Some countries will sanction 2 minute rounds for bouts aswell as the usual 3. This is reasonably common in Britain for fighter starting their...
and even for the 10% that do meet that criteria less than 1%(of that 10%) are scored. I've seen guys dropped from body shots that weren't scored....
Clean accurate punches with appropriate force landing with the white part of the glove to the torso are meant to be scored, in general they are...
The IOC would never approve professional boxing in the Olympics, too barbaric for their liking.
Shawn Estrada won 8-2 against Ezequiel Maderna of Argentina at Middleweight. America has no Light-Heavyweight so there won't be another American...
Body shots are barely ever scored in amateur boxing, I've seen guys double up their opponents with body shots and not have them scored.
Sutherland has a bye in the first round, an easy draw in the second and then the Silver medallist at the World Championships(who beat him 20-13)...
Wasn't that over Reid spitting on him during the fight ?
I wasn't a draw as the Nigel Wright v Jonathon Nelson+ either the Smith-Jon Reid or the Robin Reid-Brinkley wasn't part of the competition and...
o0cNugcG6zg While you do make some valid points about the amateur system, generally jabs aren't really scored and it's the straight punches which...
What if there was no more water weight to lose ?, then 3lbs goes from an easy amount to lose to impossible.
http://www.aiba.org/en-US/events/2008Olympics.aspx The draw for all weights is there on the right.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/boxing/news/newsid=182857.html?_source=rss&cid= American Gary Russell comlapsed while trying to make weight, he was...
August 9th-preliminaries for Middleweight and Light-Heavyweight 01:30-03:00 Middleweight 03:00-04:30 Light-heavyweight 07:00-08:30 Middleweight...
But wouldn't that be a second defense then :p
