Until we win every single fucking gold, there will be issues with the scoring. Okay, I suppose we can settle for one gold so long as the american is knocked out cold. But what is the fix? As I listen to assfu*k Teddy Atlas and his kis*ass sidekicks (Papa right now) and his weekly (weakly) rant each week about how corrupt and terrible pro boxing judges are that surely can't be the answer, can it? Well, maybe if it results in our manly pro-style boxers having an advantage in amateur boxing...
What are you talking about? Around 50% of the decisions I've seen in these Olympics have been wrong. It's horrendous, even worse than pro boxing. Significantly so, actually.
Uuuuh, REED ALREADY Told "Us" Why he Thinks it's JUST, Dipshit...The QUALITY of Fights SUCK w/Open Scoring...Hell, REED Finds the 2012 Olympics MORE Enjoyable that the '08 Version BECAUSE the TV Viewer Is UNAWARE of the Score Until the Announcer REVEALS it @ the End of the Round... In '08, Rau'Shee Warren Probably Fucked HIMSELF Out of a Win BECAUSE he Mistakenly Thought he was AHEAD & Blatantly Took his Foot Off the Pedal...If Guys Stick to What GOT them the Lead in the 1st Fucking Place, they'd Be Better Off... If YOU Actually Prefer a Guy Taking a 1 Pt Lead THEN Converting a Boxing Match Into a Game of TAG or Hide & Seek, so Be It....Just More of the Contrarian BULLSHIT that Fightbeat Expects from U... REED:boohoo:
I like Richie Woodhall, he adds to any broadcast he's working on. The other two are just fine. The Irish commentator is just as partisan when an Irish boxer is in the ring, hollering when he lands a punch and staying very quiet as he gets landed on, otherwise "so-and-so finding himself ina spot of bother there..", "so-and-so getting caught there but showing his sturdy chin" etc. I find the UK comentators far more intolerable when it comes to track and field or rowing/cycling
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Videos like that allow you to see the crowd responding to positive moves by the home fighter, while still seeing the reality of what's happening. Johsua was always in it, but the Cuban...in it that bit more, and as have others have pointed out, he lost the third round badly.
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He got octopus coming out of his fuckin' ears, meng!! Wid the Russian shoe' that his feet comin' through.
Katie Taylor has a British opponent in her 1/4 final bout.......if you are looking for an outright robbery, this will be a good place to go looking. Taylor will probably have to stop her.
Womens boxing is an Olympic sport because of Katie .. But I was thinking that myself the o'l home decision .. lets hope it's all above board
Underwood would have had to have knocked out Jonas to win that. I genuinely expect Taylor to lose a decision.
If Taylor outboxes this girl and cannot get a look in on the scores, then I think we can safely progress from "Home Town" decisions to "Fixed" decisions on that basis. Right now, its 50-50. An outright robbery of the best fighter in that division would tip the balance for me from incompetence or favouritism to outright corruption. We shall see.
You're talking about shit that isn't happening. There aren't many fighters running to protect leads. Sure, there are some fighters who protect the lead, but so what? That's what you should do. Anyway, there's really no protecting a lead unless you are up by more than 3 points and it's just as common for big lead guys to expand upon the lead than it is for it to get closer.
At least half the Brits got gifts, the Jap got robbed, Spence got robbed, an Iranian got robbed, an Azerbaijani got robbed, and more. It's been awful.
I'm guessing there have been 150 men's bouts so far. They started out with 250 fighters and there are probably 100 left.
I said out of the bouts I've seen. I've seen around 20 and around 10 of them have been robberies. I've never gone through a spell of 20 pro fights, with half the decisions being wrong.
WOW...Teddy Atlas might be a twat...he knew the Belarus fighter was going to get rob...but he was talking it up like the system would get it right this time and award the victory to belarus ..no way the can steal it from this young man...then came the decision.....:Boo: OUTRAGE!!!