2012 Olympic Boxing Thread

**alex** · Posted On: 8/05/2012 7:14pm

so the scoring system, from what i can tell, involves picknig a random number between 1 and 15 and assigning that randomly to either blue or red? what the **** am i watching?

**itwasntme** · Posted On: 8/05/2012 8:04pm

I think the commentators called it correctly, Farce 2012.

**Zencreative** · Posted On: 8/06/2012 6:22am

So what is the problem ... incompetence, corruption or a flawed scoring system?

**lordbd** · Posted On: 8/06/2012 6:25am

Originally Posted by Zencreative

So what is the problem ... incompetence, corruption or a flawed scoring system?

Probably all of those things combined

**PointyShinyBurn** · Posted On: 8/06/2012 8:59am

Nicola Adams just tap-danced on a Bulgarian girl, amazing boxing from her.

**OZZ** · Posted On: 8/06/2012 9:24am

Originally Posted by It is Fake

Yeah, I stopped watching Olympic boxing years ago because of the scoring.

That 6(?) knock down 10-10 scoring fiasco made me remember why I no longer bother.

There's always some BS connected to Olympic Boxing , I think the worst was when Roy Jones was robbed of his gold medal in Seoul - by a South Korean, which is no surprise.
But
At least the IOC has dispensed with that stupid scoring system they had before where all the judges had to score a punch at the same time in order for it to count - that was fucking ridiculous.
I'm keeping an eye on Cam Clayton
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/combat-spo...tml?cid=rsstsn
And this guy - he could pull off an upset as well.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/london...lympic-athlete

**Zencreative** · Posted On: 8/09/2012 11:19am

So I'm still fairly perplexed by how exactly the scoring works, but I've pretty much agreed with the results of all the fights I've seen this far. Also, I was in the arena last night and it was a great atmosphere despite the home team loss.

So SPOILERS ...

No american men made it past the quarter finals! I think this is the first time there's not been a US medalist ...er .. ever.
The women are doing better though by winning a bronze.
Nicola Adams wins the first ever womens gold with a great display of boxing.
Katie Taylor wins gold too with less dominant performance.
Next up is a good old fashioned cold war match up of Russia vs USA.

**OZZ** · Posted On: 8/10/2012 9:56am

I'm sitting through stupid BMX racing waiting for the Boxing semi-finals to start...

**Zencreative** · Posted On: 8/10/2012 10:35am

So over here the BBC streams every event live. Do you not get the same from whoever's providing the coverage there? If there feed already exists it's seems a bit slack not to offer that these days.

**OZZ** · Posted On: 8/10/2012 10:44am

No..our coverage is lame.
They pick a 3hr time spot, for example, and schedule three events that are going to be featured and you just have to wait it out.
But I do get US coverage from NBC as well..so I usually have three or four channels with varying programming to choose from; one US channel and three or four Canadian one's.