That's a great post, BoomBoom, and I agree with every word of it.

I, like you, am a boxer...but I am an amatuer, and a young one who is still impressionable. Impressonable enough to know that I have observed this game closely enough for the last year or so...and almost week in and week out, to be finding myself not wanting to in any way persue it beyond an amateur level.

I expected it to be better. The officiating, the judging, all parties concerned. But see it is not even coming close to having the integrity of the system I compete in now, or the competence. I mean, I Love this sport, but I don't feel any sort of trust towards it at the professional level.

It is all very discouraging. I don't really know what it needs, some sort of overhaul in governing body maybe? Some sort of hired external moral and competence auditors? What, what does it need? I know it needs something, and it needs it badly.

I don't know how anyone can watch these things going down, again and again, and be in mine or similar shoes and still dream of being there one day. Because for what? To have rug ripped out from under you by a system of corruption or incompetance? Urgh.