Olympic qualification event

Yeah unlucky Joyce he really should have qualified at the worlds he was 2 seconds away from a countback against India and he got peanlised for pushing, hope he goes pro now his style is definatley not suited to the amateurs .

 

Maxwell got beat 17-8 by the Turkish guy so Josh Taylor is going to the Olympics

:happy :happy :happy

 

17-8 is quite a clear margin of victory so I am guessing he didn't get a bad decision. Maxwell has done great in the last 1/2 years to get so close to qualifying.

 

Nolan through to the semis ..
one more win and ireland have another olympian

 

Callum Smith wins 16-6, one away from qualifying, he has done well at his new weight so far, very impressive...

 

:happy

There are 3 qualifying places in his weightclass, does anyone know how the 3rd place is decided?

Is it a box-off between the 2 losing semi-finalists or is it done on rankings?

 

Whoever loses to the eventual winner in the semis gets the 3rd place :good

 

:good I should know this. Wouldn't you be better off stepping back if you hurt your opponent and try and land more shots rather than dropping them unless you thought you could stop them.

 

Does anyone know who Scotland's last olympic boxer was?

 

Brian Carr I think, 1992

 

That's **** isn't it? They should just have the two losing semi-finalists box each other to decide who gets the spot.

 

Paddy Barnes become Irelands 4th Olympian and his second time as well by beating Romania 17-9.

 

happy days, lets hope mccarthy can keep the irish run going.

Well done to Liam Smith aswell thought the move up would be too much for him

 

Ogogo up next

 

not looking good for ogogo, down 12-6 going into final round