How is boxing judged? And does a KO immediately mean the other person wins?
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Boxing is scored by three judges. Each round they award the fighters up to 10 points and take points away for being knocked down, breaking rules, or not being able to control the fight. A ko wins as long as it wasn’t an illegal hit
The judges are independent of each other. They have their own perspectives and it could be quite subjective. Which is why some judges score for fighter A while the others give it to fighter B. But if their scores are all for the same fighter, then it’s a unanimous decision. A knockout is a definite win. Because if the opponent is out cold, then the fighter who knocked them out has no one to fight anymore. So they win.
A KO is a win. You can get your ass kicked round after round so on a scoring basis you would lose but if you KO your opponent then you win.
A TKO is a technical KO and could be called by the ref. If your opponent is standing and conscious but not able to continue then they can call the fight. If you are dazzed to the point of being unable to defend yourself the fight would be called.
If you cheat then you would be disqualified. So if you decide to kick your opponent in the nuts and then sucker punch them and KO then then you are disqualified and go to jail, get fined and get banned.
>How is boxing judged?
As someone else said, there are three independent judges who watch the bout and decide who wins each round. Professional boxing is scored a 10 point system that awards the winner of the bout 10 points. Generally the other boxer is awarded 9 points unless they were clearly dominated in a round. Rounds are scored based on a boxer’s ability to land clean punches, their ring-generalship, and their ability to execute their offensive game plan. Boxers generally have points deducted for being knocked down or executing excessive fouls.
>And does a KO immediately mean the other person wins?
A boxing match is legally over when one boxer cannot respond to the referee’s count. The referee is the final say in the match, and if they decide that one boxer is unfit to continue, they can end the match with a TKO (technical knockout) as opposed to a failure to respond to the referee’s 10 count. A referee can stop the count at any point if they see that the boxer is clearly unable to respond/is not fit to continue fighting. There are different rules in terms of when a boxer can compete again based on how they lose a match, with longer wait periods dictated for the more severe a finish.
Boxing (and other sports like MMA) use a 10-point-must system. There are 3 judges that judge each round individually and give 10 points to the fighter that they think won that round and 9 or less to the other (it’s normally 9 unless the round was really one sided). If there is no ko the fight goes to a decision and the fighter with the most points wins (points are deducted for fouls like biting ears)
The ko immediately finishes the fight because a ko’d fighter can no longer intelligently defend himself and would just become a punching bag otherwise. The other fighter wins. Yes.
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