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Originally Posted by heurisdick
Why?
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The way it's judged. After Roy Jones got clearly, and I mean clearly, robbed in the gold medal fight in Korea, they went to a system more or less like fencing, where the judges hit a button to register a punch, and a certain % of them have to register it in a certain period of time for it to count.
At the end of the fight the total # of punches landed determines the winner, which significantly changes the way the fight is fought compared to pro fights.
In a way it promotes solid fundamental techniques like distancing and clean jabbing, but it usually fails to reward body punches and makes no room in the scoring for things like power. Even knockdowns aren't awarded in any meaningful way, other than 3 in a round ends a fight.