Ring generalship: A purely subjective scoring criteria?

[El Kabong]

The way I view ring generalship is: the fighter who is employing their strategy most effectively.

Which means it's different for different fighters. For pressure fighters ring generalship means stalking your opponent, backing them down, making them avoid you at all costs. For a counter puncher it would be to invite in attacks from your opponent and counter effectively.

[brocktonblockbust]

well hell wlad should have lost dozens of points based on that rule above.

[Master]

I would say similar, the fighter is controlling the fight the way they want to.it is an unambiguous term but generally ascribed to older fighters like B Hop.

[Beanflicker]

Effective punching is king. If a guy is landing clean and those shots are having a visible effect on his opponent, who cares who is moving better or dictating where the fight is taking place?

Everything in boxing either helps you land effective punches, or helps you avoid effective punches from your opponent. What else really matters?

Ring generalship is something that might come into play to help decide a razor close "feeling out" round where nothing really happened.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

well hell wlad should have lost dozens of points based on that rule above.

So who is actually inforcing the rules? Are these rules universal? Do they not apply in Zaire or Germany