How do you rank and weight the 4 criteria for scoring/judging boxing matches?

[mconstantine]

For me...

1. Clean Punches (80%)
2. Effective Aggression (10%)
3. Defense (5%)
4. Ring Generalship (5%)

[The Big Dunn]

For me...

1. Clean Punches (40%)
2. Effective Aggression (20%)
3. Defense (25%)
4. Ring Generalship (15%)

there is no rank when scoiring a fight. i would say clean punching is most important but the rest are all equal.

[mconstantine]

there is no rank when scoiring a fight. i would say clean punching is most important but the rest are all equal.

There may not be an official ranking, but I think different judges weight and rank them differently.

[Bushbaby]

Effective aggression & ring generalship are thoroughly misused imo.

[New England]

the other criteria are a means to an end.


you score the round for the more effective puncher.


who does more damage?

[tredh]

Effective aggression & ring generalship are thoroughly misused imo.

Very true but the fact of the matter is most fans even so called die hards don't even know what the 4 scoring criteria is. You can tell when they describe how they scored a fight.

[The Big Dunn]

There may not be an official ranking, but I think different judges weight and rank them differently.

I don't know for sure. It depends on how they are trained. to me its logical that clean punching would be most important.

tredh

Very true but the fact of the matter is most fans even so called die hards don't even know what the 4 scoring criteria is. You can tell when they describe how they scored a fight

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100% true statement.

[Bushbaby]

Very true but the fact of the matter is most fans even so called die hards don't even know what the 4 scoring criteria is. You can tell when they describe how they scored a fight.

I say it's dependent on who's fighting. For example, IMO both the Cotto/Floyd fight & the Cotto/Trout fight were very similar. I personally thought both were pretty close going into say the 9th round.

However I've noticed many Floyd fans claiming Cotto got dominated by Floyd, but that the Trout fight was almost even. I even think there were some guys now saying cotto didn't even win round 8 against Floyd, unbelievable, but that's just me.

[B-Bomber]

In my opinion it depends on the circumstances, and of course on judges' preference.

For instance, if fighter A is the aggressor, throws 100 punches in one round and lands 5 clean shots, while Fighter B only throws 10 punches, lands 4 and manages to keep the fight on the center of the ring, I'd score the round for Fighter B because of defense and ring generalship. Also his aggression would be in substance more effective.

[techliam]

What about the 5th factor? The champion/more popular fighter tends to get given the close rounds.