Olympic Style Boxing

[Von Milash]

don't know enough about olympic boxing, but in amateurs whoever throws the most punches usually wins. that's why it's not necessarily indicative of your future success as pro.

Max Kellerman said it best. ask yourself who you'd have rather been in that round. That's the guy you give the round to.

[tyciol]

Yeah it's true that one shouldn't be rewarding people only for power and to give incentive to be skillful, but this doesn't necessarily induce people to be skillful, it's not just powerful hits that lack technique, fast weak hits can be unskilled and lack proper form too, but they could still win someone a lot of points if they hit the target.

[Von Milash]

all this talk means one thing, and one thing only:

never let it go into the hands of the judges.

[wesrman]

Its hard to knock someone out that is wearing head gear, and even if u are dominating the fight u can still get screwed. Ask Roy Jones.

[Salty]

Its hard to knock someone out that is wearing head gear, and even if u are dominating the fight u can still get screwed. Ask Roy Jones.

The headguards are there to stop you getting cut and not to absorb punches, you get a clean punch on the chin and it's lights out. However it is completely different from pro boxing, your there to win on points (seeing as knockdowns aren't rewarded), where as pro's go for knockouts.