Professional boxing, or prizefighting, emerged in the early twentieth century as boxing ... These rules specified more accurately the role of the officials, and produced a system of scoring that enabled the ..... If two judges have one boxer winning the fight and the third judge scores it a draw, the boxer wins by majority decision.
Here's how a professional boxing match gets scored: ... scores the bout for one fighter, another judge scores it for the other fighter, and the third rules it a draw.