olympic scoring sucks

lomanchenko fight is on now

damn lomanchenko beat that frenchy down

 

Lomachenko is a special talent, certainly the best I've seen in these Olympics.

At 20 with 200 amateur fights and this performance, he appears ready to turn pro.

It looks like the NBC coverage is going to end without showing the Chakhiev-Russo fight. Might not be much of a loss there. ::

Edit: I think Telemundo is airing it right now.

 

Chenko is without a doubt the one fighter I've seen that made me think without a doubt - he'd be a force as a pro.

 

Looks like he can really crack. How he turned around that 1-5 deficit against the world champion into a 10-5 lead with his power and speed was spectacular. Can´t see lots of flaws. Speed, power, footwork, defense, stiff jab, maybe a bit wide with his shots occasionally. Seems to be a total package though.

 

olympic boxing sucks

 

thanks Mitchell you're the man

 

Which fight was that? I'll download it.

I actually thought his punches were pretty compact for an amateur, not that wide. But - I have only seen his annihiliation of the French guy. Somehow I managed to miss all his other fights, even though I am pretty sure BBC aired most of the boxing.

He sure does seem like the full package, when he turns pro I guess we'll have to wait and see how his chin and stamina stack up.

You have to admit, compared to the amateurs, they are often 2 fairly defining factors in the pro ranks. I guess a good example of that is Margarito - Cotto.

Also - I can't wait to see what chenko can do with 8oz gloves and no headgear, I bet he gets some pretty nice KO's.

 

First round against Selimov, which was a rematch of the 2007 world championships final. He also had a nice quarteerfinal bout against Sultonov, a world and olympic medalist, who he dropped on his butt in the 4th round. But the most ridiculous part of the fight was the 2 point punishment for holding. Sultonov didn´t even hold much, but that chinese bitch of a light-heavyweight, who holds 10 minutes of each 8 minute fight never gets a points penalty. I didin´t even know they existed in boxing till that fight.

 

Fixed.

 

Shiming is a bum. I wonder whether they´ll have the audacity to give him the Val Barker on top of the robbery they are about to hand out. LOL now they stopped the fight, and the mongolian, who should have been up 2-0 acts like he has a shoulder injury. Probably got his parents a nice house from the chinese government for it.

 

Fixed.

 

Awesome. Cammarelle knocked out the chinese bum to win the last gold medal of the Olympics. Unfortunately that disgraceful John Ruiz worshipper from China "won" the light-heavyweight gold.

 

Word. The Colobian guy was the only one who actually gave Cammarelle some trouble, this China man and Price got handled easily. the Russian guy, Timurzwhatever might have given him a fight but Price got lcky against him.

Cammarelle as a pro would be about the level of Chagaev or Sultan

 

lomanchenko was great. hopefully he'll have a better pro career than some of his other compatriots.

 

damn, when was the last time a cuban didnt win a gold (aside from the 84 olympics)?

 

'88,when there was another boycott:kick:::

Of the games where they have participated, I have no idea. Must be a while

 

Did anyone see the Sow fight? I thought he would win.

 

I saw it, it was among the better bouts of the games. skilful boxing throughout. There were scoring errors like in amateur fights there always are but I think the decision was fair. Tischenko fought well and too advantage of the openings he got. Sow might have a bright future ahea though, he was nice to watch

 

Hmmmm. He´s from the Ukraine. Klitschko brothers, Dzinziruk, Sidorenko, Kotelnik. I can´t even think of an ukrainian amateur medalist, that actually turned pro and didn´t win a world title. Mazikin is probably the only one, and you could tell very early, that he lacks the skill and work ethic. :dunno:

 

something must be very wrong when a mongol, a chinese and a fucken italian win gold at some boxing tournament comprised of teams from the best boxing countries in the whole world. I say, eliminate the fucking headgear in the olympics and judge the fights by the same pro rules. otherwise, boxing will be gone from the olympics because sadly nobody will give a shite anymore about it. BTW, why isn't there a mexican boxing olympic team???

 

really enjoyed this thread guys, reading thru while watching (most) the olympic matches was exccellent stuff.

I hope Taureano Johnson can make it as a pro, i liked him a lot. Lomanchencko seems like he should win best boxer, i have a suspicion it goes to Shiming tho. Good call whoever said that the Mongolian opponent probably has a house that was bought for his family by the Chinese government haha. Also thought that Egan should have won his match... not just saying that because I am half Irish....

 

It is not about headgears nor making it like proboxing, the same countries would dominate now. Why? Because they train like professionals while US guys are there practicing tobe pros. You can't be competitive in Olympics by practicing anymore.

That is why: let the pros enter the competition and see who really is the best in the world under these rules

 

Gainer, Raheem, Ruiz....

 

If so, then so be it.

Do you think the Italian heavyweight guy would have beaten David Haye? Or would Floyd Mayweather have lost to someone here?

 

I guess NBC only showed a few of the finals...which, for whatever reason, happened to be all the ones with Chinese fighters involved (Shiming-Purevdorj, Zhang-Egan, Cammarelle-Zhang).

It's a shame the boxing coverage moves off of CNBC, where they've been giving the sport pretty damn extensive coverage the entire Olympics, for the gold medal bouts, and move it to NBC where they're cramped for time and only show a few bouts.

I think Lomachenko, Cammarelle and Tishchenko would probably be the top 3 gold medalists for the Olympics in terms of establishing themselves against their competition.

Overall, lightweight looked like the best weight class in terms of talent, IMO, and the worst might have been heavyweight.

 

go figure man - CNBC cuts off FINANCIAL NEWS during the weekdays in order to show olympic boxing, pretty good coverage too.

but when the GOLD medal rounds come up and it is the WEEKEND (no financial news) cnbc doesnt cover any of it, and we get less comprehenisve coverage as a result on NBC with a bulk schedule that spans 6 hours with 10 different sports listed on the guide..... its crazy

 

cammarelle seems like he could do some damage in that weak ass division.

 

So did Chagaev who actually was more impressive back in his best days. Alexander Povetkin beat Cammarelle in last Olympics and he hasn't taken over the division and Audley Harrison who dominated in 2000 wasn't exactly legend calibre either. So perhaps the division isn't as weak after all or maybe they all just stop training after taking headgears offopcorn:

 

i also noticed the pope is religious


good work guys

 

1968 is the answer you and joony were/are looking for. Boxingscene readers were privy to this info thanks to two hacks providing non-stop coverage :bears:

Still, I find it funny that Team Cuba picking up 8 medals is considered a letdown since none were Gold, yet Americans were enthusiastically optmistic in predicting 2 or 3 medals. ::