Pro Boxers HUMILIATED at Olympics 2016!

Who are Amnat Ruenroeng and Carmine Tommasone?

I follow boxing and I never heard of them.

This reminds me of when a terribly washed up or simply not very good boxer turns to the MMA, and he loses, and people go, "SEE. I told you so."

Danny Garcia wins a gold. Keith Thurman wins a gold. Anthony Joshua wins a gold. Gennady Golovkin wins a gold. Sergei Kovalev wins a gold. Andre Ward wins a gold.

Put the best pros in with the best amateurs, the best pros win.

Put a bunch of guys who aren't really very good in with the best amateurs "at anything" in the world ... the best amateurs win.

It's not brain surgery.

 

yeah but a lot of these amateur kids would get flattened by journeymen in the pros

 

Ruenrong is one of the top 5 Flyweights in the world today. He beat Ioka a very highly ranked fighter, also beat Casimero another highly ranked fighter.

 

Put a bunch of guys who aren't really very good in with the best amateurs "at anything" in the world ... the best amateurs win.

 

Olympic style boxing is a completely different format to the Pro's all around, the weigh ins, the distance and other little things.

If these Amateurs are so good and the Pros so poor then why not throw these amateurs in at a far higher level when they turn over?

They don't because the amateurs need time to adapt and it works both ways, these pro's are throwing themselves in to a version of the sport that is completely different to what their minds and bodies are used to.

 

We're talking about world class professionals here. I've never heard Ruenrong described as "aren't really very good". He's one of the best in the world.

I get that you don't follow boxing in the lower weight classes, not everyone does, but you come across as quite ignorant when you make sweeping statements like that.

Atleast try to understand that upon which you comment.

 

This is exactly what needs to happen.

 

talking about pro's at the Olympics?. come on. its a different ball game and we all know it.

 

most of the top 'pro's' now were in the olympics and look how different/better these fighters are now

 

These guys that are losing aren't elite by any means. When elite are even good pros start getting their asses handed to them I'll be impressed.

 

He's on his last legs and way past his prime. That's probably why he went to the Olympics in the first place. Thought it would be easy work. When a guy like Crawford goes to the Olympics and gets worked then we'll have something to talk about.

 

Key word here WAS. That right there explains everything. Don't act as if the guy is 27 and prime he's not he's past his best. He went to the Olympics to try and capture what he thought would be an easy Gold medal for his country, he was wrong. N'Dam is average at best he's no world beater. Not only that he fought in the Olympics at a higher weight that he does in the pros, not that it would have mattered anyway because he's not that good in the first place. Like I said earlier when elite prime pros or even good ones start losing then we'll have something to talk about.

 

Charles Martin was recently the IBF heavyweight champion. That doesn't make him an "elite" pro or one of the best in the world. I doubt he could beat up everyone at the local Walmart.

People know who the best boxers in the world are. The pros losing in the Olympics aren't them.

 

Exactly. No one would confuse N'Dam as an elite middleweight. He was floored 10 times and lost handily to guys who aren't the best middleweights (Lemieux and Quillin). These pros thought they could drop into the Olympics and revitalize their careers with a medals. But they aren't really very good pros and they aren't very good in the amateur tourney format either.