27th Southeast Asian Games

[darren_simion]

So Ive been watching it and its the first am tournament Ive seen where they arent wearing headgear. Its really weird watching it but you also get to see more of these 'cuties' get pounded and start running. Will they also be fighting without headgear in next Olympics?

[darren_simion]

The most evident of this is watching the cuties from non-traditional boxing nations like Singapore or Cambodia. Seeing their fighters literally panic as soon as they get hit shows what a huge difference this is. Countries like Philippines and Thailand is doing very well in this tourney. With Philippines already assured 8 medals.

I saw a Singaporean boxer get pounded by his THai opponent in the first few seconds and started running the whole round.

[mike222]

Five golds for Thailand,two for the Phillipines and a surprise one for Burma in the eight weights contested.Big shock in the Semis when Asian Games flyweight champion Rey Saludar lost to a Burmese boxer Maung Nge.Nge failed in his attempt at gold losing to tough Thai Chatchai Butdee in the final.
Golds
49 M Barriga PHI
52 C Butdee THA
56 M Fernandez PHI
60 S Ardee THA
64 W Masuk THA
69 A Sansit THA
75 Wai L Aung BUR
81 A Thongkrathok THA

[darren_simion]

The Indonesian women boxers were wearing skirts as well which was weird. I was hoping one of the got knocked down and gave their muslim leaders a shock to their morals.