Mexico (santos) Just Got Robbed Bigtime !!!!

That's the same with both professional and amateur boxing though. The new system they're going to swtich to could have promise; and it would apparently be closed scoring so you don't know who's up.

 

Yeah no doubt but still though regardless of what they've been told and the bull**** scoring, these guys put they heart into it and that's what gets me how they could work so hard and do everything right but in the end they end up getting ****ed over by some judges. Buts that's olympic boxing for you, that's why I don't bother watch'n that bull**** that much.

 

Because that doesn't happen in the pro ranks much.

 

It does happen but god damn from what i've been hearing its been happening a lot these Olympics and when this happen in the pros they usually get a rematch and what not.

 

It's been happening here; yeah. There's b een some ones I was unhappy with; especially in favor of the Chinese. But I do like the reforms and rule changes I've been hearing about that will be coming up post-Olympics.

 

Really what kind of changes

 

3 3 minute rounds; scoring will no longer be based on 3 judges clicking within a one second window are the big ones.

 

I'm telling you they won't be able to improve **** with whatever system they introduce, as long as the PEOPLE surrounding it are corrupt then no system will work.

There's a reason the sport as a whole is considered corrupt and such incidents don't help. It's sad because this is our favorite sport.

 

Sounds good hopefully they do come trough with these changes.

 

It's just too frustrating especially when you know what these guys go through to get there, all the training, time away from family..etc to get robbed by a few *******s.

Then again professional boxing isn't that better either, the robberies still apply and some are in the face type of robberies.

 

Not quite, as the announcement by Chowdhry (AIBA president at the time) stating that they were swithcing to electronic scoring came out previous to fight between Roy Jones and Park Si Hun, including one issued on Sept 27th of 1988 (I have a quote from him stating such, as printed in the L.A. Times on the 28th), which was a few days before that fight.

Also, and I hate to say it, but when I think of "Mexico" and "Olympic robbery" together as far as boxing goes in the Games, my first thought is from the 1968 Games in Mexico City, when Alvin Robinson fought the host country's, Antonio Roldan for featherweight gold, in a fight that was as blatant as it gets as far as home country "favouritsm" goes.

Robinson beat the hell out of Roldan during the fight and over the first couple of rounds, bloodying him up in the process. But in the middle of one of Robinson's flurries during the second round the referee halted the action, accused Robinson of butting (which nobody but the ref "saw"), and gave the verdict and the gold to the home fighter, Roldan via DQ. A decision so bad that, after thinking the ref was stopping it in Robinson's favour, even the home crowd loudly boo'd the decision of the referee

Due to the disqualification rendered by the referee, Robinson also lost his chance of a medal of any kind, but at an appeal hearing the next day (or two), the AIBA ruled that the headbutt didn't happen and enabled Robinson to take home a medal. It was only the silver, though.

 

Yeah true but most of the time the fans will demand a remach if is really that bad of a robbery. But in the amatures chances are they'll never meet again.

 

Damn, I never heard that story. Interesting. Hopefully what AIBA said about training younger officials to get new blood into the officiating system takes place as well.

 

Do you mean internationally or at all? Because at tournaments most of the top guys fight a lot; it's not uncommon for some guys to fight like 4 or 5 times in a year. Raynell and Hylon Williams fought each other...must have been 5 or 6 times overall in 2007; and it was close everytime.

 

I was talking internationally, like what are the chances of Santos fighting that guy again, then again I don't really keep up with amature boxing as much as the pros. So I can't say I'm right or not.