1. Win on points: at the end of a contest, the boxer who has been awarded the decision by a majority of the judges shall be declared the winner. If both boxers are injured, or are knocked-out simultaneously, and cannot continue the contest, the Judges shall record the points gained by each boxer up to its termination, the contest, shall be declared the winner.
2. Win by Retirement: if a boxer retires immediately after the rest between rounds, his opponent shall be declared the winner.
3. Win by Referee Stopping Contest;
a) Outclassed: RSC is term used to stop a bout when a boxer is outclassed or is unfit to continue. If a boxer, in the opinion of the referee is being outclassed or is receiving excessive punishment, the bout shall be stopped and his opponent declared the winner.
b) Injury;
1) If a boxer, in the opinion of the referee, is unfit to continue of injury sustained from correct hits or other action or is incapacitated for any other physical reasons, the bout shall be stopped and his opponent declared the winner. The right to make this decision rests with the referee, who may consult the Doctor. Having consulted the doctor, the referee must follow his advice. It is recommended that the referee checks the other boxer for injury also before he makes this decision.
2) When a referee calls a doctor into the ring to examine a boxer, only these 2 officials should be present. No seconds should be allowed into the ring or on the apron.
c) RSCH: after having received hard head blows or hits to the head making him defenseless and incapable of continuing the contest. The term RSCH is not to be used when a boxer is simply outclassed and is receiving too many scoring hits without scoring himself.
d) RSCB: after having received a hard hit to any part of the body except the head making him defenseless and incapable of continuing the contest.
e) Compulsory Count Limits: A boxer (male and female) has 3 counts in the same round or 4 counts for the whole bout. Junior competitors have 2 counts in the same round or 3 counts for the whole bout.
4. Win by Disqualification: If a boxer is disqualified, his opponent shall be declared the winner. If both boxers are disqualified, the decision shall be announced accordingly. A disqualified boxer shall not be entitled to any prize, medal, trophy, honorable award or grading, relating to any stage of the competition in which he has been disqualified, provided that in exceptional cases, it shall be open to the Executive Committee (or in their absence, the jury or acting Jury, and where there shall be no Jury, to the person or persons responsible for the conduct of the event in which the disqualification occurs), to rule otherwise. But, all such decisions, where not made by the Executive Committee, shall be subject to review and confirmation by it on receiving such report of the incident as it may require.
5. Win by Knock-out: if a boxer is “down’ and fails to resume boxing within 10 seconds, his opponent shall be declared the winner by a knock-out.
6. No Contest: a bout may be terminated by the referee inside the scheduled distance owing to a material happening outside the responsibility of the boxers, or the control of the referee, such as the ring becoming damaged, the failure of the lighting supply, exceptional weather conditions, etc. In such circumstances, the bout shall be declared “no contest” and in the case of Championships, the Jury shall decide the necessary further action.
7. Win by Walk-over: where a boxer presents himself in the ring fully attired for boxing and his opponent fails to appear after his name has been called out by the public address system, the bell sounded and a maximum period of 2 minutes has elapsed, the referee shall declare the first boxer to be the winner by a “Walk-over”. He shall first inform the judges to mark their papers accordingly, collect them and then summon the boxer to the center of the ring and after the decision is announced, raise his hand as winner.
8. A draw (Dual Matches only): 2 clubs or 2 nations in a friendly Dual Mach may agree to a draw decision, when the majority of the Judges scored the competition equally.
9. Incidents in the ring outside the control of the referee;
a) If something happens that does not allow the bout to continue within 1 minute after the bell has rung for the beginning of the first or second round (e.g. power failure), the bout shall be stopped and the boxers will box again in the last bout of the same session.
b) If the incident occurs in the third round of a bout, the contest shall be terminated and the judges are asked to give a decision as to the winner of the bout.
c) If the incident occurs in the last 3 bouts of a session on theprogram, th e boxers shall be asked to box the first bout on the program of the next session. The boxer shall be weighed and medically examined again for that bout.
