Olympic Boxing

Skeeter · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:35

Wowzers!

TurnipHead · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:35

Get in there my son!

Pigeon_Killer · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:35

Holy ****, what a last round. He's done it

mollymoo · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:35

Awesome

fozzybear · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:35

Get in there Anthony Joshua!!

NZB · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:35

Go on son!

mollymoo · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:35

Best fight I've seen so far.

mithrandir · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:35

Didn't think he would do it after two rounds, but wow, 18 points a piece.

mp3duck · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:37

I wasn't sure how Count Back worked, so Googled:

When there's a tie all of the scores from all of the judges are added up to determine the winner.

Skeeter · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:37

mithrandir said:
Didn't think he would do it after two rounds, but wow, 18 points a piece.

I think the count back showed that the 2nd rounds scoring might have been a bit off.

Moothead2 · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:37

When it's revealed it's 18-18 it much feel incredible the second your hands starts being raised.

robfosters · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:53

Great moment for Joshua. Italian corner weren't at all happy!

bingham67 · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:53

Italian camp are appealing

Moothead2 · 12 Aug 2012 at 15:54

Oh god, then tension of having an appeal

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Caseh · 12 Aug 2012 at 16:00

I don't know what's more annoying.. Italians appealing or Khan constantly interrupting Lewis. :mad:

NZB · 12 Aug 2012 at 16:05

No change

Curiousalien · 12 Aug 2012 at 19:02

Hey, I've never really watched boxing, the guy won today on count back. Can someone explain what it is? Is it who was ahead at the end of the last round? who won the last point? what?

I've had a quick google but nothing explains it.

thanks

NZB · 12 Aug 2012 at 19:13

Curiousalien said:
Hey, I've never really watched boxing, the guy won today on count back. Can someone explain what it is? Is it who was ahead at the end of the last round? who won the last point? what?

I've had a quick google but nothing explains it.

thanks

There are 5 judges who each give a score. At the end of each round the highest and lowest scores are dropped and the middle 3 are used. On countback they use all 5 judge's scores for each round.

I think.

Skeeter · 12 Aug 2012 at 19:19

NZB said:
There are 5 judges who each give a score. At the end of each round the highest and lowest scores are dropped and the middle 3 are used. On countback they use all 5 judge's scores for each round.

I think.

Not quite.

There are 5 judges who have to press a red or blue button when they think the boxer has scored a point. If 3 judges press the same coloured button within 1 second, it counts as a point.

When they do a count back they count up all the individual button presses.

Curiousalien · 12 Aug 2012 at 19:24

Thanks makes more sense than what I was thinking it was