Amateur's affecting Boxing detrimentally.

[donnydarkoIRL]

I must admit I'm not really familiar with the amatuer scene but hasn't it pretty much always been this way though?

I've always thought that the amatuer game rewards technical ability and accuracy but ignores other facets of professional boxing, i.e the real physical qualities needed to win, power, stamina, conditioning, heart etc.

It's probably a great test of a boxers skill but is not really relavent to real professional boxing, kind of like how a snooker player may be a world trick shot champion but not a decent pro tournament player because he lacks a complete all around game.

That make anys sense?

Hey again Bilbs,
No, computer points scoring has been introduced in the last ten years.
Before that pen scoring was used in which rounds were judged on Effective aggression, Style, Defense and punches landed. This was more objective and if one had impartial judges a good way of scoring a fight.
This is still commonly used in local tournaments and some minor championships.

I agree, the amateurs are breeding two types of fighters;
1) The accurate counter puncher, throwing few punches but landing well.

2) The aggresive scrappy puncher, who throws volumes of less clean punches landing a small percentage of a large volume in hope that he will out score the opponent.