So what do we call "amateur" boxing now?

When professionals in tennis, hockey and basketball were allowed to compete in the Olympics, did those ATP tennis players, NHL players and NBA players get banned from participating unless they joined a separate league, too?

Give me a break.

This APB organization is as corrupt as you can get.

 

What are you talking about? Why is America no longer able to compete in it?

 

Let's see. Since pros are allowed to compete, I'd say Floyd Mayweather could win a medal. Or Tim Bradley. Or Keith Thurman. It depends on which of them would qualify for the U.S. Olympic team.

But the winner wouldn't be allowed to compete because ONUR SIPAL is the PRO who is going to the Olympics - Sipal is also from Turkey, just like Killici the GREAT MIDDLEWEIGHT who would qualify over Ward, Froch and Golovkin -- because Sipal agreed to fight in the APB tournament for a few pennies.

BRILLIANT. What a wonderful pro to represent the professional ranks.

How could any of this go wrong?atsch:roll::nut

 

Transparent? You just said the guy who "won" the middleweight tournament was the recipient of two bad decisions.

Who were the judges? No idea.

How much did the winner make? No idea.

What could the guy who got robbed do to get a rematch? No idea.

Who picked the guys who entered that four-round tournament to begin with? No idea.

How did they qualify for that tournament? No idea.

Yes. Very transparent. :good

 

I'm naming the best welterweights. Pros are allowed to compete.

You can't seem to grasp that pros in all the other Olympic sports don't have to sign with some corrupt league to participate. The countries can just send their best pros.

 

Gramsey... The man with more alts then swords on the iron throne

 

Out of interest, did any/many "normal" pros go from being a normal pro to being an APB pro?

 

Again, how is this transparent?

Do you see the list of fighters they invite?

What if they want a guy to join the APB and he doesn't want them?

What if a guy wants in and they don't want to pick him?

Who decides who gets in?

And once they find enough guys willing to take their money and sign a deal ... and they have enough fighters for a tournament ... is that it?

That's how you qualify for the Olympics?

Apparently so.

I guess that's the only freaking way you end up with Onur Sipal as the lone professional welterweight to make the Olympics.

How is this better than the way it used to be -- when each country just held its own regional and then national tournaments ... and the best from each of those countries went to the games?

Never mind.

You just enjoy your APB. Sounds like a complete cluster f*ck.

 

It's "allowed" not aloud. Idiot.

And it's obviously corrupt. When half the Chicago Blackhawks played for their various countries in the last Olympics ... I don't recall them all dumping their NHL contracts and signing with a new league in order to make their respective national teams.

Same with the NBA players and the ATP tennis players.

Just the corrupt AIBA.

 

I'll call how Manny fought against Mayweather amateur boxing... Floyd beat an amateur.

 

"Like"

 

The HW division...

 

Can I name one American?

I'm rooting for Darmani Rock to medal.

 

And pitty pat powder puff punches.