Is it Olympic Scoring or the American Amateur Program?

[El Chicano]

American fighters have not been able to succeed as a team at the Olympics since 1988 when we won multiple gold and silver medals. Since then, in four Olympics, correct me if I'm wrong, we've only won 3 gold medals; Oscar De La Hoya in '92, David Reed in '96, and Andre Ward in 2004. This is piss poor, but could it be that the Olympic scoring system is not benifitial to the American fighting style? Or even worse, does the Olympic boxing system not credit American fighters for undisclosed reasons? Someone help me out, I'm somewhat disappointed about the way things are turning out for us again this year.

[Spiegelo]

Well sometimes it's the scoring. I mean Look at two of our top p4p fighters in the past 10 years. RJJ has an 'honary' gold, I saw the Floyd fight where he was denied his olympic opportunity. It wasn't as bad as the Roy decision, but it was pretty frustrating. Then again I'd hate to blame the entire problem on an excuse. The training system was whack this year, and the scoring sucks, but we need a star lineup to knock the competition dead.

[El Chicano]

Well sometimes it's the scoring. I mean Look at two of our top p4p fighters in the past 10 years. RJJ has an 'honary' gold, I saw the Floyd fight where he was denied his olympic opportunity. It wasn't as bad as the Roy decision, but it was pretty frustrating. Then again I'd hate to blame the entire problem on an excuse. The training system was whack this year, and the scoring sucks, but we need a star lineup to knock the competition dead.

The scoring system does suck. There needs to be a better way. '88 was our last good showing at the Olympics for the U.S. Team. We got Ray Mercer, Andrew Maynard & Kennedy McKinney all winning Gold and then we had Roy Jones, Rid**** Bowe & Michael Carbajal with Silver medals. '84 was an even better year if i remember correctly. WTF is going on now-a-days???

[RAESAAD]

The scoring concept is fine....but whoever is counting landed punches is ****ed. I'm simply disgusted at what I watched yesterday and not just the robbery of Andrade but many of the probably 8 fights I watched were scored incorrectly....it was pitifull and they should be ahsamed. I'd boycott the Olympics if I were a young fighter that qualified....

[2501 v2.0]

its both. the Olympics are supposed to be an event where the majority of sports in the world are represented in the highest level of integrity and competition. The world's best athletes compete in their respective sports from Gymnastics to Swimming to Beach Volleyball so to take a sport such as Boxing and strip it down and dictate new rules to change the way a Boxing match is won and fought, well, that pretty much changes the whole sport in relation to the Olympics.

Athletes need to compete in the highest levels so get rid of the headgear and get rid of the new scoring system. Why does this need to be amatuerish?