Boxing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Lightweight Boxing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Lightweight The Lightweight class is an event on the boxing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games competition. Lightweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 60 kilograms (132.28 lbs). 34 boxers competed, this is the largest amount of entries in any weight class. Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. Both semifinal losers were awarded bronze medals, so no boxers compete again after their first loss. Bouts consisted of three rounds of three minutes each, with one-minute breaks between rounds. Punches scored only if the front of the
Boxing respond that such a position is misguided opinion, stating that amateur boxing is scored solely according to total connecting blows with no award for "injury". They observe that many skilled professional boxers have had rewarding careers without inflicting injury on opponents by accumulating scoring blows and avoiding punches winning rounds scored 10-9 by the 10-point must system, and they note that there are many other sports where concussions are much more prevalent. In 2007, one study of amateur boxers showed that protective headgear did not prevent brain damage, and another found that amateur boxers faced a high risk of brain