The Cuban Erislandy Savon clearly beat AJ in the first round, but they awarded the fight to the home fighter 17-16. If it was scored correctly obviously he leaves the Olympic's without medalling. AJ then goes onto the final and meets Italian Roberto Cammarelle, who in a lot of peoples opinion actually beat AJ, but it was scored 18-18 and then after a countback they awarded the gold medal to AJ... Again another decision AJ benefited from as the home fighter.
So the best case for AJ would've been winning the silver medal but in reality he would've been eliminated in the first round with nothing.
Question is how would his professional career have progressed if he was just a normal fighter without Olympic medal honors? would he have ever gone on to win a world title? How many times would he have been chinned and to who?
So the best case for AJ would've been winning the silver medal but in reality he would've been eliminated in the first round with nothing.
Question is how would his professional career have progressed if he was just a normal fighter without Olympic medal honors? would he have ever gone on to win a world title? How many times would he have been chinned and to who?
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