Olympic Boxing - Rio 2016

[yngwie]

La Cruz? Is he the best of the Cubans?

La Cruz is the best overall, p4p the best amateur boxer in the world.

[yngwie]

puerto rico has just one entrant in the games and GBR has an entrant named muhammad ali ffs.

Ali is really good, his fights vs Asenov in the european championships was really good and was beaten by Shakur Stevenson in the youth championships.

[IrishGolovkin]

Hopefully Conlan can win Gold. I am not a huge fan, but I feel like he's Ireland's best hope for Gold on the men's side.
If he gets Gold he'll be a huge superstar. I love the Irish fans, so I really want to see an Irish superstar in boxing. Not that Frampton isn't, but I think Conlan can be even bigger if he gets Gold. Just my opinion.
Joe Ward is the best boxer for Ireland imo, but La Cruz is going to be extremely difficult to beat. I don't see Ward beating him just yet.
Barnes will more than likely get a medal, but being a Light Flyweight he wouldn't have a big of an impact like Conlan would.

Yeah the sky is the limit for Conlan. He has said he'll fight in the Republic of Ireland as a pro so no doubt he'll surpass Frampton once he has any kind of success as a pro. Potential for huge momentum if both Conlan and Barnes win gold before heading pro. Could top the bill of cards in Ireland together and sell out arenas pretty quick.

Conlan has already called out Frampton to fight him too. Lot of potential for the future if things fall into place which is exactly what Irish boxing needs.

[Dr Rumack]

Yeah the sky is the limit for Conlan. He has said he'll fight in the Republic of Ireland as a pro so no doubt he'll surpass Frampton once he has any kind of success as a pro. Potential for huge momentum if both Conlan and Barnes win gold before heading pro. Could top the bill of cards in Ireland together and sell out arenas pretty quick.

Conlan has already called out Frampton to fight him too. Lot of potential for the future if things fall into place which is exactly what Irish boxing needs.

If Conlan is a good pro he'll have a huge following. Very marketable.

[NEETzsche]

here we go

fun fight to kick it all off, both landing clean hard punches

[Chrismart]

BBC stream if in the uk : http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36440151

[NEETzsche]

the brazilian is getting beaten up. another good scrap

two fights in and the new rules are already paying dividends

[HI-TECH Boxing]

Two great fights so far.
The Light Flyweights giving it their all.
Martinez of Colombia always gives fun fights. He may have to fight Barnes in the Quaterfinals if both make it that far. That would be a tremendous bout.

[mathed]

The Italian is sloppy and rough as heck.

[asgarth]

How am I able to watch the fights in germany? German television switches around several sports and more or less are only showing highlights