AIBA World Rankings at 25/08/2011 Team Members currently ranked in top 50 are: 52kg Andrew Moloney (ranked 12) 60kg Luke Jackson (ranked 6) 81kg Damien Hooper (ranked 4) 91+ Alexey Muhkin (ranked 16)
i see that cameron hammond is ranked at welter but got beat by 1 point by basile at the nationals so isnt our 69kg rep.
Bouts commence today. Link to official Draw Sheets: http://www.aiba.org/en-US/2011/2011WorldBoxingChampionships.aspx Australia's 49kg entry Reggie Palm Island withdrew due to injury. Best of luck to all our team!!
Round 1 Draw http://www.aus-boxing.com/2011/09/25/aiba-world-boxing-championships-2011-preliminary-round-1-draw/
AIBA Men's World Championships - Day 1 91kg Sammy Blyth (AUS) lost to Christian Demaj (ALB) 10:12 (2:4, 5:8, 10:12)
do you guys know it can be watched live on line from round of 16 thru to the finals anyway read on it here http://www.aiba.org/en-US/news/ozqsp/newsId/4131/news.aspx
Here's a live foreign legal link that covers everything.. but it only shows one ring at a time http://www.yildiz.tv/?act=dvr&chan=idmanaz
Luke Jackson just lost to the cuban fighter Toledo 11-10. I thought it could've gone Jacksons way to be honest. The Cuban style isn't so successful these days, the tight guard and countering on the inside is the way the amateur game is now. Jackson fought with the high guard and walked him down, couldn't have done anything else.
Hooper won his fight against the Indian quite easily and looked very good. His Irish rival Joe Ward lost his fight. Ward looked fat, tired and wild in there. Don't know what the deal is with him.
Hooper Books Olympic Spot At Day 9 of the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku, Australian Light Heavyweight-Damien Hooper booked his place in the Quarter Finals as well as secured a spot in next years London Olympic Games with a convincing 16-7 points win over Indian-Dinesh Kumar. Hooper now books a Quarter Final bout with Cuban Julio De La Cruz Peraza tomorrow for a chance to move into the final four. Still to fight on Day 9 is Luke Boyd and Mark Basile both fighting for Quarter Final spots as well as an Olympic berth.
I watched Lomachenko on the 4/10 and he lost to a Brazilian by 1 point. On the results page for the 5/10 it shows Lomachenko fighting an Uzbeki and he won. Whats going on there??
The Ukranians appealed because the ref was a ****ing idiot who didn't know what he was doing. Lomachenko was reinstated and took the Brazillians place.
I thought Hooper looked a bit passive in that fight against his smaller opponent. Also what's with all the switch hitting he does now, he does it alot