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

What do you mean by "Their bodies have changed"?

 

Bodies don't need to adapt to 'not doing anything/not cutting weight'. It's very very simple. The guy isn't cutting significant weight, like every other amateur. It's a level playing field.

 

If I understand your point, then you are saying that if you change the rules you change the outcome. Pros have an edge with the pro rules and amateurs are favored by amateur rules. Change the rules and you change the outcome of the game. Winners are no longer winners and losers are no longer losers. You shake things up and have completely different match ups, different situations, and different champs. The pros lose in the amateur ranks and the amateurs lose in the pros. Some thrive in both, but they are not the same thing.

 

:think

 

I agree with this.

 

I think N'Dam viewed the Olympics this year as some slipping fighters have viewed the UK tournament PRIZEFIGHTER in the past.

He thought he could roll in, win a handful of three-rounders over a couple weeks, win a gold, and his career would get a boost.

But N'Dam was never really one of the best in the world as a pro or amateur. He got dropped 10 times by Lemieux and Quillin (who never were the best middleweights). He beat a bunch of guys in France but really nobody that you'd be impressed by.

When N'Dam was an amateur 12 YEARS AGO, he made the Olympic team with that convoluted scoring system but didn't medal either.

He was never going to win a gold medal. I'm glad he got bounced the way he did. I don't want the Olympics to become the bastion of fading pros who are trying to give their careers a boost.

If the best pro champs ... or the best rising contenders ... want to participate in the Olympics, great. Let's see the best fighters period square off.

But N'Dam isn't one of those guys. I don't know why he or anyone else thought he was going to win in Rio.

 

In other news, 2012 light heavyweight olympic gold medalist Egor Mekhontsev had a draw with journeyman Alexander Johnson who was coming off a loss against a man named Todd Unthank May.

It goes both ways

 

Actually, 12 years ago in the 2004 olympics Ndam did quite well. He beat Andy Lee in the second round before losing in the third round to the eventual winner Gaydarbek Gaydarbenko 26-13.

Gaydarbenko beat none other than Gennady Golovkin in the final, 28-18.

 

Pros should not box in the Olympics, serves them right.............

 

Oh no what a stupid and ridiculous idea to let seasoned pro's fight baby amateurs and little kids and destroy their dreams and and and!!!

:rofl :!:

 

this.

 

Didn't Ndam only fight at 178 lbs because someone from his country had already qualified at 165 lbs?

 

This.

A lot of people fail to realize that knowing how to fight and pace yourself over three rounds is a skill in itself.

Anyone who has seen the UK Prizefighter format made by Eddie Hearn can attest to this. Usually the more experienced fighter in the tournament is the pre tourney favourite, but, more often than not, these guys would lose to less experienced fighters (who before the tournanment are fighting 4 rounders) because they are used to fighting 10-12 rounders and they couldn't adapt to the quick fire three rounder.