The Olympic point system can blow me!

This system isnt the best ofcourse. But, usually the better fighters still come out on top, and the gold medal is usually awarded to the most deserving.

 

do the judges only score clean power shots?

 

Most pro boxing fans don't like amateur scoring because they don't understand what amateur boxing is. Basically amateur boxing is a (pure) sport and pro boxing is entertainment. So if you're into pro boxing for the "blood'n'guts" bull**** you will most likely not like amateur boxing. Amateur boxing highlights the technical aspect of the sport so lumberjacks like Sam Peter who couldn't through a clean straight punch if his life depended on it and still enjoys a somewhat successful pro career wouldn't score a point in amateur boxing no matter how many punches he throws. Only clean punches with the knuckle part of the glove (highlighted by the whtite area on the glove) to legal target areas score points.

 

It also almost totally neglects body punching(at least as far as scoring goes) which is a pretty important part of boxing, and that's from someone who enjoys the amateurs.

Also Sam Peter was an Olympian, clearly he did okay in the amateurs.

 

True. It was a nice surprise to see Degale get a point for a good body shot in his fight today.

 

did anyone feel egan was dropped by jackson today?


the scoring was crazy. jackson was landing some right hands on him (he wasnt winning but it was closer than it seemed). and then it was stopped. even though egan only landed a few more jabs than him.

 

Olympics is stupid. It's the best at an amateur level basically..

 

What's the U.S. look like sofar?
Have we fought yet?

 

Shawn Estrada won 8-2 against Ezequiel Maderna of Argentina at Middleweight.

America has no Light-Heavyweight so there won't be another American fighting till tomorrow.

 

Yeah and righfully so based on the scoring system. You may not agree with that but it's perfectly correct according to the scoring system, because like already mentioned, a punch isn't a scoring punch just because he touched the opponent. There are other conditions.

No, he didn't, you obviously didn't see his fights at the Olympics, it was horrible, watch the Vidoz fight. And what's that got to do with anything anyway? Beiing an Olympian doesn't mean you are actually on of the best amateur boxers in the world it only mean you are one of the best of a certain region. Most of the guys from Africa, Oceania, South America going to the Olympics because of continental quotas wouldn't have a shot at qualifiing in a tougher region and on the other hand guys from those regions (Cubans, Eastern European) who would easily beat those "Olympians" can't go because they are only the 2nd best guy in their country.

 

Clean accurate punches with appropriate force landing with the white part of the glove to the torso are meant to be scored, in general they are not. That is a technical flaw imo

Peter did qualify through a weaker region than the European fighters but you said he wouldn't be able to score a single point in amateur boxing. He infact managed to score 17 of them while beating Romaian Konstantina Onofrei who qualified through the European region........

Yes he did lose 14-3 to Vidoz in the quarter-finals.........wait that's another 3 points and against a top amateur.

That was only Peters' second loss as an amateur, the other was a close loss to Harrison.

He also knocked out Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov a former World and Olympic Silver medalist, I'm guessing it was a scoring punch that did it.

Seems Peter did pretty well for himself in the amateurs for someone who is unable to score a point.