How embarrassing will the Olympics be for Austrailian boxing?

Unfortunately our first 4 competitors were eliminated in their first bouts.

Paul Fleming had a red-hot go against the Frenchman though. Went at him from the first bell!

Anthony Little (LW) got through very well 14 points to 2, and now faces the Russian competitor, and we've still got Brad Pitt (HW) to come.

 

Ok its official.... outta 9 boys, 1 got through...

Brad Pitt got out pointed last night and Daniel Beahan got stopped in the 1st round....


Anthony Little faces athens gold medalist Alexey Tishchenko in his next bout... It's a tough fight for him but i believe Anthony can produce the goods required to beat the Russian!!

 

lets hope so. what time is the fight? will sbs show it?

 

Im confidant Anthony can do it.

Brit David Price just knocked out the gold medal favourite in the super heavy division, which is a pretty big upset.

 

whatarock, who was the super hvy favourite? and is price that big gangly white kid?

 

Price is a whitey, he is British and won commonwealth gold in melbourne. He did alright in the worlds but I think he pulled out of his fight with the enventual gold medalist from Italy injured.

He was an outside chance at a medal because he had shown pretty good form against world class opponants but no one would have bet on him beating Islam Timurziev the Russian and betting favourite. Few were sold on price before these games.

Islam was the favourite
Followed closely by the Italian world champ.

Islam was the euro champ, who had wins over the awesome Cuban Solis and only was relegated to bronze at the worlds because he pulled out of his match with the Italian with illness, he had already beaten the Italian.

I put a lobster on the Chinaman about a week ago. I think he was paying $17 I just thought cause he is the hometown bloke and actually not a bad fighter, (he bronzed at the worlds) that he would be in with a chance at the gold. My bet is looking possible now..

More than likely Cammerelle or the Ukranian (his name escapes me, starts with "G" ends with "ov") will bag it now however.

But what do I know, I always get **** like this wrong and I would have been 100% sure Islam was finishing the games with the gold a few days ago.

 

hopefully the next one will be better theres alot of up and coming amateurs fighting at fitzroy gym atm (mundine pops in a couple times a year believe it or not), 2012 Aus gonna clean up u watch