Boxing at Paris 2024 (Les Jeux de la XXXIII Olympiade)

It's a shame world boxing will need to win over about 50 more national federations, I BELIEVE they've some unofficial thing with Taiwan (Lin took part in a WB invitational), can't imagine Algeria sticking with IBA after the Khelif mess... But they'll probably struggle to turn Uzbekistan and China (Kremlev has buttered them up good and proper, China is his favourite country apparently and he's kissed the ass of the Uzbek guy), so it'll likely take a the IOC to recognise WB before those two join... At least... If Uzbekistan want to continue to win golds in boxing...

 

Didn't watch the boxing this year but if anyone did any of the boxers look good enough for the pro ranks I know us and UK only had one medalist each in omari Jones and Lewis Richardson they any good?

 

Omari Jones is good. I had him winning his fight against the Uzbek who went on & took the gold. The decision went 3-2 against him. The judges who went against him were from Slovakia, Morocco (this judge consistently scored against fighters from Western countries) & the Netherlands. The judges from the Philippines & Canada scored it to the American.

It's going to be interesting to see whether boxing stays in the Olympics. Boxing certainly pulls in the spectators & stirs the emotions like few other sports can. Including at Olympics level. It's hard, if not impossible, to see many more of the IBA-aligned countries joining World Boxing. World Boxing put on a tournament in the Netherlands a couple of months before the Olympics & all the IBA-aligned countries pulled out. World Boxing simply doesn't have that much clout amongst non-Western countries. The IBA has been paying medal winners & officials from those other countries big money to stay in line so they're not going to break ranks & suddenly realign themselves with World Boxing. Even under threat of expulsion of the sport from the Olympics.

I don't think there's much loyalty to boxing from senior officialdom within the Olympics. Notwithstanding the apparent popularity of the sport. Almost all of those officials have come from other sports. Many of them would be very jealous of how much attention (& funding) boxing receives without even trying. If boxing gets booted from the Olympics, that's money that can be redirected to other sports.

A third option (one that's apparently not being countenanced for Los Angeles) is for the Olympic Committee of the hosting country to organise a tournament (as occurred at this Olympics). That's not ideal b/c you get the draw being manipulated like it was in the Super Heavyweight division for this tournament to get the home country fighter through to the medals. On the plus side, I like Australia's chances of winning our first ever gold in boxing at the Brisbane Olympics if we get to organise the tournament.

 

Genuine 50/50 at the moment. Rumour is Japan is set to announce that it has left IBA on Sunday and will be joining WB, with suggestions that their announcement on Sunday is concerning the continuation of boxing at the Olympics. Would assume it's a domino in what will become several. But whether they get them quickly enough for 2028 is a big question.

 

I think what's going to need to happen to keep boxing in is more countries are going to need to switch & then when they reckon they've got as many as they're going to get, the International Olympic Committee will need to recognise the new body. When that occurs, others will come across even if it's only for the purpose of participating in the Olympics. That boxing hasn't been booted already indicates it's not completely friendless although I didn't like the noises coming out of the senior Australian Olympics official about boxing's future before the Olympics - 'it's on its last chance' or something like that. Mind you, he was a former coxswain in a rowing crew so what would he know about real sport? It's those types that scare me in terms of boxing's future at the Olympics. People who are used to barking orders but who don't know the taste of their own blood. Ironically, the gender controversy at this Olympics may have helped boxing's cause in that the IBA attempted to openly run interference on the Olympics in collaboration with Russia by carrying on the way they did. That may have created some resolve within the International Olympic Committee not to fold to that kind of pressure. I can't put a percentage on boxing's chances of getting through to Los Angeles. It will come down to the will of senior IOC types & presumably organisers of the Los Angeles Olympics. Would be a shame for boxing to go out when you consider how successful boxing was at the last Los Angeles Olympics. I think boxing at the LA Olympics is what's needed to give boxing a reboot in America. Several American Olympic gold medalists to follow will rejuvenate the sport over there in a way that's badly needed, imo.

 

Little girls don't have testicles.

 

Lol.

 

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan just joined World Boxing and now the number of countries is 55. Seems like a good chance boxing can stay in the LA Games in 2028. Cool to see people mounting together for the good of the sport.

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It was interesting watching the recent World Boxing Under 19 championships in terms of which countries were there & which were not. The IBA held its "Youth World Championships" at the same time. Kazakhstan sent fighters to both tournaments. Uzbekistan only sent fighters to the IBA tournament. Golovkin has been appointed to a significant role in World Boxing so that should help keep the Kazakhs on board. He's also an Olympics official with them. Was surprised to see Poland, Mexico, Ireland, France & Puerto Rico still aligned with the IBA. The Frogs used plenty of IBA officials at the Olympics which may explain what went on there. Meanwhile the IBA were openly undermining the Olympic tournament. China is a big domino that needs to fall in terms of women's boxing. The value of having brought India across was evident in last week's tournament.

Another boost for boxing is that it's been retained in the Commonwealth games for 2026. That body had a purge on sports when an Australian state bailed out of hosting duties. Boxing is one of ten sports that's managed to be retained. Presumably b/c it's actually worth watching & can draw an audience.

 

Boys have p*nises, Girls don't, if knowing that makes me an expert then yeah..... im an expert. Imane's medical report says Imane has 5-ARD, you can look that up. And Imane's new medical record says Imane has a micropenis and testes but im sure you will try and gloss over that fact to preserve credibility over something you staunchly denied.