Pro boxers in Rio

rediculous decision / bad for boxing / bad for the olympics / bad for cuba /

it will not effect uk boxers in this olympics but at the next / unless the uk olympic org has a policy to allow only amatuers to box there are going to be quite a few boxers from
the uk maybe just below world titlists trying to get selected as the exposure would mean big money in the future.

audley harrison got 1 million for turning pro

albeit the olympics make you take part in qualifying tournaments and proffesionals are not going to want to fight in these

just thought how do cubans get selected ? do they have do do north american qualifying tournaments ?

cubans amatuers have always been proffesional fighters / just with one jobl to box.

good italian amatuers are pros as well..

 

I don't agree with this at all. What do Amateur fighters have to look forward to now? If there were separate categories for Amateurs and Pro's I would be all in favor but this is not a good decision imo. Someone is going to get hurt.

 

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some say it's insane, others just view it as one of the last sports that finally allows pros at the games.

There are pros (no pun intended) and cons to this, but first we just have to take a really close look to what a pro and an amateur boxer really is...

A pro boxer is a boxer that gets paid for his fights, an amateur doesn't.
That statement immidiately blurs the lines, because in certain countries all the amateur boxer does is box, train and gets paid by the goverment to do so, which basically makes him a full pro.
In other countries they have a dayjob in which they don't have to do much, and get multiple hours a day to train and spar often in state funded facilities.
That's called a semi-pro.
Others just have their full dayjobs and have to train in their free time.
those are actual amateurs.

So, all these guys have been fighting eachother in Olympic games trough the decades. Fair? No, not really.

Then we have the professionals.
We have the guys that train and spar and live of their fights and being hired to spar other boxer... the full pros
Then we have the majority, that can't live of their boxing income alone and have part time or even full time jobs on the side. Sometimes they move on to be able to live of it down the line. SEMI-PROS!
And the latest group is the "gig" boxers. Often poor quality journeymen that turn up for a couple of hundred bucks getting beat up for some additional income. Some have very little to no time to train, and others don't even bother it seems. Still called semi-pros.
Is this fair? Also NO!

So the majority of pro boxers aren't really pros at all, and a large number of amateurs are actually (semi-) pros with in some cases more time to train and more facillities as full pros.

it's not strange that some amateurs can beat the living s__t out of a large chunk of the pro ranks, because they're just more talented and are better trained.

So, in my view the move to pros isn't strange, but it has to be done in a smart way. And at the Olympics we get the best trained amateurs anyway.

 

I predict Roy Jones participates and finally gets redemption.

 

How will he get past real OSDT? :blood

 

His giant deluded ego will convince him that he can do it clean.

 

With just 10 weeks to go until Rio, is this a serious attempt to get pro boxers to take part, or just flagging it up for 2020 while getting a lot of publicity? There'll be some pros who won't want to compete, some who would but are in training for fights, some that want to but their promoters don't, some whose contract means it's impossible, some who would want to but are injured etc etc. Doesn't leave many who are likely to take the opportunity.

 

I'd be surprised if theres even a single one who will do it. Maybe Broner because he's insane.

 

About Bronze...

 

this is what happens when the Americans can't get a grasp on the Olympic boxing game and get their tails handed to them every 4 years

 

I hope pro boxers enter in big numbers and bully those amateurs

 

Errol Spence could kill someone. :bart If you want pros to compete, fine, hold a separate event. No headgear is just pointless. Where is Pierre Olivier Cote in this scheme? His entire style depends on banzai stoppage. Which is somewhat un-Olympian.

 

Very happy about this. Pros will be in the dark. Completely clean fighting.
These '17 year old kids' fight 29 year old VETERANS at that point-scoring system in the amateurs anyway.
Amir Khan wants to be in Olympics representing ****stan. Amir Khan doesn't know that there are aggressive juggernauts in Olympics who could clock his chin lol.
Pacquiao has turned down Olympics.

I just don't want pros to steal places of otherwise worthy Olympians.