Olympic Boxing

[TexanWolv]

I'm sick of it.

I used to enjoy Olympic Boxing so much and not just because the USA was so good (I'll touch on that in a minute here). I simply hate the scoring now and I hate that I almost get to the point of outrage every day when watching the coverage.

Now...About the USA.

First is that I do believe that there is a bias against either the USA or the style of USA fighters. The USA only gets one ref for such a large area and wide array of people while there are so many refs from Europe. If refs judge their style better than ours then we are inherently fighting an uphill battle because we don't fight the kind of style that so many of the judges appreciate. I realize that Cuba doing so well does present a problem to my argument however these Cubans are seasoned fighters and have more experience fighting internationally and know what to do before European judges.

Secondly though is that I think Pro Boxing has ruined boxing in the USA. I havent followed professional boxing for years now. It started with never being able to see the fights because of ridiculous pay-per-view prices that carried the risk of lasting only a few minutes for the main event. Now because people are seeing less and less of boxing on TV the public simply doesnt even know the personalities of boxers and therefore has no rooting interest even if it's on TV.

USA Boxing is a shell of it's former self and I find that very depressing because we have such a proud tradition in the sport.

 

[2003TexasGrad]

I watched a couple of fights today, and it was even boxing. The American and French fighter were grappling and hugging eachother for half the fight and the ref didnt really do anything about it. Both fighters also landed a lot of punches that werent scored at all.

I thought both matches were God awful.

 

[SlingeroGuitaro]

i dont know, i enjoy watching it. its way funner if you imagine everyone looking like this guy

 

[LongestHorn]

This is the worst US olympic boxing ever. Worse than the 1948 team, widely recognized as the worst US team before this team.

I'm disgusted by it.

What the hell?

 

[badexcuse]

Used to be some epic US vs Cuba boxing matches. Remember the heavyweight Stevenson from Cuba who was so good?

 

[accuratehorn]

I only watch boxing in the Olympics, but this time it is practically unwatchable. I haven't seen anything worth watching. Maybe it is time to pull the plug on this sport.

 

[Montag]

The scoring, judging and reffing have turned boxing from one of my favorite things about the olympics into an effing joke. it's unwatchable.

In the last fight with the American heavyweight, he landed several nice jabs, no score. his opponent landed what amounted to a slap (with the palm of his hand) and it was scored, even though no part of the part portion of his glove touched the American. It's just ******.