Comments Thread For: N'Dam, Ruenroeng Lose at Qualifiers, Still Win Olympics Spots

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VARGAS, Venezuela - Former world champions Amnat Ruenroeng of Thailand and Hassan N'Dam of Cameroon have won spots at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics despite losing in the final qualifying tournament in Venezuela.

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[yngwie]

Yeah, it looked like if Ruenrong quits and N'Dam fought a good fight with Carrillo, but still Carrillo was trying to put some La Cruz type performance, and La Cruz beat him at least twice.

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Those are the videos in case anyone wants to watch the fights. Credit to uploader.

[TheCell8]

N'Dam got embarrassed and shut out. So much for it being unfair to have pros in the Olympics.

[Pigeons]

Boxing is dead until the 2020 Olympics. **** is going down in Tokyo 2020.

[Golden Boi 360]

Ndam is fighting at 178? Maybe thats why he lost. These dudes have a size advantage

[dan_cov]

I really don't know why fans who have been around the sport a long time expected anything other especially those that have competed.
The amateurs is almost a completely different sport. People who assume the olympics is full of inexperienced kids couldn't be anymore wrong.

The pro's train more for 12 rounds and developing and delivering power. The amateurs is the true sweet science all about movement, defense, angles, knocking up points over a short period.

Like I said before take Prizefighter for example because of the same format. The seasoned pros never do well in it, its pretty much always won by a guy fresh out of the amateurs because he is used to the short, rapid fire format.
A lot of these olympic level boxers would ****ing wreck a lot of these cats under pro rules too.

[HeroBando]

Ndam is fighting at 178? Maybe thats why he lost. These dudes have a size advantage

The next lowest is 165 but that's same day weighin and that might be too low for him

[chico malo ali]

These pros just got there azz kicked by teenagers. How embarrassing!

[yngwie]

Ndam is fighting at 178? Maybe thats why he lost. These dudes have a size advantage

No.
N'Dam fought at 81 because he isn't able to do the same weight every day, he is fighting in his natural weigh just like any boxer in the tournament.
That's why Beterbiev was an amateur heavyweight, that's why Ward was an amateur LHW who turned pro at super middle.