Home town scoring ruins the HW Olympics. Cuban wins by at least 8 pts yet loses.

And Texas.

 

As much as robberies are bad, all these "I gave him all 3 rounds" posts show a pretty fundamental lack of understanding of amateur scoring. The way it works has always disadvantaged combo punchers as you are only ever going to get credit for one of them. You are also never going to score points for ring generalship, defense or footwork.

Am boxing with the way it is scored will always favor guys with a high guard who throw hard potshots. Whilst i disagree with the way it is scored (and they are talking heavily about moving to a 10 point must system), it is what it is and both guys in there know the rules and should fight accordingly.

 

what do u guys expect? its in london LOL

 

Incredibly, that decision was just overturned, and the ref is going to be punished.

Maybe there's hope for a Savon appeal as well, though I wonder if the Cubans believe in even filing appeals?

 

It's nothing to do with London. The referee wasn't British and the guys scoring weren't British either. They were from all over the world and have no affiliation with Britain. The only way being a home town fighter helped Joshua is with the crowd, but to imply British bias is ridiculous.

 

come on, jack. u think they werent bought? :hey

 

By any method you choose, that fight was a clear win for Savon. He won all three rounds. He also landed more clean punches. And he even landed more hard punches.

 

Deal with it.

 

No, I don't think so because it's too risky. Can you imagine the effect if a country was ever found guilty of rigging an event when they were hosting the games? It's just not worth it. It's not like fixing a pro fight, this is on a much bigger scale and helping one fighter out would have a negative affect on 200 other athletes. They'd all, at the very least, get medals and achievements taken from them but that would only be the start of the punishment.

 

very well explained. obviously it will go over the heads of the ******s here. fights like todays make a very good case for a full review and change of the scoring system.

are you serious? hometown judging is clearly a problem in amateur boxing (joshua himself lost a close fight in the worlds apparently) but i dont understand why. is it just the crowd swaying the judges, as they are all foreign and their scoring is out in the open. i dont know why foreign judges would do it deliberately, so why has is it happening? im genuinely perplexed....

 

It's not our first olympics. We are boxing fans, they probably mean that they had the Cuban out landing Joshua in all 3 rounds, which is what happened.

It was a clear robbery, such bull**** to happen at the Olympics.

I still don't know why they scrapped the live scoring but i agree, its time for the 10 point system. A clean jab = a concussive knockdown powershot is ridiculous.

 

How incredibly naive.

 

Sure, bro. :rofl:rofl:rofl

 

Just goes to show that corruption exists in all levels of the sport. Disgraceful really.

 

You seriously don't think the scale of the event, and the nationality of the person fighting, along with his overhyped medal hopes, had anything to do with it?

Then how come we see such bull**** decisions in Germany when none of the officials and judges are German? :yep