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I got tickets for lasrt night of boxing!

Artofwar it's not just a fact, I understand there might be better number 2's and 3's from some countries, but you still have to qualify, if not there would be 11 boxers from Thailand.
Any single boxer who qualifies for the Olympics is a top class amateur. Fact
If you disagree list the ones who are not ?

jessi wrote:Artofwar it's not just a fact, I understand there might be better number 2's and 3's from some countries, but you still have to qualify, if not there would be 11 boxers from Thailand.
Any single boxer who qualifies for the Olympics is a top class amateur. Fact
If you disagree list the ones who are not ?

Yes you have to qualify, but not from a pool of every amateur in the world. Sure the fighters who qualify from the major amateur tournaments are normally very good, but the guy's who qualify from regional events in their part of the world often times are not up to par. They've qualified by beating opponants who are also not up to much. The guy Darren O'Neill beat yesterday is one such example.

It's not about listing names either, just watch the tournament. Watching Olympic boxing it is plain to see that a lot of boxers aren't really all that great, especially in the early rounds.

Hows things gone today?

Been in work allday so havent had chance to have a look

saturday_kid wrote:Hows things gone today?

Been in work allday so havent had chance to have a look

Nowt yet, GB wise.

Freddie Evans on in a bit (4.15) with Josh Taylor tonight (8.30).

ArtOfWar wrote:

jessi wrote:Artofwar it's not just a fact, I understand there might be better number 2's and 3's from some countries, but you still have to qualify, if not there would be 11 boxers from Thailand.
Any single boxer who qualifies for the Olympics is a top class amateur. Fact
If you disagree list the ones who are not ?

Yes you have to qualify, but not from a pool of every amateur in the world. Sure the fighters who qualify from the major amateur tournaments are normally very good, but the guy's who qualify from regional events in their part of the world often times are not up to par. They've qualified by beating opponants who are also not up to much. The guy Darren O'Neill beat yesterday is one such example.

It's not about listing names either, just watch the tournament. Watching Olympic boxing it is plain to see that a lot of boxers aren't really all that great, especially in the early rounds.

I've watched probably every final since Seoul 88, and about 50% of first round bouts in the last 6 olympics, there's not that many stoppages overall, I know where your coming from but think the standard all over the world gets better each olympics !

anyone else having problems with red button coverage on BBC? i can't get the boxing

Old bones Ian wrote:anyone else having problems with red button coverage on BBC? i can't get the boxing

Go across to a-b press select then down to boxing

Evans doing well, Josh Taylor has a very tough bout against the Brazilian tonight.

Evans wins 18-10, 3 out of 3 through to last 16 from GB

jessi wrote:

Old bones Ian wrote:anyone else having problems with red button coverage on BBC? i can't get the boxing

Go across to a-b press select then down to boxing

Cheers, i've been trying that, got freesat and it just comes up with no-signal and the bbc logo thing telling me to press the red button. I get most of the others but it seems the ones from Excel i can't get

jessi wrote:Evans wins 18-10, 3 out of 3 through to last 16 from GB

Agogo and Evans? Who's the 3rd?

How did Evans look?

Old bones Ian wrote:

jessi wrote:

Old bones Ian wrote:anyone else having problems with red button coverage on BBC? i can't get the boxing

Go across to a-b press select then down to boxing

Cheers, i've been trying that, got freesat and it just comes up with no-signal and the bbc logo thing telling me to press the red button. I get most of the others but it seems the ones from Excel i can't get

Ok, didn't mean to state the obvious earlier, yesterday it was one of the main options but today I had to search for it, also try BBC I player, apparently every single moment from the Olympics is in there somewhere. Try to figure something out before 8:30pm, Josh Taylor is boxing the Brazilian guy who is mustard !

saturday_kid wrote:

jessi wrote:Evans wins 18-10, 3 out of 3 through to last 16 from GB

Agogo and Evans? Who's the 3rd?

How did Evans look?

Luke Campbell got a bye, I know it's not the same but that's still 3 from 3 weight divisions so far.
Evans looked good, great corkscrew upper cuts, he took a few himself though, the Algerian was quite impressive for a 19 year old !

jessi wrote:

saturday_kid wrote:

jessi wrote:Evans wins 18-10, 3 out of 3 through to last 16 from GB

Agogo and Evans? Who's the 3rd?

How did Evans look?

Luke Campbell got a bye, I know it's not the same but that's still 3 from 3 weight divisions so far.
Evans looked good, great corkscrew upper cuts, he took a few himself though, the Algerian was quite impressive for a 19 year old !

Ahh yeah get ya thoguht I'd missed something then.

Cheers mate, gonna catch up with it when I finish work

Cheers, i've been trying that, got freesat and it just comes up with no-signal and the bbc logo thing telling me to press the red button. I get most of the others but it seems the ones from Excel i can't get[/quote]Ok, didn't mean to state the obvious earlier, yesterday it was one of the main options but today I had to search for it, also try BBC I player, apparently every single moment from the Olympics is in there somewhere. Try to figure something out before 8:30pm, Josh Taylor is boxing the Brazilian guy who is mustard ![/quote]

thanks, i've googled the problem, and apparently its a problem for quite a few with Freesat, so i'm retuning my box for the other satellite settings, and hopefully this will give me all the BBC channels, just means mucking around with channel settings. Can't really complain as usually we get 30 mins of boxing at the end of a program, instead of this full coverage. I'll get sorted by 8.30

Good start for Team GB.

Taylor wins as well, i had it closer than the judges

Taylor just beat the Brazillian 13-9.

4 out of 4 through now 8)

Irish boy through although I am not sure how the judges gave him the last round.

Nevermind 4 through. All 7 lads are through to the last 16. 4 got bye's and 3 have won there last 32 bouts.

broomy7s wrote:Nevermind 4 through. All 7 lads are through to the last 16. 4 got bye's and 3 have won there last 32 bouts.

Amazing progress since 2004 when a lonely single boxer went to athens. The set up looked superb on ringside the other night. Thumbs up to all involved.

yiddo14 wrote:

jessi wrote:

yiddo14 wrote:Joshua can make an early statement with his match up. I think he will stop Savon.

Hope your right, think his on Wednesday !

I have only seen Savon in the worlds last year and it seemed like he could be thrown off his gameplan if the opponent comes in aggressive. If big Joshua can let it all hang out I think the Cuban will fold.

I was wondering if it was his name and fathers influence that got him there is he that good, best cuba has? Wouldnt be a huge surprise if there was some poor sod that was better but overlooked.

At the mo Savon is probably the best super heavy Cuba have, they have more talent at heavy

I'm going tonight, unfortunately no British boxers. Anyone who knows a bit more about the amateur scene than me know any in particular to keep an eye out for?