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

[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.

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[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.

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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.

[HOMETOWN CHAMP]

olympic scoreing is way beyond pathetic

[SweetPea]

It's a bad scoring system, and the judges are making it even worse by making bad use of the system.

Boxing is not about punch-counting, especially when the punch-counting system ignores jabs and body shots.

[Chino]

Yesterday I was watching England vs Cuba (forgot the weight) and the English guy landed a clear body punch with great form just like a J.C. Chavez body punch where you can even hear the sound and guess what, CERO POINT! What the hell?! There are some clear punches I didn’t see anyone getting points on other fights.

[jmbtandy]

Yesterday I was watching England vs Cuba (forgot the weight) and the English guy landed a clear body punch with great form just like a J.C. Chavez body punch where you can even hear the sound and guess what, CERO POINT! What the hell?! There are some clear punches I didn’t see anyone getting points on other fights.

I haven't seen a body shot score a point yet, I have not watched all the fights but have seen some decent ones dug in but they never seem to score. Seems to be an ongoing thing with amateur boxing.

[Plopeater]

Yesterday I was watching England vs Cuba (forgot the weight) and the English guy landed a clear body punch with great form just like a J.C. Chavez body punch where you can even hear the sound and guess what, CERO POINT! What the hell?! There are some clear punches I didn’t see anyone getting points on other fights.

I haven't seen a body shot score a point yet, I have not watched all the fights but have seen some decent ones dug in but they never seem to score. Seems to be an ongoing thing with amateur boxing.

Same here, maybe they're blind to body shots or just retarded

[killersheep]

Yesterday I was watching England vs Cuba (forgot the weight) and the English guy landed a clear body punch with great form just like a J.C. Chavez body punch where you can even hear the sound and guess what, CERO POINT! What the hell?! There are some clear punches I didn’t see anyone getting points on other fights.

Yeah I've seen guys get their heads snapped back and staggered and still no point, also I've see people get points for cerrar.

[holmcall]

It's all up to Wilder now. Good God.