Professional Boxing as an Olympic sport?

[Ryn0]

They have ****** "sports" like Beach Volleyball, Air Pistol shooting etc and not sports like Rugby, American football, football (soccer) and Professional boxing. That way fighters can't "avoid" each other and it set apart the great professional fighters from the good ones. AM boxing would still be there so the younger fighters would have a chance to compete. Why not? Roger Federer, Nadal etc. play for NO money so that shouldn't be an issue and Tennis/ Badminton etc run for longer than the 10 rounds a non title boxing match would normally run for. There would have to be a qualification system based on say titles/ rankings etc.

[MikeBrew328]

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[Nacho_Analstain]

Yeah, Not enough money for the fighters, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the real reason.

[Ryn0]

As I stated, people like Federer etc. play and not for money and they earn a hell of alot. Getting a Gold would certainly raise the fighter profiles, hell winning silver gave Amir Khan't a big profile. Not to mention the pride of coming home with a gold medal.

[LoloChivas]

They Do Have Soccer Just The Players Have To Be Like Under 23 Year Olds With 3 Players Of Any Age Group Per Team.

[Coyotefury]

yea they have soccer

[Ryn0]

yea they have soccer

I wasn't aware, sorry. It can't be very high profile then.

[x-PeROxiDE-x]

The olympics have very strict rules on sports where the result is open to debate.

Pro boxing is very subjective in its judging, and as such would never qualify to be inculded.

They were even considering throwing out sports like gymnastics and boxing where there is no way of telling the winner without going to judges.

[MikeBrew328]

As I stated, people like Federer etc. play and not for money and they earn a hell of alot. Getting a Gold would certainly raise the fighter profiles, hell winning silver gave Amir Khan't a big profile. Not to mention the pride of coming home with a gold medal.

Yeah but they don't have to sacrifice months to training when they could be making much more money.

If you want Olympic boxing more exciting, bring back old school scoring (which for the most part is fine except for a few major fights) or change to round by round scoring and up the rounds to 5 like the contender.

[Coyotefury]

I wasn't aware, sorry. It can't be very high profile then.

actully im not a big soccer fan but it almost look like the world cup, like the same players that play there play on their nations team... but don't quote me on that cuz like i said i don't follow soccer or claim to know that much about it other than ball goes in net that means you score..haha