Ok back to basics..............


How Professional Boxing is Scored


The Ten Point Must System

Each judge scores each round using the following criteria:
  • Clean Punching (25%)
  • Effective Aggression (25%)
  • Ring Generalship (25%)
  • Defense (25%)
Clean punches are above the waist, on the front or sides of the body or head, and with the knuckle of the glove. The judge must determine if one boxer is landing more clean punches than the other.

Effective Aggression means landing punches while moving forward. If a fighter is aggressive but not landing punches, that does not count as effective aggression.



Ring Generalship means who is controlling the action in the ring, using strategy and skills beyond straight punching power. Is one fighter using agility and feinting to throw his opponent off guard? Or setting up his opponent for effective combinations? When one fighter moves the other around the ring at will, that fighter is displaying ring generalship.



Defense refers to a fighter's success at avoiding blows. This can be accomplished by blocking, bobbing, weaving, good footwork, and/or good movement.



Each of these criteria is supposed to be given equal weight (25%), although there's some dispute as to whether that actually happens.



So this nullifies the claim that Froch won the effective aggression category and by his own admission he was forced fight the way Dirrell wanted to, giving Dirrell the Ring Generalship category.



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