Official 2012 Olympic Boxing Discussion Thread

boo britanee boo

 

Irrelevant to what I said. But I'll address that anyway.

For some reason people still buy into all this national pride/nationalist bull**** and get behind their guy. You suddenly expect fans who aren't hardcore boxing followers to say "**** this guy"? In that case I expect droves of Mayweather and Pacquiao fans to close their accounts for the robberies/gifts they've gotten.

Joshua didn't deserve gold, but he does deserve respect for hanging in there with guys like Savon, Cammerelle and Dychko. Especially considering he's in no way mature as Savon or Cammerelle as a fighter.

Blame AIBA for boxing. Blame the diving body for any diving **** ups etc.

Cammerelle rightfully appealing. AIBA rightfully listening on in.

 

Great comments from Lennox

 

Joshua got another gift.

 

No. There was a positively in there too.

 

He said Joshua won it big, the scorecard should not have been close, Khan says Josh won easily no doubt.

 

From BBC's website

 

It was a close fight.

I had Camarelle winning it by a point. But this was no robbery.

Because of the shitty scoring throughout this tournament, whenever there is a close fight, people want to scream robbery. No robbery took place there. On top of that its a British fighter at London 2012, which gives people even more of a reason to scream robbery. Not surprised.

At the end of the day it was a close fight. A robbery is when someone clearly wins but does not get the decision. Camarelle did not clearly win

 

Italian journalists have apparently got bat**** crazy at that decision. Can't believe it

 

Regarding past appeals where the original decisions had been dreadful. Then the presenter said the one official in question had been sent home. Lennox said he shoulnt have had his airfare paid and should have been made to walk home.