What is the scoring system in Olympic boxing?

Question

I like boxing but cant figure out how did he score a point. So please help me out.

Answer 1

when a boxer gets hit with the white portion of the glove if atleast 3 out of the 5 judges press their button within a 1 second window of each then that registers a point on the electronic scoring. and im not sure but im always told the person in the center of the ring gets more points.and sometimes points are based on aggresion and control.

Answer 2

if the white part of the glove hits the front part of your opponents head or torso then 3 of the 5 judges have to agree and score a point on the computer for the fighter

Answer 3

Have been watching the Olympic boxing the past few nights and it seems there is little rhyme or reason to the scoring.  In particular I watched a fight between a Russian and a Chinese fighter.  In the slow motion reply it was obvious the Russian hit the Chinese fighter with a right to the chin followed up by a great body shot to the chest.  As the Chinese fighter was forced back he took a wild swing and caught the Russian with a right palm hit to the Russians cheek.  Results were the Russian got zero points, the Chinese got 1 point.  It was bizarre.

Answer 4

It's really based on which fighter has more punches landed.