I am writing this not only out of my very personal frustration with USA Boxing's Olympic Residency Program but also I think it is important that the record is set straight. The reason I am writing a letter at all is because while in Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games, I approached Jim Millman to speak to him personally about everything and his reaction was actually to turn his back to me and walk away without listening to one single word I had to say. This was the last act of complete disrespect and cowardice after a very long year of an entire team of the country's best boxers and their trainers receiving nothing but disrespect, arrogance and total ignorance of the sport of boxing from Dan Campbell and Jim Millman. To understand why the residency program, in the way it was built, was doomed from the start and why the athletes would have been 100 times more prepared by training primarily with their lifelong personal trainers, you have to understand where a boxer comes from. Without understanding where Javier and the other 10 Olympians truly came from, there is zero understanding of boxing and very little possibility of building a successful residency program now or in the future. But by taking the time to understand it, the future of American amateur boxing has no limit. http://fightbeat.com/news_details.php?NW=21822
Yeah that USB boxing scene sucks. If you won't change the thread title, perhaps at least fix it on the home page ::
