Professional Boxer Hassan N'Dam OUT in the FIRST ROUND of Olympics!!

He's a middleweight but he's competing at 178 lbs.

None of the pros are used to same day weigh ins.

 

most 178lb olympic fighters would probably be able to make middleweight in the pros though, it's not like he's at a disadvantage.

 

Thank god for that.

 

NDam got bossed up by Lemmy in one of the most lopsided fights I've ever seen, I don't think anybody expected him to go far in the amateurs.

Any top level amateur owns him and Lemmy as well no matter what rules they're using. They call it Bumland for a reason.

Surprised the guy who sonned Shoe didn't qualify though.

 

All I know is that CST80 called Brook a "slick fighter" and that's some pure bull****.

 

atsch

...that is,atsch @ HNN bothering with this distraction from his pro career in the first place but also atsch directed at the people refusing to acknowledge the mitigating circumstances of his poor showing in the qualifiers and this premature exit. Because of the weight situation he is competing effectively two divisions above his natural one.

All things being equal, they aren't. This isn't like proof that amateurs beat pros their own size.

 

You're missing the point. There's a difference between a single 24-hour weigh in a few times a year, and REMAINING on weight over the course of several weeks. Amateurs who compete year-round in international tourneys are acclimated to that. Pros aren't, it's a system shock for them.

He is fighting at or near his walking around weignt. His opponents in terms pros would be light heavies or cruisers.

 

It doesn't even out. You're inadvertently just proving my point.

Hassan probably couldn't maintain 160 on the nose for the duration of the Olympics, nor could most pros maintain their official weight over that long. It just isn't what they're used to. It completely disadvantages them against amateurs accustomed to this way of doing it and forces them to fight naturally bigger men to guarantee not missing weight.

Never in the pros do you have to plateau on a specific weight (on the nose) for more than a couple of days..in many cases, literally just one day.

 

N Dam is use to it as a Former Amateur

 

atsch

Most pros are former amateurs. You're completely missing the point.