Olympics questions and opinions!

**Russian Crushin** · 08-03-2012, 12:29 PM

Originally posted by SERVILEV

Why is it that Olympic Boxing isnt for Pros? I mean you want the best that your country has to offer right!! If the Dream Team2 can have Lebron and Kobe, and Soccer can have all their Pros, Why cant Boxing?? I like the Olympics and all, but they need to weed out some of the weak events they consider Olympics Sports, like Badminton and that boring *ss horseshow walking crap. whats next? Olympics weaving and knitting? or paper airplanes and paper football flick? lmbo!!

The need to weed out boxing, nobody needs 5 robberies a day and fixed winners

And you've never watched badminton but its a pretty intense sport and popular in Asia, in no way is it a weak sport

**-DSG-** · 08-03-2012, 12:34 PM

Originally posted by SERVILEV

Why is it that Olympic Boxing isnt for Pros? I mean you want the best that your country has to offer right!! If the Dream Team2 can have Lebron and Kobe, and Soccer can have all their Pros, Why cant Boxing?? I like the Olympics and all, but they need to weed out some of the weak events they consider Olympics Sports, like Badminton and that boring *ss horseshow walking crap. whats next? Olympics weaving and knitting? or paper airplanes and paper football flick? lmbo!!

soccer doedsnt use their pros its the u23 teams and 3 call ups

**Larry the boss** · 08-03-2012, 12:36 PM

Cause i doubt pro's especially the best in the world would want to go to the Olympics,they are looking for the big money fights and have bills to pay,they get paid per fight unlike Ball players who have contracts and get paid rather they play or not,huge difference

**gingerbreadman** · 08-03-2012, 12:42 PM

Originally posted by -SWIFT-

soccer doedsnt use their pros its the u23 teams and 3 call ups

All of those guys are pros in the football, the age cap is just that. Boxing is the only sport which doesn't allow pros, and the AIBA has made noises in the pastat wanting to inlude pros again.

@servilev, badminton isn't the sport I'd take out. You do have a point with dressage though, provides no spectacle.

@russian crushin don't exaggerate, there aren't 5 robberies a day, and there aren't fixed winners. If you're making a snide remark about Ogogo and Joshua, those fights are too close to be called robberies. Although I personally think that Khytrov and Savon deserved the nod, neither was at all the same scale as say, Rios-Abril. THAT is a robbery.

**BetterCallSaul** · 08-03-2012, 12:46 PM

I don't want to see pro's in 'amateur' boxing. Why can't people get into their thick skulls that AM boxing is a different entity to the pro game?

**CubanGuyNYC** · 08-03-2012, 12:47 PM

Originally posted by SERVILEV

Why is it that Olympic Boxing isnt for Pros? I mean you want the best that your country has to offer right!! If the Dream Team2 can have Lebron and Kobe, and Soccer can have all their Pros, Why cant Boxing?? I like the Olympics and all, but they need to weed out some of the weak events they consider Olympics Sports, like Badminton and that boring *ss horseshow walking crap. whats next? Olympics weaving and knitting? or paper airplanes and paper football flick? lmbo!!

After the 1988 Games, the IOC decided to make all professional athletes eligible for the Olympics, subject to the approval of the IFs.[126] As of 2004, the only sports in which no professionals compete are boxing and wrestling... (Wikipedia)

What is considered a "weak event" is a matter of opinion, usually shaped by the culture you were raised in. Baseball (one of my favorite sports) is very popular in the U.S., Japan, the Caribbean and some South American countries, but it has little or no appeal to the rest of the world. Soccer has never gained a real foothold (no pun intended) in the United States, yet everyone knows it's fiercely popular practically everywhere else.

**Russian Crushin** · 08-03-2012, 12:53 PM

Originally posted by gingerbreadman

All of those guys are pros in the football, the age cap is just that. Boxing is the only sport which doesn't allow pros, and the AIBA has made noises in the pastat wanting to inlude pros again.

@servilev, badminton isn't the sport I'd take out. You do have a point with dressage though, provides no spectacle.

@russian crushin don't exaggerate, there aren't 5 robberies a day, and there aren't fixed winners. If you're making a snide remark about Ogogo and Joshua, those fights are too close to be called robberies. Although I personally think that Khytrov and Savon deserved the nod, neither was at all the same scale as say, Rios-Abril. THAT is a robbery.

OMG you just brought up Rios-Abril, that automatically makes all the robberies in the past 2 days "too close" to be robberies

And look another brit giving the nod to the brits in obvious robberies

But ill also include the Gausha, the Bogdan Juratoni, the Ali Mazaheri, the Khytrov, the Satoshi Shimizu and the The joshua robberies all withen a 2 day period. Thats 6 obvious robberies in 2 days

**CubanGuyNYC** · 08-03-2012, 12:54 PM

Originally posted by larryx2012

Cause i doubt pro's especially the best in the world would want to go to the Olympics,they are looking for the big money fights and have bills to pay,they get paid per fight unlike Ball players who have contracts and get paid rather they play or not,huge difference

Correct. I'll add that basketball players get paid whether they're injured or not. I doubt a big name boxer would want to risk injury at the Olympics and have a lucrative pro bout postponed, or even cancelled, because they were vying for an Olympic medal.

**RlCKY** · 08-03-2012, 12:57 PM

The reason pro's don't and can't compete is because the rules for amateur boxing differ from professional boxing.

The scoring system is different, and obviously there is the use of head gear and heavier gloves, etc.

Plus styles don't always translate well from AMs to PROs

I like the way they have it because the Olympics are like the minor leagues, a springboard for the new crop of young great fighters to showcase their talents.

Olympics questions and opinions!