What's the difference between a good am and a good pro fighter?

[SkyKng]

Can someone explain to me why some are better at amateur fighting and some are better than pro. People get knocked out in both, people have good skills in both. The only difference I can think of is stamina issues .

[coghaugen]

Right now with the computer scoring it's about mastering the scoring system in the amateurs, fencing and pecking the headguard over 2-min rounds.

In the pro's, you get hit much harder, with much smaller gloves, and you have much longer to execute gameplans and set-up knockouts, and more to influence scoring (human judges) eg flurring in the last 30-60secs of a 3-min round to catch the judges eyes etc.

Almost like different sports these days, since the computer system came in the amateurs and the rounds shortened

[intoccabile]

Can someone explain to me why some are better at amateur fighting and some are better than pro. People get knocked out in both, people have good skills in both. The only difference I can think of is stamina issues .

Body work, for starters. It hardly scores points in the ams so they ignore it in the pros. The ams is also based on an entirely different scoring system.. so a lot of pro styles would translate horribly in the ams. Guys like Clottey, Abraham, Sturm, Dizzy for example wouldn't have good careers with their pro styles in the ams.