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

[denilson200]

I actually think, in many ways, it's harder to win an Olympic boxing gold than it is a World championship. With the Olympics your up against the best young hungry fighters in the whole world. Cuba etc and other fighters from the eastern bloc don't turn pro. In a way there is a purity about Olympic boxing that professional boxing lacks. They are not getting paid, they are there to represent there country.

To me Olympic boxing is like the Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard university of the noble art. If you can make it there you can make it anywhere You only need to look at past Olympics champions and past fighters that done well at the Olympics and then seeing how they fared in the pro ranks to realise that Olympic boxing is a brilliant starting point for any pro fighter.

I think this scoring system is the best out there rather than the old cloak and dagger (Hands in the cards at the end) scoring system of the past. With this system you ACTUALLY get to see what's going on. Besides when we are old and grey and you have your grand kids next to you, what do you think they would be more impressd by ? You telling them that you were a world boxing champion (But got beat later) or if you got your gold medal out and told them that you won this in the Bejing Olympics in 2008.

[Trainer Monkey]

I can awnser this one
Even though it isnt Olympic level,the gold medal I have from martial arts hanging in the gym does not impress my son one whit
The Toughman Championship Jacket his mom won impresses the hell out of him

[p4pking]

I can awnser this one
Even though it isnt Olympic level,the gold medal I have from martial arts hanging in the gym does not impress my son one whit
The Toughman Championship Jacket his mom won impresses the hell out of him

Ok?

[C.J.Rock]

Guys just sit down a minute and think. Why is the scoring method in olympic boxing so bad?? The answer is so easy.
The Olympic commitee could not trust the judges they assigned to render an honest, unbiased decision. Now isnt that a sad reflection of the world situation.
Whoever came up with the system used today must have spent all night at some bar first Its LUDICROUS!!!!!!!!
This all started with the horrendous decision loss handed to Roy Jones jr BUT If you look at Jones career the loss of olympic gold actually helped him. The whole world was behind him. PLus it gave him an excuse he used to the max all through his career .
I wont fight abroad I might get robbed again

[holmcall]

Guys just sit down a minute and think. Why is the scoring method in olympic boxing so bad?? The answer is so easy.
The Olympic commitee could not trust the judges they assigned to render an honest, unbiased decision. Now isnt that a sad reflection of the world situation.
Whoever came up with the system used today must have spent all night at some bar first Its LUDICROUS!!!!!!!!
This all started with the horrendous decision loss handed to Roy Jones jr BUT If you look at Jones career the loss of olympic gold actually helped him. The whole world was behind him. PLus it gave him an excuse he used to the max all through his career .
I wont fight abroad I might get robbed again

Ha, interesting stuff.

[C.J.Rock]

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I can awnser this one
Even though it isnt Olympic level,the gold medal I have from martial arts hanging in the gym does not impress my son one whit
The Toughman Championship Jacket his mom won impresses the hell out of him

I should think so if his Mom won a tough MAN contest jacket
Wow !!! what a lady

[Mar]

Just my opinion but oympic boxing is horrible it is far from showing who the best boxer is basically it the best tapper and runner. Most landing punches don't get counted and it is almost a bad thing if you are a puncher and actually attmept to hurt your opponet cause it's the tapper runner who wins not the best boxer. I am forced to keep up with is cause of my love for the sport and because when ever it's on i get a million calls tellin me so.......

[Lance Uppercut]

I actually think, in many ways, it's harder to win an Olympic boxing gold than it is a World championship.

Definitely, there is only 1 Gold medal per weight class. Look at professional boxing you can have up to 10 recognized World Champions per division.

The Ring Magazine
WBA Super
WBA Regular
WBA interim
WBC
WBC interim
IBF
IBF interim
WBO
WBO interim

[killersheep]

I actually think, in many ways, it's harder to win an Olympic boxing gold than it is a World championship.

Definitely, there is only 1 Gold medal per weight class. Look at professional boxing you can have up to 10 recognized World Champions per division.

The Ring Magazine
WBA Super
WBA Regular
WBA interim
WBC
WBC interim
IBF
IBF interim
WBO
WBO interim

What about the WBC Emeritis?

[yvonne]

What would solve the problem here would be for the judges to wear clkear glasses.I mean some of the clean flush shots that dont get counted are soo obvious that it miffs me to see that there dont get counted.Im really looking forward to watch my man "Price" get a medal i just hope the judges dont spoil his changes!!

[jmbtandy]

The problem is that all the judges have different angles the rules stipulate that you have to see the punch lands cleanly with the correct part of the glove, and no be blocked in anyway. Then you have to hit the right colour button within a second of all the other judges. A natural reaction to hit the button from seeing a punch will probably take about 0.5 secs, then when you bring the thought process into it you are probably adding another 0.5 secs, therefore anything over that is not scored. then you have got 5 judges 3 out of the five have to hit the button within the 1 second. If you look at the ages of some of the judges they will probably have problems hitting the button in a second anyway, no wonder the scoring is so bad.

[holmcall]

Glad to see the blokes are in agreement.

[Kev]

Honestly Olympic boxing is so shit they may as well remove it from the Olympics altogether.

You can no more win the Olympics in boxing on merit than you can win the Eurovision song contest on merit.

It's all down to the whim of the judges.

I've stopped watching it altogether and will just stick to the athletics which they can't fuck up with bullshit interperations and scoring methods.

[Andre]

What would solve the problem here would be for the judges to wear clkear glasses.I mean some of the clean flush shots that dont get counted are soo obvious that it miffs me to see that there dont get counted.Im really looking forward to watch my man "Price" get a medal i just hope the judges dont spoil his changes!!

All the judges need is a helmet with wires attached so they get 240 volts if they dont press a button when the other judges do!
and the reverse when they press it alone .
Oh ok then ,just make it 220 .

Seriously though a few volts would help but They also need monitors in front of their faces so that they can look at the screen when the ref or the other fighter is in the way of the action as happens with at least one judge in each combo.

[killersheep]

What would solve the problem here would be for the judges to wear clkear glasses.I mean some of the clean flush shots that dont get counted are soo obvious that it miffs me to see that there dont get counted.Im really looking forward to watch my man "Price" get a medal i just hope the judges dont spoil his changes!!

All the judges need is a helmet with wires attached so they get 240 volts if they dont press a button when the other judges do!
and the reverse when they press it alone .
Oh ok then ,just make it 220 .

Seriously though a few volts would help but They also need monitors in front of their faces so that they can look at the screen when the ref or the other fighter is in the way of the action as happens with at least one judge in each combo.

I was thinking perspective is a big problem especially when they are close.