RJJ at the 88 olympics

**BattlingNelson** · 04-09-2008, 08:16 AM

Originally posted by mgkirkpatrick

im doing a history of the olympics course and im thinking of doing my paper on the robbery of RJJ at the 88 olympics. any articles on the subject? any thoughts? all help appreciated.

At the time there was a lot of talk about corruption. I believe some documentary was made of it later and that it showed the top of AIBA and the judges being treated to the best hotels and getting expensive watches from the Coreans.

And BTW. The decision with RJJ was very bad, but as I recall the semifinal between the corean and an italian (Vicenzo Nardiello or something) was even worse. Nardiello went completely boncus pointing at officials and crying.

**THE REED** · 04-09-2008, 08:28 AM

I do know they did an investigation.. two of the judges were found proven to be wine and dined by officials, and were banned from the sport forever.

Park Si Hun himself admitted to Jones that he lost the bout.

They gave Jones Fighter of the Games, to make up for it... which really doesnt make up for a Gold Medal.

If you watch the fight... Park Si Hun, didnt touch Roy.

**TiptonFC** · 04-09-2008, 09:12 AM

there is a documentary of it on youtube, i watched it the other day

defianetely for me the worst robbery ive ever seen in boxing

**mgkirkpatrick** · 04-09-2008, 10:18 PM

another doco besides the stuff in beyond the glory?

yeah ive got information of park si who didnt win a fight fairly the whole way through the tournament..

ive got a quote from one of the judges saying he thought roy won so clearly he voted for the korean thinking it would be 4-1 and the host nation wouldnt be totally embarassed...

really looking for sources.. if anyone has a link to that doco it'd be much appreciated.

**mcentepede** · 04-10-2008, 01:07 PM

At the time, Some boxing old guy(historian) said that the Roy Jones-Park Si Hun gold medal bout was the "greatest robbery since the great train robbery". I'm surprised the koreans can actually live with themselves after that Olympics which had the most controversies I think. Ben johnson, powerlifters, Flo-Jo (still the fastest woman by the way) and korean boxers. "If you can't beat 'em....cheat 'em"

**big paulie** · 04-10-2008, 03:15 PM

worst decision in the sport of boxing pro or am that ive ever seen, blatantly a political statement

**mcentepede** · 04-11-2008, 01:08 PM

There has to come a point in any fighter's life where he thinks of honor and being a man. The Koreans showed the world that time in 1988 that they have little of either...Politics aside, they accepted all those gold medal controversies without batting an eye. I'm surprised that they didn't re-watch the classic movie "Best of The Best" where they gave Eric Roberts back the gold medals after getting stomped by Tommy Rhee and Roberts, that was Hollywood I know...but it looked good.

**mgkirkpatrick** · 04-14-2008, 10:49 AM

hopefully ill be able to dig up some more information and will post the paper in here in a couple of months if you guys are interested.

**titoi** · 04-14-2008, 12:58 PM

It's not just boxing. Just ask Spain or Italy how much they enjoyed their time at the world cup in S. Korea in 2002...

RJJ at the 88 olympics