The problem here is not with the new ruling its with the interpretation of people who didnt know what they were doing in the first place! This will result in even more confusion.

Its amazing reading on here and on other forums the number of people who clearly don't understand the basis of scoring.

At the moment these changes only apply to Lumpini stadium anyway so nothing is different anywhere else.

Talking to people in Thailand nothing has changed in what consitutes a scoring technique or how the fights will be judged its more about what the referee will allow and therefore how the fighters are allowed to work. If a fighter is working in the clinch throwing solid knees (or even trying to but being defended) it will be allowed to carry on and will score well. Defending well can include throws too which will still score well.

If a fighter shows dominance by throwing and unbalancing the opponent this will be taken into consideration but the point of doing this needs to be to deliver an effective knee not just to slow the action down. It stops one fighter using the clinch to simply tie another up and stop them from scoring.

What is being scored is a fight - not the number of times an opponent touches a target area like in amateur boxing so if techniques have effect they will score. It says above that in one fight one fighter was throwing a bigger variety of technique but even if these were landing on target if they werent having an effect they didnt score. The other figher by pushing forward and throwing and unbalancing the opponent was scoring with knees that were having an effect because they were hitting an unbalanced opponent. If he had just been hugging him round the waist and throwing side knees or hugging and throwing for the sake of it it wouldnt have gone the same way.