As a boxing fan I want pros in the Olympic games

[HanzGruber]

Team USA basketball is ALL pro players...yet people are getting upset at pro boxers fighting? Hmmm

Smart guy those other countries have all pro players too lol

[Rip Chudd]

Smart guy those other countries have all pro players too lol

I swear man, people are ******ed

[krazyn8tive]

Smart guy those other countries have all pro players too lol

Check this out Einstein...the nba is the mt Everest of world basketball. But you already knew that.

[krazyn8tive]

Anyways, catchingd1ckking is making my point for me. Why all the fake outrage for pro boxers fighting in the olympics?

[Kazakh Thunder]

Me 2, WAR Pro Olympians !!!

[Chuckguy]

The soccer and baseball teams are going up against other pros, the best from their respective countries. Now you wanna take a pro and put them up against guys who have limited experience in boxing? That's not even a good comparison

I'm boxing it can be done too

[Eff Pandas]

Pro's in other sports can't kill each other man. LeBron being in the Olympics won't lead to a shorter life span towards his competitors. That's my biggest argument, honestly. Putting guys with so much experience with amateurs (head gear or not) is dangerous

I doubt it. They stop amateur fights & give S8C when you get stunned. Injuries are much less likely to happen when Steve Smoger isn't the model for how refs should work. And these are mostly elite level guys who are probably often sparring pros now anyway. I actually tend to think pros might have more problems winning fights at all with the unusual time they will be working with vs how their skills have advanced as pros then they'll be hurting amateurs.

Plus lets not bs there are pros in the Olympics now more or less with how amateur programs work in many countries. Its not really a surprise there are a record number of absolute beasts or troublesome prospects for contenders already who got 12 or less fights. That says a lot right there about the guys these "kids" have been fighting already.

[stefl14]

I don't like the idea - either everybody is a pro or everybody isn't. But anyone saying it's dangerous doesn't know what they are talking about. It's no more dangerous than some of the fights we get now in the amateurs, where one man totally outclasses another. I'm an amateur fighter (albeit a very experienced one with over 80 fights) and regularly spar some very accomplished pros. I'm sure world class amateurs far better than myself can go 3 rounds with pros. In fact, a pro fighter I know who had only 16 amateur fights with 1 loss (so basically a novice even if he was a good one) was sparring hard for a few rounds with froch as soon as he went pro. The danger isn't the problem. The problem is that it ruins the spirit of olympic boxing.

[RiC-DiC]

Professional or amateur, it's still boxing. The Olympics are supposed to be for the world's best athletes in every contest. Doesn't matter if they're professional or amateur, the best should go to the competition of the best.

It won't be an easy gold for many pro's either. There are some excellent eastern European and Cuban amateurs that could easily beat most professionals if they went pro.

[Rip Chudd]

I'm boxing it can be done too

If they were to do it separate from the amateurs where all pros would be fighting each other then i'd be all for that. But to put someone in there like say a kid that's 17 and has been boxing since he was 12 up against someone who has been boxing as long as this kid has been alive is just wrong, they are gonna get these kids hurt