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Bennie-Mac

Bennie-Mac

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It occurs to me that we have quite a good chance to bag a few more medals in the boxing this year, yet nobody has really been mentioning it. Considering Amir Khan was our only boxing entry in Athens 2004, its great to see so many young boxers representing team GB.

If im not mistaken all of Team GB are still in the running and with
Luke Campbell winning his fight against the Italian Parrinello
its certainly looking good so far.

Lets face it getting into fights is what GB is good at :)
 
I meant the random disqualification and then some guy walking in the ring on his own and being declared the winner :confused:
 
Skeeter said:
I meant the random disqualification and then some guy walking in the ring on his own and being declared the winner :confused:
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I dont know about the disqualification (perhaps the boxer didnt make the required weight?) but they would still have to officially declare his opponent the winner, so still announce it in the ring.
 
It was 2 different fights.

The ref seemed to stop a fight for nothing unusual, and then disqualified the guy.

Then the next fight just one boxer came out and got announced the winner. I think I heard something about not attending a medical or something?

I'd only just turned it on and was all a bit :confused: for a bit.
 
Im trying to find the videos to watch but the bbc site is very hard to navigate if you are looking for something that isnt a GB victory...

Edit - Found the Cuba vs Iran fight, watching now.
 
Shoddy refereeing there indeed, seems he was publicly warned 3 times in a round for holding his opponents head down. Ref was a bit trigger happy.

Edit - The other fight was a forfeit by the way
 
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Good home decision, but bad decision for the sport. That was the Cuban's fight. Anywhere else in the world and Joshua would be on his way home.

Abysmal decision.
 
robfosters said:
Good home decision, but bad decision for the sport. That was the Cuban's fight. Anywhere else in the world and Joshua would be on his way home.

Abysmal decision.
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Aren't the judges all from independant nations? How does the fact it was in the UK change the outcome?
 
I thought he deserved the first two rounds, but the 3rd round was definitely the Cubans. I dont see what the problem is. Unless you think he should have lost the 3rd round by more points?
 
Honestly thought Joshua had lost it, didn't rewatch but I thought the other guy definitely had it.

Ah well, if only Olympics had proper boxing
 
Heard on talksport on the way in to work that someone knocked down his opponent 6 times yet still lost. No one has mentioned it on here though. Anyone know what happened?
 
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