So much for USA boxing

[TitoFan]

Hey ez..... welcome to the forum. I've been following the boxing myself, mostly rooting for the Puerto Rican fighters. Sadly, the last one was eliminated today also, although the best two had been eliminated earlier (Jantony Ortiz and Felix Verdejo). But on the U.S. boxing, I've heard more than one commentary about how this year's team was weak. Don't know what's causing the decline, but there's many theories. It'll probably bounce back in the next games, but it's gonna take some concerted efforts to make it happen. And regarding the judging, it's been downright horrible. I thought the pros were bad... these Olympic judges have made some frightful mistakes. There's been at least two overturned decisions that I know of.

On a side note... you're the first new saddo'er I've seen with an E-mail address for a name.

[ez396979@yahoo.com]

thanks for the reply, this place has been kinda dead recently. Anyway, im not new to this site, Ive been visiting it weekly for a couple of years now i just made a new username today because i cant remember the password for my old one (bigge233).


I caught Jantony Ortiz's first fight and was blown away by the kids skill. I didnt follow up on him though and im surprised to hear that he lost.

Anyway i hope it does bounce back but at this rate it doesn't look good. In 2008 i felt like we had a chance at gold with Russell Jr. but he had a mishaps which resulted in him not fighting at all.

As for my opinion on the decline, i feel as if interesting in the sport as a whole is declining and that is hurting team USA. Things such as bad decisions, greedy promoters, mismanagement of fighters, other sports such as UFC coming up, and a few other things i cant remember at the moment have killed peoples interests in the sport and team USA's boxing team reflects that.

Anyway, im happy to be back in the suddoboxiing community and ill try to get more involved in the forums than i have in the past. I could talk boxing all day, lol