Official 2012 Olympic Boxing Discussion Thread

Who wrote that? Anyway, it's wrong.

 

People who hyped Joshua are hurt from the backlash of his robbery win? :|

 

Nobody is hurt about that. People are roaring that the Ogogo fight is a robbery.

It wasn't. It was a close fight and the hometown fighter got the nod. Big Deal.

It was a close fight because the 2nd standing 8 count was total bull**** as well.

Box Rec even said the 2nd 8 count was not needed.

 

4.2 In case of a tie in the Final Scores:
4.2.1. First, delete the lowest and highest Judges’ total scores in each red and blue corner.
Then, the winner will be determined by the total scores of the remaining three Judges of
each red and blue corner.
4.2.1. Second, in case of a tie after the above process, all five (5) Judges shall be asked to
press the button once for the Boxer who has won. The decision is made by the majority
of the panel of these five (5) Judges.

There you go. Didn't know the "judges click" part myself.

edit: this means the individual judge's scores has to be viewed, not the three scores for each round.

 

Looks like most site aren't up to date!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/7904164/London-2012-Olympics-boxing-guide.html

http://boxing.about.com/od/amateurs/a/oly_rules.htm


I found the AIBA pdf...

http://aiba.org/documents/site1/docs/technical_and_competition_rules_201207018.pdf

It's still incomplete or i missed something.
What if one judge give a point and another judge doesnt...

Can't find this...

 

:think How do they calculate the countback score?

 

Joshua is much better than Audley IMO and I think ( despite what I wrote ) that he will have a better pro career , the problem is that with scandals like last night they're destroying his credibility , he has now to prove himself in his next bout and look good , another hometown decision and his rep is over . If he wins the Olympics he'll be an undeserving champ IMO , a bit like Canelo , still a kid , with lots of potential , but not yet at his peak , holding a title hostage and beign overhyped to the rafters . Peace .

 

8 counts don't mean **** anyway...

 

That is prefectly ok. It's the individual scores that count. One judge clicked a round 1 blue, 1 red; another clicked a round 10 red, 10 blue; 3 remaining clicked 4-4, 6-6, 5-8. Total score is 5-6, based on three judges with the "most similar score".


(I'm away for a while. I hope it helped)

 

How is the countback score calculated?

 

the three most similar total scores are tallied.

 

but the other scores had it 3 of the closest judges.

i hope another amatuer boxing organisation can come up out of it. because this is turning into a joke. part of it is the tail wagging the dog. how dare some of these officials feel the need to wield thier power to stop a competitor of 4 years work due to grey areas like the holding thing last night.

the judges and the refs are there to say who was the winner had the fight had continued to dangerous level of punishment.

**** em all.

 

Good man :good

 

O'Neill fought well even though he didn't win. The German was just to strong for him. Ireland's first loss....

And Vasyl Lomachenko, one of my favorite boxers in the world amateur and pro, looked great as usual. Barely broke a sweat.