olympics boxing scoring system needs to be changed.....

i think the scoring system used is to promote good boxing technique.

the judging definately wasnt good in this tournment, but the refereeing was much worse, just look at all of the italians heavy Russo fights. theyre horrible, and he still gets a medal

 

Come back when you get some original and actually workable ideas. The headgear isn't going anywhere and there's no way it's switching to a completely subjective scoring system.

 

I don't mind the head gear at all. The scoring is what is unbeleivable. They should turn to open subjective scoring based ONLY on clean effective punching. That is a good comprimise since we will know the score after every round and judges aren't relegated to pushing buttons. Also it keeps the sense that you have to hit your opponent cleanly to win but not so narrowly limited.

 

Get rid of the scoring system and the headgear.

 

You do realize that for the rest of the world, amateur boxing isn't just a farm system for the pros, right? Headgear isn't going anywhere, and really to hold these tournaments with the safety of the competitors being first, you need it.

The scoring system I think is changing to a system where each judge is independent and has the electronic pad in front of them and just scores the match based on what they're seeing and at the end of the match the decision is based on total number of judges voting for a certain boxer.

 

I disagree.

1. 25-30 year old experienced boxers that have been fighting for years aren't amateurs. The only difference between the pros and many of these so-called amateurs is income.

2. As you already know, headgear wasn't always used in the Olympics. It was more competitive before the use of head gear. It was just fine before.

 

Yes, and amateurs also were much more prone to cuts, cauliflower ears, and brain damage before as well. I do box amateur and honestly if they get rid of the headgear, there's no point in staying amateur. If you're going to take that punishment you might as well get paid for it.

 

Yup, I agree.

 

Headgear has nothing to do with the lousy scoring. How did that enter the picture in the first place? There is nothing wrong with headgear, in fact, I think they should use it in the pros.

Currenty four judges score the number of clean punches landed. I think three out of four have to agree, if so, a point is awarded. My suggestion would be to simply drop it down to two-out-of-four for a point to be awarded. This would help a great deal. And for heavens sake, count body blows.

 

It's 3 out of 5, LD. The reason you never see body shots counted is they're hard for 3 judges to see.

 

:think good point

 

It's not jsut me either. I was talking to a guy from my state who's been around a long time and also went to the Olympic Trials last year, he said the same thing. If he turned pro he wasn't going to go out there and go to war and get all beat up in 4 rounders, it wasn't worth risking getting hurt like that unless there was a lot of money in it.

 

Then they might as well turn professional. The amateurs are all about making your opponent miss and scoring your own in the process, that's how you win fights there and has been the case forever.

 

No kidding.