Boxing has 4 medals
Boxing has 4 medals
i dont get it. there are 4 boxers left in each divison now and they are guaranteed a medal. so does that mean 2 get the broze medal? why dont the losers fight of for that.?
if a boxer is stopped, he can't box again for 3 weeks (I think it's three, it might have changed to 4). So if one guy loses his semi-final on a stoppage they couldn't box off for another month, by which stage everyone would have gone home, and just because you lose your semi comprehensively doesn't mean you're any worse than a guy who loses a decision to another bloke, so because of this they can't schedule a 3rd / 4th place box-off, and award two bronzes...
True, but I am just passing on what I heard about this subject. Maybe the thinking is that it's fair enough to make the fighter go the extra yard for Gold/Silver but not Bronze?REAL_DEAL wrote:good pointneil r wrote:surely if the bronze medal fight was on the same day as the final then all four fighters would have the same amount of fights in the same timeKOJOE90 wrote:I think it has been done just to stop the fighters having to have an extra fight in such a short period of tim.
I may be wrong but don't some of the other 'combat' sports have 4 Medals as well? eg Judo.
Maybe it's also a Olympic 'timetable' issue as well? Just a thought.
In that case you could just award the bronze medal to the second semi finalist for not being stopped and if both get stopped then maybe a system where they add up both losing semi finalists point tally for the entire tournament and the highest gets the bronze.Coconut wrote:if a boxer is stopped, he can't box again for 3 weeks (I think it's three, it might have changed to 4). So if one guy loses his semi-final on a stoppage they couldn't box off for another month, by which stage everyone would have gone home, and just because you lose your semi comprehensively doesn't mean you're any worse than a guy who loses a decision to another bloke, so because of this they can't schedule a 3rd / 4th place box-off, and award two bronzes...
Not sure I agree.Cannibal wrote:In that case you could just award the bronze medal to the second semi finalist for not being stopped and if both get stopped then maybe a system where they add up both losing semi finalists point tally for the entire tournament and the highest gets the bronze.Coconut wrote:if a boxer is stopped, he can't box again for 3 weeks (I think it's three, it might have changed to 4). So if one guy loses his semi-final on a stoppage they couldn't box off for another month, by which stage everyone would have gone home, and just because you lose your semi comprehensively doesn't mean you're any worse than a guy who loses a decision to another bloke, so because of this they can't schedule a 3rd / 4th place box-off, and award two bronzes...
OK, let’s say Roberto Duran is in a semi final with Sugar Ray and loses on points.
In the other semi final, Marvin Hagler beats Tommy Hearns by KO in three.
The two losing semi-finalists awho would then have to box off are Duran and Hearns. Now, Hearns has been stopped, so he can’t box for a month. However, does this make Duran the winner? Nope. Nor does losing to the winner of the final: Duran lost to the winner there as well, so would this mean he would deserve a bronze over Hearns? We all know the result of that one…
I might be being a bit liberal with dates, but you get the impression.
Basically, there isn’t really a system to work it out fairly because styles make fights and because because boxing quite rightly doesn’t let you box for a while after taking a beating. This shenanigans might have started out of compassion or whatever, but there is a fundamental safety regulation which prevents a box-off nowadays.
Plus, like most people seem to think, it’s tough on a guy who got beat two days before to have to get up for a bronze medal box-off. No probs with two bronzes on emotional and a practical level.
