Official 2012 Olympic Boxing Discussion Thread

Thanks for the reply. I'll watch it then.

 

Yes:bbb:bbb

He landed **** all. A few punches on the ropes but was out landed big. It's not like he landed loads of head snapping shots.

He lost no matter what scoring system you used.

It would be fair enough to say he would have fought a lot different under the 10 point system though.

 

Canada got robbed more than the French. Vastine lost a lot of the inside exchanges .

 

Vastine? Ugh. Didn't see the end of that but Taras looked sluggish in the round I that I did see. Strange that. He looked real good in his first fight.

 

True, but they where both robbed.

 

Canada got beat - end of

 

:roll: :nut

 

Hope not, Boxing doesn't need a poor man's Timothy Bradley.

 

Why not? Regular Tim Bradley is great for boxing.

 

Evans was robbed in the second round,no way was that 6-3 for the Canadian.That round i had Evans nicking it so in a just world Evans would have been 4 or 5 points up going into the last round.

 

He did virtually nothing in the second half of the second, while Clayton landed the right pretty much at will in the last minute of the round. Besides, Clayton should easily have won the third round by at least twice the margin that he did- especially given that Evans should have had points deducted after being cautioned three times for pushing down.

 

Evans won the first 7-2 and i scored it 4-4 in the second giving Evans an 11-6 advantage going into the last round.

 

Given that Clayton dominated the third by close to the same margin as Evans dominated the first, imo; and the two point deduction that should have been called against Evans, then a Clayton could still have secured a win on the cards, even if one were to call the second even (and I think if anyone were to have gotten the edge in the 2nd frame, it would have been Clayton in any event).

I don't think it's as bad as some other decisions that have occurred in these Olympics, but I personally don't think it was that great of a decision, either. Good fight between the two, no matter what one thinks of the zult.

 

Canadian filed an appeal.

 

:nod

On the same basis that Spence filed his against Vikas (penalty should have been deducted against Evans after the third caution for the same infraction). Not saying it'll be overturned, but that's the rationale behind it.