I'm tired of ppl saying

[-PBP-]

It's true though. Some people score activity and ineffective aggression and don't even know what the scoring zone is.

[Jc8804]

Every scoreboard is different. Imagine nfl refs calling the game 6 different ways. Or certain ref crews call games certain ways .

[SplitSecond]

Like I said earlier, Paulie would unfairly never have a chance if damage is how you determine a round. He'll never do more damage in a round unless he completely dominates. If he's landing more clean punches, he should win it.

The problem with scoring a round based on power and damage is pre-fight perception of a fighter's power. Herrera doesn't punch as hard as Garcia, yet his punches were affecting Garcia more than the other way around. Algieri doesn't hit like Ruslan, but for most of 12 rounds, Provodnikov's power wasn't affecting Algieri and Algieri was snapping Ruslan's head around.

Clean punching is the main criteria. Anything else only comes into play if the clean punches are close in number.

damage is definitely a scoring criteria and it is covered in the clean/effective punching category

but you are thinking of it wrong you dont think who did more damage that round as a whole, you compare the damage of the blow to the other guys output, the clean punches can come from one fighter and the effective punches can come from the other, and this is where the subjectivity of scoring comes in, you have to decide if the many clean blows outweigh the very few effective blows

i think of it like a barometer or, you know those combo bars that you slowly have to fill up in games? that's how i think of it with punches, effective punches fill up the bar a bit more, so if you get hit 5 times and only land one big shot, it's not winning you the round unless you get a kd or those 5 blows weren't punches at all but touching and completely ineffective

but if you imagination sucks, this is why the categories exist

clean/effective punching
defense
ring generalship
effective aggressor

if you can only land one big punch after losing 2:30 of the rd, then you were obviously losing in all the other categories thus you dont win the round, even for a guy like malignaggi, but he still has to land some stiff blows, and malignaggi in the broner fight didn't really do that, his body shots for the most part shouldn't even be categorized as punches in that fight