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Can someone explain what the difference between amature and professional boxing.

Example:

Amature: 4 Rounds............... Professional: 6 Rounds or more
Amature: Face Protection...... Professional: No Face Protection


What else?

2 mins rounds - 3 min rounds

corners cant speak during fights - corners can speak

gloves

vest - no vest

you get paid in pros.

Thanks for reply.

What gloves? Pro and Amature does wear gloves.

Amature: 4 Rounds............... Professional: 6 Rounds or more
Amature: 2 mins rounds.......... Professional: 3 mins rounds
Amature: Face Protection........ Professional: No Face Protection
Amature: Wear Vest.............. Professional: No vest
Amature: Don't get Paid......... Professional: Get Paid

Any more???

Amature: Corners cant speak during fights.... Professional: corners can speak
[What do you mean Corners cant speak during fights, i thought they do?]

Obviously its not a set in stone ruling that a pro fight has to be over six rounds.

The Contendor series was over 5 rounds, and these were official pro contests.

Also, wasn't Harrison sheduled to fight the pub landlord (cannot remember his name, but McAfferty took over) over 4 rounds. It would have been cleared but for the fact that in the UK the main event has to be 6 rounds or more.

Alot of pro fights are 4 rounds.


And Amateur gloves are 12oz, where as Pro gloves are 8-10oz

Amateur Boxing is more like fencing at International level and there are no Nigel Rafferty's either.

Amateurs use the computer scoring system. Pro's use Judges/Refs to score fights

Some Amatuer shows still have judges. A local one I went to had judges.

Another key difference - you don't get to see a couple of 10 years olds battering each other mercilessly while their mothers encourage them at a professional show. They don't hold back either.

Points in the amateur's are scored with the white patches on the knuckles of the gloves, promoting accuracy, precision, clean punches etc. This is not used in proffessional boxing as it would put Matt Skelton out of a job.

Also you probably know but with few exceptions you must have a good amateur record before you are considered for a pro license. You'll get the criteria for that at bbbofc.com or .co.uk. one of the two.

And many pro fighters start with a few 4 rounders (even x2 mins in length) so that the huge endurance difference can be gradually realised.

Tantum wrote:Alot of pro fights are 4 rounds.


And Amateur gloves are 12oz, where as Pro gloves are 8-10oz

ALL MY AM FIGHTS WERE 10 OZ GLOVES

The challenge of finding a knockout punch is less important than the need to accumulate points through the bout.

The use of the head guard constitutes one of the most evident differences compared to professional boxing. Competitors wear red or blue vests to denote their "corner" and shorts must be at least mid-thigh length.

In Olympic competition, competitors are not allowed to have a beard, only a thin moustache is permitted!

And while the pros slug it out for anything up to 12 rounds, the amateurs are limited to four two-minute rounds.

No competitor over the age of 34 is allowed to participate, except for those boxers who turn 35 during the Olympic tournament.

There are only three commands used by a referee: "Stop," when ordering the boxers to cease boxing; "Box," when ordering them to continue; and "Break," when breaking a clinch, upon which command each boxer will step back before boxing.

A Super Heavyweight Divsion is included in the Amateurs

Light fly weight (48kg)
Fly weight (51kg)
Bantam weight (54kg)
Feather weight (57kg)
Light weight (60kg)
Light welter weight (64kg)
Welter weight (69kg)
Middle weight (75kg)
Light heavy weight (81kg)
Heavy weight (91kg)
Super heavy weight (+91kg)

Under the rules of amateur boxing's international governing body (AIBA), 10-ounce gloves are to be worn by boxers in all weight classes. The regular hitting surface must be marked with a clearly discernable colour -- red for the boxer in the red corner and blue for the blue corner. No boxer is allowed to wear his own gloves.

MTG wrote:

Tantum wrote:Alot of pro fights are 4 rounds.


And Amateur gloves are 12oz, where as Pro gloves are 8-10oz

ALL MY AM FIGHTS WERE 10 OZ GLOVES

Might very from state to state or country to country... A lot of amature fights I go to use 16oz gloves and head gear. I have seen a few at 12oz... but never anything lighter.

Where were you boxing with 10 oz gloves? What board sanctioned it?

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TheRock wrote:Amature: 4 Rounds............... Professional: 6 Rounds or more
Amature: 2 mins rounds.......... Professional: 3 mins rounds
Amature: Face Protection........ Professional: No Face Protection
Amature: Wear Vest.............. Professional: No vest
Amature: Don't get Paid......... Professional: Get Paid

Any more???

Amature: Corners cant speak during fights.... Professional: corners can speak
[What do you mean Corners cant speak during fights, i thought they do?]

when ever i have been boxing if my coach/corner is shouting to me during the fight , action gets stopped and he gets warned to stop it, is that not same everywherew??

Amateur boxing is for boys.
Professional boxing is for men.

Dynamite Dean Phillips wrote:Amateur boxing is for boys.
Professional boxing is for men.

Tell that to the Cubans

Owain wrote:

Dynamite Dean Phillips wrote:Amateur boxing is for boys.
Professional boxing is for men.

Tell that to the Cubans

To their faces!

Owain wrote:

Dynamite Dean Phillips wrote:Amateur boxing is for boys.
Professional boxing is for men.

Tell that to the Cubans

Actually it has been suggested on more than one occasion that some of the success the Cubans enjoy can be attributed to their top boxers often being grown men with more than 10 years experience at top level. When pitted against a teenager or someone in their early twenties it can be a major advantage.