McCracken has licence revoked

[jizzle]

Too many people on the IOC who HATE boxing, you'll be lucky to see boxing in the olympics in 30 years from now. And then the AIBA can disappear into a puddle of shit.

Any chance of a source or just a hunch? Find that nigh on impossible to believe given that boxing was one of the founding sports for the Olympics.

[Coco]

Cutting weight categories already dilutes things

[charlieb]

This has to be a joke, surely they couldn't possibly be that self-destructive... on our fu*king dime!

[dbf]

What you have to realise is AIBA have a very strained relationship with the ABAE. The ABAE's former CEO tried to usurp CK Wu unsuccessfully and the rammifications were that King stepped down. However the wider implications are that AIBA are now out for the ABAE and it appears will stop at nothing.

There is a bit of a grey area here in that Robert McCracken has never done an amateur coaching qualification, and therefore, by the ABAE's own rules should not be inside second to any am boxer. There was much dissapointment in the Amateur world when a pro trainer was given the top job in amateur boxing having never coached an amateur!

I'm not questioning McCrackens credentials or skills, its just that there is a clear system in place for amateur coaches that seemed to be unfairly bipassed.

True what Stu Jones says, most amateur coaches don't follow the pro game, mainly because they probably don't have the time!

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Too many people on the IOC who HATE boxing, you'll be lucky to see boxing in the olympics in 30 years from now. And then the AIBA can disappear into a puddle of shit.

Any chance of a source or just a hunch? Find that nigh on impossible to believe given that boxing was one of the founding sports for the Olympics.

Boxing wasn't a founding sport of the olympics and the AIBA and their corrupt officialdom have embarrassed the IOC for too long, as Coco said about binning half of the weight classes in favour of women's boxing - it is based on an educated hunch but it doesn't take much to see the dogs are barking and boxing as an olympic sport days are numbered.

[palooka]

What you have to realise is AIBA have a very strained relationship with the ABAE. The ABAE's former CEO tried to usurp Wu

That is it, no one effs with the Tang Clan and gets away with it, these people have gone too far.

Just read that all McCracken has to do to get his role back is dump world title holder Carl Froch ahead of Froch's tough test against Johnson and miss out on the Super Six final with Andre Ward (come on, we all know it is going to be Ward-Froch). That sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Yeah and me what a set of racketeers

[big lennox]

What a bunch of numpties.The whole amateur set up is a joke.A proper joke.This is just one of the many reasons that the good prospects turn pro early.

As if they din't know before, during and after his interview that he was also a professional coach.Well, they have shot themselves in the foot, big time here.

[dbf]

I think the point is it was never declared to AIBA that McCracken was a pro trainer. The ABAE/BABA were well aware that McCracken was a pro trainer but didn't notify AIBA presumably for this very reason (he wouldn't have been licensed).

[jonp]

Its turned out he would have been licenced as the rule was only brought in a few weeks ago .Sounds like someones been set up here

[stujones]

Rediculous that they do this, but still support the WSB which offers a closer resembles to proffesional boxing as we traditionally view it than Prizefighter. Its a completely different sport to the amateur code.

[IRLangmaid25]

For me this decision that the IABA has made in my opinion at best looks completely farcial or at worse it just stinks completely Because it would only need to take a 5 minute search on Google to find out that Robert McCracken is actively engaged in the paid ranks in training Carl Froch ever since Froch joined the paid ranks back in 2002/03 after he won the Commonwealth gold medal in Manchester, since and won the Commonwealth Super-Middle title and won the Lonsdale Belt outright on en route to taking the WBC 12 stone belt. Surely if they did their research surely the AIBA would have said something early about McCracken's professional work since he was appointed GB Performance Director, and it is that success he has had with Froch on world level combined with Lenny Daws and and John McDonnell has made McCracken one of the most well regarded trainers in the country which got him the job as Performance Director. So it feels to me it was made on the quick.

[dbf]

AIBA are trying to get at the ABAE but it is concieveable they didn't know McCracken was a pro trainer. Froch isn't a world name, outside of the pro fans and McCracken certainly isn't either.

Froch turned pro before the 2002 commonwealths after winning bronze in the 2001 worlds.

[big lennox]

I'd like to think that the people who interviewed McCracken for his post would have been well aware of his pedigree as a fighter and trainer.Something is very rotten in Denmark here, and Rob McCracken has been treated awfully.AIBA sounds like a tin pot organisation, and their behaviour in this instance stinks.God only knows why they have introduced this rule and compromised a coach who is doing a superb job for amateur boxers (& the pro ones).

[Atom Bomb]

Looking at the responses here it looks like the mass majority of boxing fans think this is a load of crap.

Has someone started a pettition or anything?