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Why score Boxing with ScoreZen

• ✓One-tap scoring, built for Boxing
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• ✓34 sports, tournaments and standings included

How Boxing scoring works

Boxing uses the 10-Point Must System: at the end of each round, every judge awards 10 points to the boxer who won the round and 9 (or fewer) to the other. A close round is scored 10-9; clear dominance or a knockdown gives 10-8; two knockdowns or total dominance give 10-7. Judges assess clean punches landed on legal target areas, ring generalship, defence and effective aggression. Penalties decided by the referee deduct points (usually 1 point) from the round total. At the end, each judge's totals are added up to determine the winner.

Match format

Olympic boxing (World Boxing): 3 rounds of 3 minutes, men and women, with a 1-minute break between rounds. Professional boxing: typically 4 to 12 rounds of 3 minutes depending on level, with a world title fought over 12 rounds. The bout takes place in a ring roughly 4.9 to 7.3 m per side. The number of judges varies (often 3 in pro, up to 5 in amateur). Round duration may be reduced to 2 minutes in some women's or youth competitions depending on the federation.

How to win

You win: on points (unanimous, split or majority judges' decision) at the end of regulation time; by knockout if the opponent does not rise before the count ends; by referee stoppage (TKO in pro, RSC in amateur) if a boxer can no longer defend himself; by retirement of the boxer or his corner (throwing in the towel); or by disqualification of the opponent. A draw is possible in pro boxing if the judges' totals are equal.

Recommended ScoreZen setup

Set up two boxers (or red/blue corners). ScoreZen counts points by simple addition: tap +1 for each point awarded to a boxer (it does not run the multi-judge "10-Point Must System" or 10-9/10-8 entry). A round counter (3 in Olympic, up to 12 in pro) and a round timer pace the bout; you end the fight yourself (KO, TKO/RSC, retirement, disqualification or decision). The winner shown is the boxer with the highest points total.

How a judge actually scores a round

Every round is scored on its own and the card starts again at each bell. Ten to the winner, nine or fewer to the loser, seven the floor, and no round may be left level. The referee does not score: World Boxing assigns five judges to every bout, and all five scores count towards the decision.

The three criteria are ranked, not weighted: number of scoring blows to the target area first, then technical and tactical superiority, then competitiveness. A judge moves down the list only when the level above is genuinely close. And a scoring blow is narrow: it must land cleanly on the target area — the front and sides of the head and torso, never the back of the head, the neck, the spine or below the beltline — with the weight of the body or shoulder behind it, with the knuckle surface of the glove, without infringing any rule, and in clear view of that judge.

Here is what surprises everyone at ringside: a knockdown does not automatically make the round 10-8. World Boxing states a round may still be judged close, at 10-9, even after a standing eight count or a knockdown. 10-8 is a clear winner, 10-7 total dominance. The French code is blunter: the knockdown has no bearing on the scoring of the round.

A warning does not change the round score either. It comes off the offender's total, one point from each judge's card, and a third warning in a bout is automatic disqualification. The round a bout ends in is still scored, even a partial one.

(Sources for this page: World Boxing, Competition Rules in force November 2024, rules 1.1, 6.1, 7.2 to 7.4, 8.6, 8.7, 8.11, 9.1, 9.10 and 13.3 to 13.12; England Boxing, Technical and Competition Rules 2026, sections 2, 8, 9 and 11 and Annex C2; FFBoxe, Code sportif Boxe Amateur 2025-2026, rules 9, 11, 13, 14, 16 and 17, and Code sportif Boxe Educative Assaut 2025-2026, rules 9, 14, 15 and 16.)

From a ten-year-old's first bout to an elite final

The bout is always three rounds; what changes with the level is how long they last. World Boxing runs three minutes for Elite and U19 and two minutes for U17, with one minute of rest between rounds in every competition. Domestic boxing is far shorter at the bottom: England Boxing runs one-minute rounds for any bout involving a ten-year-old, a minute and a half between two schools boxers, two minutes for juniors, and three by three for elite.

France sets the ladder on age category and experience together. A junior or senior boxes three two-minute rounds for the first five bouts of their record, two or three minutes from the sixth to the tenth, and three-minute rounds only from the eleventh — while a minime never goes beyond a minute and a half whatever their record.

The jury moves with the level too. World Boxing assigns five judges; England Boxing lets a club show score with five, or with three when five officials are not available, then two judges plus the referee, or the referee alone. The one combination never allowed is judges with no referee, which simply means no boxing.

Some bouts are deliberately not scored: an England Boxing skills bout runs three rounds of a minute and a half — three of one minute when a ten-year-old is boxing — must be announced as such, has no judges and no decision, and a boxer gets six of them in total before boxing competitively. Protective kit follows the level too: under World Boxing rules headguards are compulsory in U17, U19 and elite women's boxing and forbidden for elite men, and a World Boxing ring measures at least 6.10 m inside the ropes.

The officials' table on show day

A boxing show is not one match, it is a bout list. Weigh-in and medical come first — World Boxing requires separate areas or separate time slots for men and women, and England Boxing asks its competition manager for a separate weigh and medical room for the female competitors — and only then does the running order become real. England Boxing wants the bout lists in both changing rooms, the warm-up areas, and as many places as possible where the public can read them.

With manual scoring the paper moves every round. Each judge writes both scores on a slip, the referee collects them in the interval, and they reach the supervisor before the next round starts. The supervisor totals them and applies the referee's warnings as deductions. In France that chain runs through the délégué de réunion, onto the feuille de centralisation, and the whole thing is attached to the procès-verbal.

The mistakes are always the same. Forgetting a warning deduction, so a boxer wins on a card he lost. Writing a score against the wrong corner after the boxers swap. Leaving the round number off a stoppage: a French sheet reads GP RSC I 2, not simply RSC. And stopping by feel instead of by the count limits, which are not the same everywhere — three eight counts in a round and four across the bout for World Boxing Elite, U19 and U17 and for England Boxing seniors, youths and juniors, but only two and three for England Boxing schools and minors. Counts caused by an illegal blow or a foul never enter the tally.

Two more catch new officials. The bell does not save a boxer: a count reaching ten is a knockout whatever the clock says, and the mandatory eight is completed even when the boxer is up and asking to continue. In World Boxing competition no protest or appeal is permitted and bout decisions are final, so what gets written at the table stands.

What ScoreZen changes for boxing

You keep the score from your phone, the two corners named as you like, with the round you are in, a knockdown counter and the running total on the same screen. It replaces the whiteboard nobody in row eight can read, not the judges' slips or the sheet your federation wants back.

Then you share the show with a link, or a QR code taped by the door. One QR code covers the whole event, and a boxer who scans it finds their own bout inside it, so a card spread over two rings still needs one code and not two. Spectators are free, unlimited, and never need an account. TV mode fills a screen so the back rows can read it, the transparent overlay drops the live score into OBS, and the iframe widget goes on the club website.

For the card itself, ScoreZen runs knockout with an optional third-place bout, round-robin in one or two legs, pools then a final bracket, Swiss system and best-of-3 or best-of-5 series. The calendar feed publishes the dates, the fixtures export to CSV, and the read-only public API needs no key. The A4 score sheet prints for the paper you still have to hand in.

In a leisure centre with no signal it keeps counting and resynchronises as soon as the phone finds the network again, in 25 languages and across 34 sports. Afterwards the replay and the vertical story give a boxer something to send their family. Three trial matches are free for life; after that, one payment of €1.99unlocks it for life, and a club space is €4.99, €9.99or €29.99a month.

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