Comments Thread For: Joe Joyce Has To Hold His Place

[Willow The Wisp]

Meh? Really? So, by this reasoning the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl or the Golden State Warriors winning the NBA Finals or the Avalanche winning the Stanley Cup, etc. etc. etc didn't mean anything because the other teams have won games against them before. And the Astros winning the World Series in 2017 and keeping that title even though they were busted later for stealing signs, nah, that doesn't matter.

"Winning on the biggest stage when it matters the most doesn't really matter, nor does getting cheated out of the win on the biggest stage." - Willow The Wisp

Again, Meh. While there have been a whole host of hightly questionable (fraudulent, robberies), decisions in amateur boxing in the 40+ years I've covered it, the Yoka - Joyce verdict at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games just isn't one of them. It was a very close fight and English speakers hoping for the next Anthony Joshua to be ordained there felt jobbed. But the judges and most of those assembled in Rio saw reigning world champion Yoka as the smoother boxer, and he earned the win. Yoka came up the hard as as an amateur and beat Joseph Parker, Frazier Clarke, Ivan Dychko, Filip Hrgovic, Marcin Siwy, Magomed Omarov, Con Sheehan, Ali Eren Denirezen, Dean Gardner, Jose Larduet and others, and his win over Joe in Doha in 2015 wasn't especially close.

[Tag, You're Hit]

Again, Meh. While there have been a whole host of hightly questionable (fraudulent, robberies), decisions in amateur boxing in the 40+ years I've covered it, the Yoka - Joyce verdict at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games just isn't one of them. It was a very close fight and English speakers hoping for the next Anthony Joshua to be ordained there felt jobbed. But the judges and most of those assembled in Rio saw reigning world champion Yoka as the smoother boxer, and he earned the win. Yoka came up the hard as as an amateur and beat Joseph Parker, Frazier Clarke, Ivan Dychko, Filip Hrgovic, Marcin Siwy, Magomed Omarov, Con Sheehan, Ali Eren Denirezen, Dean Gardner, Jose Larduet and others, and his win over Joe in Doha in 2015 wasn't especially close.

I can get behind this post. Good reasoning here, though not saying I agree 100%. Your reasoning in the other post - "Meh, Yoka beat Joyce more than once in the amateurs." - wasn't on point.