Official 2012 Olympic Boxing Discussion Thread

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15020658

 

Disgusting. Im glad this came out

 

True , the Irishman was tall and lanky , at least he was akward but the Puerto Rican got truly owned by the Kenyan , even the comentators said so . Terrible . Peace .

 

i mean bad decisions are gonna happen. but it's how the aiba wanted to sort of cut down all the aspects of the match toooo guy lands clean punches. what about the jab. hat about body shots. what about punches that hurt the guy but are not clean enough. it just turns into hold your gloves up as high and as strong as possible....removes the sporting aspects of the sport.

 

They were found innocent were they not?...

 

Indeed I am. Won't be much of a difference between amateurs and professionals when the headguards goes off too.

 

I fully agree. Pretty much every close fight is bound to be a robbery. Most decisions were correct because one guy dominated the other

I would welcome a 10 point must scoring system

 

True. Its good for boxing, will stop guys from pitty patting their way to gold

 

the idea was that an agent almost literally pushed the envelope but journalists found out about it then both parties put up their hands like "what gov"

 

I've only seen 3 fights today and 2 of them had terrible judging.

 

BBC Newsnight Jorunos. Sadly Newsnight, IMO, have very little creditability , living in Britain and having watched Newsnight a few times I certainly wouldn't take them as a serious bunch of journo's.

 

Nigerian to get robbed!

 

nigerian looks like a middleweight...tall middlewieght where as the jordonian looks massive.

 

if you have watch world series of boxing they have a very good style not pro style exhibition skill based style.

 

That was an awful first round. :-(