But still it'd be an intertesting topic to gauge how people feel about certain rules and commentry on rules and the interpretation of these is something that could be quite successfully done by someone with a technical black and whiute view. And there are plenty of rule variations ...

Standing 8 count or taking a knee, pulling the knee to the head or free knee, accidental foul or intentional, 10 point must system or 20 point scoring (esstially a . 5 system, what is a knock down, in case of a judging mistake or addition error after the fact, what scored higher agression, ring craft effective shots vs volume, kicks, knees, punches etc, the role of an adjudicator....

Personally I think too many rules lead to more complications than they solve - and often supercede common sense in favour of what some plonker put down on paper without considering all the potential scenarios and implications and then you get the if / but situation you have with the likes of your osh example.

Anyway it'd be an interesting thread ... the wheel may be going around but you did need to reinvent the wheel to imporve its performance - one of those factors is how the rules are applied another is the effectiveness of the rules themselves.