Fight scorecard calculator
Score a fight the way the judges do — round by round on the ten-point must system, with knockdowns and deductions applied in the right order. Tap as you watch and the card keeps itself.
The fight
Score each round
Deductions are applied after the round is scored, which is how referees order it — a 10-9 round with one point taken becomes 9-9. Click a fighter's button to cycle 0 → 1 → 2.
The card
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One card is not a result — three judges score independently and the majority decides. Count the punches instead →
How the ten-point must system works
The name is the rule: the winner of a round must receive ten points. Everything else is what the loser gets. Three judges score independently at ringside, and the majority of their three cards decides the fight — which is why one person's card, including yours, is an opinion rather than a result.
Rules here follow the Association of Boxing Commissions & Combative Sports Unified Rules of Boxing, the standard adopted across US commissions, cross-checked against the WBO's published scoring guidance.
The scoring table
| Score | When |
|---|---|
| 10-9 | Won the round on the criteria. The default result. |
| 10-8 | One knockdown — or total dominance without one, at the judge’s discretion. |
| 10-7 | Two knockdowns, or a round approaching a stoppage. |
| 10-10 | Genuinely even. Permitted, discouraged, rare. |
| −1 | Referee-ordered deduction for a foul, applied after the round is scored. |
Honest caveats
The addition is exact. The judgement is not, and that is the entire difficulty of scoring boxing. The four criteria are qualitative, two experienced judges watching the same round routinely split on it, and the angle you watch from changes what you see — the judge sitting on the far side of the ring did not see the same fight you did on television.
This tool trains your eye and keeps your arithmetic honest. It does not replace a judge, and a card that disagrees with the official result is not evidence of anything by itself. If you would rather count work than score it, the punch stats calculator handles thrown, landed and work rate.
Common questions
What earns a 10-8 round without a knockdown?+−
Total dominance. The Unified Rules allow a judge to score 10-8 when one fighter overwhelmingly outclasses the other for the round — landing at will, taking nothing back — even if the opponent never touches the canvas. It is at the judge’s discretion and is scored far less often than a knockdown 10-8, which is close to automatic.
Why are 10-10 rounds discouraged?+−
Because somebody almost always did more. Judges are instructed to find a winner in each round using the four criteria, and defaulting to even is usually a sign of not having separated them rather than of genuine equality. It is permitted, and occasionally correct, but a card full of 10-10s is a card that has not been judged.
How do point deductions actually work?+−
The referee orders them for fouls, and they come off after the round has been scored on its merits. So a fighter who wins a round 10-9 and then loses a point ends up at 9-9 — the round is drawn, not lost. That ordering matters: the deduction comes off the score, it does not flip who won the round. Referees most often take one point, and the ABC mandates two for an intentional foul that causes injury — which is why this card lets you take either.
What are the four scoring criteria?+−
Clean punching, effective aggressiveness, ring generalship and defence. Clean punching carries the most weight in practice — punches that land flush and score, not punches thrown or blocked on the gloves. Effective aggressiveness means forward pressure that actually achieves something; walking forward into punches counts against you, not for you.
Scoring rounds is one thing. Winning them is another.
The 12-week Fighter program trains the power chain a scorecard actually rewards — hips, core and shoulders, periodized across three phases.