Am I the only one who thinks Olympic Boxing Scoring is beyond pathetic?

[holmcall]

Olympic boxing scoring has always been pathetic joke IMO and always will be, unless and untill they put hi-tech sensors inside the gloves and let a supercomputer do the COMPUTING.

How could the Aussie kid rock the Cuban which results in the Cuban getting a standing 8- count, but the Aussie geting no points? Say what?

The judges stink out the place to the point where I will no longer watch this crock of crap.

[killersheep]

Olympic boxing scoring has always been pathetic joke IMO and always will be, unless and untill they put hi-tech sensors inside the gloves and let a supercomputer do the COMPUTING.

How could the Aussie kid rock the Cuban which results in the Cuban getting a standing 8- count, but the Aussie geting no points? Say what?

The judges stink out the place to the point where I will no longer watch this crock of crap.

Heavy emphasis has been placed on contact, not impact, although I agree the judging has been crap.

[Scrap]

Its polotics simple as.

[wesrman]

Boxing officials seem to do everything possible to ruin the sport. Anything they can do wrong (pro or amateur) they do.

[Scott22]

the scoring is really bad

[Kev]

I've only watched a couple fights and that was enough.

It's completely shit, according the fights I saw only 5 punches were landed in each.

I hate Olympic boxing, it's the Eurovision Song Contest of sport.

Winning a medal at it means virtually nothing nowadays, it's just a matter of who the judges want to put through it seems.

You may as well roll dice to see who gets the medals, ability has virtually nothing to with it.

Frankie Gavin got off lightly, now he can put any thoughts of wasting another 4 years for the London Olympics and start making some real money and having a proper career in the pro's.

[Markusdarkus]

Needs 3 judges cant be hard to find.

[Chris Nagel]

What was Olympic Boxing like years ago?

[CutMeMick]

I gotta say it's sucked.

[jmbtandy]

I think the same, I tune in every day at 5pm to watch the fights and usually last 1 fight, most of which I spend spotting punches that land and are not scored and mocking cuffs that are. It is so frustrating and must be a nightmare for the guys in there, just look at the scores in some bouts are they telling us that on most occasions in 4 rounds only 1 or 2 scoring shots are landed either the defence is amazing or the scoring is a load of crap, mmm wonder which that is. Some of these guys dreams are being ripped up in front of them.

The scoring is also forcing the styles between amateur and professional further apart making it even more difficult to make the transition. Sure amateur boxing is the building section of most boxers career as they progress to professional it is making it a joke and you might as well forget it and do it the way Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has done it, bore people to tears while you learn your trade in the pro ring, you will have more 20 year olds with 20-30 fights.

All in this is not boxing yeah it's a ring with two guys in gloves but it ain't boxing.