Thread: Amateur Style vs Professional

I always hear commentators on boxing talk of how someone is at a disadvantage in the pro game because they have a very "amateur" style. This strikes me as odd, surely what will succeed in one will succeed in the other (except for of course any tactics that drag longer then 4 rounds, these would only work in the pro game of course). Anyone care to descirbe to me the fundamental differences that put an amateur style fighter at a disadvantage??

in the amateurs, its more of a points system....there are more pity patter punches.
lol, a knockdown is equivilent to a jab in the amateurs apparently

See now I can see how thats possible in the Olympic scoring system with the points for punches thing going on. But in competitions such as the ABAs they use the same scoring system as proffesional boxing so I'm still confused??

A jab is the equivilant of a knock down? what the hell are you talk about... :P

oh I see what you mean... yeah... you only get scored for landing points... so if a guy hits you 20 times and you hit him 5 times and knock him down 3 times and he gets up... he's won the fight...

Unless you can keep some one down you don't want just a knock down.... if your behind on points its 10 seconds where you can't get them back.