2016 Rio Olympics | BOXING | August 6th thru 21st |

[Daisy Jane]

apparently some judges are being sent home due to match fixing?

 

[Fighter]

Did you see Levit against Tischenko? I swear this verdict was worse than Roy Jones Jr vs Park Si Hun.
The referee stopped the fight (for like a minute!!!) while Tischenko was wobbling, on the brink of going KO, with the excuse of a cut. Levit pummeling Tischenko left and right, yet Tischenko got the gold. Referee, judges, all together determined to give Russia (and I'm a fan of Russia!!!) a shameful gold.
I'm utterly disgusted.

 

[Cole Caulifield]

apparently some judges are being sent home due to match fixing?

The problem is that it's the AIBA making these calls. People are saying the AIBA is rotten to the core from top to bottom. Sending a few guys home changes nothing. They're merely being scapegoated since it's too obvious and people are making a fuss.

The IOC needs to get in there and take over. The AIBA is so corrupt that they were called out by the guardian BEFORE the games, and still went through with the original plan of fixing fights anyway. It's mind boggling.

Imagine if they were smarter about it and would only tilted the scale a little bit when the result is only slightly in doubt ? There would be no way to even tell that collusion is happening.

This entire structure needs to be taken down. The corruption is simply too deep. At this point, it's the athlete's and public's confidence that is completely shattered. Drastic major action needs to be taken here. We're way past the point of sending a few judges home, the competition is almost over anyway !!! Sending judges home should have been done BEFORE the games, then the AIBA would have had credibility, maybe, if they had sent the right people home.

EDIT:

This tells you all you need to know about AIBA :

RIO DE JANEIRO — Several referees and judges have been removed from the Olympic boxing competition after officials reviewed their decisions, fueling suspicion of dubious results in some matches at the Rio Games.

A spokesman for the international federation that governs the Olympic boxing tournament said Wednesday that the names of the referees and judges who were dismissed, and the matches that were tainted, would not be released because he did not want to “besmirch their families.”

The federation, known as AIBA, said in a statement that the committee that reviews officiating had assessed all 239 bouts at the Rio Games through Tuesday and had “determined that less than a handful of the decisions were not at the level expected.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/s...ferees-and-judges-removed-after-a-review.html

Too long to read version
AIBA: Hai gais, not telling you who is corrupt because we want to protect them, but really guys it wasn't so bad, just a few fights which were fixed... common...

Hilarious that they are downplaying this... they're basically saying that a few guys went too far with the fixing. But all the reasonable fixing is ok.


Another article's conclusion :

Based on Virgets’ remarks, AIBA is favoring the incompetence narrative—“We’re not match-fixing, we’re just bad at our jobs!”—but given the sport’s checkered Olympic history, it feels ridiculous to choose one or the other. Is Olympic boxing corrupt, or are the judges incompetent? The only right answer is: yes.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/five_rin...oxing_judges_incompetent_corrupt_or_both.html

 

[Ivan13]

Refs are rotten to the bone, in Hrgović's fight against Perro, Hrgović knocked him down in the 1st round and Perro still won the round 2-1. Luckily that pissed off Hrgović and he smacked Perro around in the 2nd round before he sent him down for good. Hopefully, he gets a better treatment in the SF's against Yoka.

 

[Muston Atthews]

Women's lightweight gold medal fights 4th round is awful. The Chinese girl keeps holding onto the French girl because she had the lead

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Boxing has lost so much credibility as a sport over years because of match fixing , etc its not shocking to see on world stage for that to continue

I honestly expect Boxing to continue to fade away and this black eye certainly is latest setback for sport crediblity

 

[Dr Pepper]

Women's lightweight gold medal fights 4th round is awful. The Chinese girl keeps holding onto the French girl because she had the lead

Saw the tail end of that one, some pretty weak "punches" being thrown near the end. Just arm flailing, mostly.

 

[Shrimper]

Lol. British guy dominating the French guy. French guy gets the first round.

Boxing Judges...

 

[Shrimper]

Robbed. Absolutely robbed.

What a ****ing joke.

 

[Fighter]

Robbed. Absolutely robbed.

What a ****ing joke.

The italian commentators agreed with the judges... but I couldn't see the match that way. I thought the Brit had the harder, better punches. Whatever really...