoring.

Surely this encourages defensive performances and leads to erroneous results?

Many times a fighter may have thrown more pitter patter, non-hurting punches on the backfoot and won the fight on volume of punches even though they carried no force.

Any thoughts on a change in the scoring system?

[Fox McCloud]

There should not be a uniform change docking fighters going backwards when they throw punches. Each punch should be evaluated though accordingly.

[LoftyDog]

You judge a fight on effective aggressiveness, defense, ring generalship, and clean hard punching. If a fighters is fighting well going backwards he certainly is showing his defense and ring generalship while taking away his opponent's effective aggressiveness.

The last one would just have to depend on the fight. However, most fighters like that tend to be accurate and allow their opponent to walk into their shots, making them more powerful.

So I would to say no.

[Feint]

In short, no.

If the front part of the glove hits a scoring area of the body, I consider it a scoring blow.

[Kball15]

Well when a fighter leans back and gets hit with a shot, that shot is usually harder because his opponent has to reach more to land it. So they already are scored differently

thats why fighters are told to never go straight back, because ur opponent has to reach with his punches and he lands it, it usually sends the fighter off balance and down.

[Texanballer]

I'd say no. A punch is a punch. when moving backwards i guess its the judge's decision whether its defensive fighting or just ineffectiv agressiveness

[Weebler I]

In short, no.

If the front part of the glove hits a scoring area of the body, I consider it a scoring blow.

Even if it has relatively little force? this doesn't seem sensible.

That effectively means a fighter can run the whole fight, throwing pitter patter shots whilst his opponent who throws the bigger more forceful punches loses on account of punch volume.

I see a problem in the scoring system.

[MikeBrew328]

A lot of times we see defensive fighters basically walk backwards around the ring throwing punches at the aggressor.

These punches have less power than a puncher who is coming forward yet they carry the same weight when it comes to scoring.

Surely this encourages defensive performances and leads to erroneous results?

Many times a fighter may have thrown more pitter patter, non-hurting punches on the backfoot and won the fight on volume of punches even though they carried no force.

Any thoughts on a change in the scoring system?

Are you talking about Amateur or Pro?

Professional boxing doesn't count punches in numbers. It's based on clean, effective punching, ring generalship, a lot of other criteria.

Sometimes though, there's such thing as double impact. The puncher coming forward gets hit by the guy going backward and the punch is like double the impact

[TopDawg]

If the punches are landing, then it doesn't matter.

[Weebler I]

Are you talking about Amateur or Pro?

Professional boxing doesn't count punches in numbers. It's based on clean, effective punching, ring generalship, a lot of other criteria.

But its fair to say judges scorecards often follow the volume of punches landed, particularly in the big fights.