The Offical Team USA Olympic Boxing Thread

I don't think US fighters want to do Olympic boxing because you can't build hype with a medal run anymore. Olympic boxing in the US went from a primetime event on a major network to the Ocho of NBC networks

 

Am I the only one who thinks Deontay Wilder's stock shot up with this **** poor showing? He's the only medalist in 8 years.

 

:verysad

 

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Dont think its so much the fact America getting worse, more the fact other countries like GB improving. Something that can also be seen reflected in the overall medal table.

 

A lot of American fighters and fans seem to think they have a good given right to be the home of boxing, have the best fighters, win all their fights and take all the belts/ medals. If not they get stroppy and don't like it.

I'm pretty sure this is how American football, baseball and basketball came about - they didn't like losing at rugby, rounders and netball so they made up their own versions and only played amongst themselves - that way America ALWAYS wins!!!

 

They need a proper program , they need to start scouting schools , neighbouhoods , juvenil prisions , etc . You don't want a marine who's been boxing for 2 years in the Army to represent USA in the Olympics . It HAS to start anew , finally ..... they need CUBAN COACHES to work in that program like most of the emerging nations are doing ( India , UK , Irealand , Jordan , France , Mongolia , China , ****stan , Spain , Argentina , Venezuela , Brasil , Guatemala , etc ) . They have to start from the begining . Peace .

 

They need to persuade some European or Asian fighters to fight for them

 

This :good

 

Also I have to say, I'm loving this new 'well xxxxxx would beat that guy in the pros' attitude.

:rofl

 

No man , there's a lot of talent in the States , they just have to develop it . A proper boxing program , from the bottom up . Peace .

 

another ameri-CAN bites the dust!

 

The last two times rugby union was played at the Olympics in 1920 and 1924, the Americans won gold.

American football (and Canadian football) came about for the same reason rugby league came about, it's a code split. Ours was just dictated by distance from Britain instead of enforced amateurism rules.

As for baseball, I wasn't aware the British had a national rounders team. But we used to be good at cricket (the reason our national leader is called a president is because George Washington said "if president is good enough to describe the head of a cricket club it's good enough to describe the leader of this country"). It only went away due to the snobbish arrogance of cricket clubs not embracing the masses and baseball was therefore followed by the working class which made that game far more popular while cricket never wanted to go beyond the upper-class, combined with when England, Australia, and South Africa founded the Imperial Cricket Conference they banned anyone not in the Commonwealth from being members to keep American influence out of the game, and these two things combined condemned the game here to its death.

And basketball was founded before netball was. In this here, netball is the American football and basketball is the rugby union.

But if you want to continue being ignorant, go ahead. It just demonstrates the general lack of intelligence of people on this board of all nationalities.