How embarrassing will the Olympics be for Austrailian boxing?

nice to see your support.......

 

What poof wheres a helmet and oversized novelty gloves to box anyway

 

Why don't they make foxy boxing an Olympic Sport?

 

they are bringing in woman's boxing, hopefully its of that persuasion.

 

Though harsh, it is true.

But thats relative, its not as though they are poor boxers but compared to the Eastern Europeans, the Americans and the Cubans we aint got nothing.
Though seeing we bagged one more gold medal than the English at Manchester CG and had only 2 less total medals at Melbourne CG, we must not be to far off them.

We have had several world champs in the last decade, many title contenders and countless ranked fighters (not that counts for much) in the pro arena.
We havent had near that success in the am's, partly to with the culture of boxing down here, partly to do with boxing's low standing and participant rate compared to other sports down here but mostly because we just didnt produce anyone good enough.

 

The interest levels of boxing in Australia aint that high, plus our population isnt huge too.
I think we do quite decent compared to many other countries with larger populations.
We barely have 100 registered pro boxers.

 

Let's hope someone like aboriginal lightweight ANTHONY LITTLE can bob up and surprise us all!

 

IMO brad pitt and jarrod fletcher are our best hopes

 

A helmet which does not absorb any percussion of impact.. 10 ounce gloves which are used extremely frequently in professional world title fights. Until youve been there, having a little respect for the people that have wouldnt be a stretch.

And yes, we have several genuine medal chances. Brad Pitt is probably our best.. Jarrod Fletcher also a huge chance. Expect either to medal. Daniel Beahan isnt without a chance if he gets a good draw.

 

They aren't close to being genuine medal contenders. Outsiders at best. All your fighters qualified through the Oceania qualifiers (**** weak). They all seem to have been beaten in the first couple of rounds at the worlds.

I'm not saying Australia won't get a boxing medal just that it's a massive long shot.

 

Brad Pitt, Jarrod Fletcher, Todd Kidd (till he meets Frankie Gavin again ) are all solid boxers.

As for the **** and wind comment..:roll: when was the last time any of the Aussies talked up their chances- or spoke out of turn?? Give then some credit FFS...

 

I heard that Chowdrey or what ever his name was - i.e. the most corrupt official in WORLD sport has been dumped as the IABA head. Hopefully we only see every other fight being judged with a bias and not them all....

 

We have some decent boxers in the Olympics, but i doubt any will get close to a medal sadly.