Official 2012 Olympic Boxing Discussion Thread

also he felt joshua's power in the second and stopped coming in
but
began peppering joshua with right hands

 

Yes, you are indeed biased.

It was a competitive fight, but it wasn't all that close. I don't see how anyone could reasonably give any of the three rounds to Joshua.

 

Without headgear, Savon gets knocked out in the 2nd after that monster punch from Joshua.

Joshua is build for the FUTURE HW DIVISION.

Savon is a Cuban. Which means this is his HW Division.

 

I wouldn't call it a all out robbery, just a very blatant hometown decision.
The Cuban would probably have won this in any other place in the world.

 

The problem is this system.......if this was scored like the pro-game I would give 2-1 to Savon in rounds as well.....but....it isn´t...

 

hardly. This system values shots landed, it is a souped up version of Compuxbox. Savon landed many more clean head-snapping shots. So the system should have rewarded Savon.

 

What is a shot landed is a subjetive thing, the judge decide what is landed or not.....in the first 2 rounds I wouldn´t say Savon´s punches were that clear...

 

so what, all boxing judging is "subjective". You made a distinction between Olympic and Pro scoring. The latter is far more subjective. It involves such nebulous criteria as "ring generalship".

Here, Savon clearly had more head-snapping blows. (Are you disputing that?). That should have benefitted him with the Olympic style scoring.

With pro-scoring, they could have arrived at any answer, just by saying, for instance, Joshua "hit harder" or had better "ring generalship".

 

Just like rounds won are subjective in the pro fight? The judges subjectively decided to reward the brit even though he landed less punches objectively, hence it was a robbery, it's pretty easy.

 

Can someone clear this up for me. It say's in this article that no extra points are awarded for Knockdowns at the Olympics. Is this correct?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19088420

I always thought the rules were you got an extra point for knockdowns and standing 8 counts.

 

I'm disgusted with the last decision. Joshua didn't even have a chance! He got bombed and outlandet big, but no...

 

Dychko and Zhang both looked impressive

 

Going by the judging of the Savon fight, the only way they'll beat Joshua is by stopping him.

 

Those two impressed me most along with Savon.

Dycko has a tremendous height and reach advantage, but he's still a great mover. And I love how he mixes up his right hand. He throws it very short and accurate, always right on the chin.

And Zhang looked very relaxed in there. His body shots were vicious.

I think the super heavyweight division is the most exciting one.

 

The Aussie was also robbed imo.

Awful night of reffing/judging. Total farce. I thought this was why the live scoring was introduced, why the hell did they get rid of it.