How do you guys score fights?

[StussyyyBrownnn]

Canelo as a counter puncher takes a lot of flack for the scores against him. But apart from the GGG fights i think hes been screwed in some of the scorecards. Analysts talk about the jab and the pressure. But what good is the jab and pressure when that guy actually aint the one dictating the fight. Sometimes landing more jabs, with most soft and just touch jabs, can't outweigh power punches landed, an example of this is the Kovalev-Canelo fight prior to the knockout. A point of reference will be Joshua-Ruiz 2, where Joshua easily dominated the fight behind the jab, he was dictating the tempo, he wasnt just jabbing for "points". Another notable recent fight was Loma-Lopez fight, half of the fight was won with the jab by Lopez, but the other half was dominated by loma without a dominant use of the jab. How do you guys generally score fights? What do you guys look at?

[PBR Streetgang]

Good question. I'm surprised you didn't get any responses yet.

My first criteria is clean effective punching. I look to see who landed the better punches in a round. Poweshots are great but there's a quantity in quantity too...For me it's the primary criteria. As Max Kellerman used to say, "who would you have rather been that round?....

The next is a combination of effective aggression/ring generalship. Who implemented their plan more effectively? Was the fighter trying to pressure effective or did the guy moving and keeping distance set the tempo? If both landed equal clean punches, I look to see who effectively set the pace.

Lastly it's defense. If the other criteria are a wash then who displayed the better ability to avoid or parry blows. It's the final tie breaker.

[sargo]

No bull**** criteria. It is the hurt game. Who hurt the other guy more wins the round. If not clear, don't force the 10-9. 10-10 would be the right score. If one runs excessively like Rigo, he loses the round, assuming he did not hurt the opponent clearly more. Same with excessive holding.

[PBR Streetgang]

Regarding your examples, from my recollection, I had Kovalev ahead at the time of the stoppage. He wasn't landing heavy shots but I thought clean clean punching was about equal and Kovalev displayed ring generalship while Canelo's aggression was relatively ineffective (in terms of scoring rounds) up to that point.

In Loma/Lopez, it was a fairly easy fight to score. For the first half, the only clean punches were thrown by Lopez and his ring generalship was superior. For the majority of the second half, Loma landed the cleaner punches and was being more effective with his aggression than Lopez.