BoxRec

tuaman2004 wrote:Irelands only Boxing entry in the Olympics has his first fight @ 4:30 today
against a Mexican called Delgado

Saw him interviewed on Grandstand a few months back. He seems like a nice guy - Good Luck!

Don't you mean Andy Lee?

Lee's looking pretty good.

Yeah, Lee looked useful. The Mexican was no mug.

I remember the Russian Euro champ beat him pretty easily last time out. Lee didn't fight as well as he fought that Mexican though so maybe he's improved.

Amateur expert Daniel Herbert tells me the middleweight division at the games is the strongest, most fiercely-competitive.

I think it's Middleweight where my main men Saitov and Khairov are competing in, if so then Lee will have a battle on his hands, Saitov is shit hot.

good performance by lee. i was quite impressed by his ability to jab whilst moving backwards. couple of careless moments when he let his concentration go but the irish guy done very well.

one thing puzzled me. i recall there used to be a rule where if one of the fighters was a certain amount of points ahead, i seem to think it was 15, then the fight was stopped on the 'outclassed' rule, has this been scrapped? lee was ahead by 15 points on a couple of occasions

and isnt it fantasitic to have jim mcneilly back? :(

neil r wrote:and isnt it fantasitic to have jim mcneilly back? :(

Groan...why can't the Olympics have a Rubgy tournament :(

I think it's 20 points now (not 15)

I was impressed. He looked sharp, and slick enough to keep the mexican at bay for most of the fight. Bit worried that he dropped his hands and got a little careless several times, if the Russian is as good as his reputation suggests then that kind of concentration lapse will cost him. Looks like a decent little fighter though.

Matchfixer wrote:I think it's 20 points now (not 15)

The commentator on BBC interactive showings of the boxing said it was 15.

DK2112 wrote:

Matchfixer wrote:I think it's 20 points now (not 15)

The commentator on BBC interactive showings of the boxing said it was 15.

I stand corrected. The offical olympics site's boxing section says 15 too.

It is 20 points. Several fighters today have had a 15 point lead in the 3rd round without the fight being stopped.

bennie wrote:Amateur expert Daniel Herbert

That's an oxymoron.

It is definitely 20 points for a stoppage too, 15 stopped ages ago. 20 points ahead = stoppage in any round bar the last.

steve689 wrote:

neil r wrote:and isnt it fantasitic to have jim mcneilly back? :(

Groan...why can't the Olympics have a Rubgy tournament :(

Just to make it clear. The guy is called Jim Neilly. Don't drag my surname through the mud, please!