Comments Thread For: Team USA: Olympic Postmortem

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By Cliff Rold - One gold. One silver. One bronze. It's one medal more than US boxers had in 2012 and this time, unlike last, the men got in on the action. It was Olympic boxing so there was more than a fair share of controversies for fighters from around the world. Like the professional world of pugilism, boxing has a hard time getting out of its own way...
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[kidbazooka]

Team USA needs another Oscar de la hoya.

Oscar was bonafide huge in the 90's and early 00's. Now just imagine how big he would have been around this era of social media and all.

[ultravividscene]

Oh dear, i had to give up reading this article a quarter of the way in. Poor sentence construction and grammar throughout. It reads like it was written in a foreign language then run through google translate. Doesn't anybody proof read any more? A spellcheck is no substitute, only telling if a word is spelled incorrectly. What it doesn't do is arrange the words in a way that makes contextual sense and perhaps more importantly, construct sentences that are a pleasure to read.

Of course i'm no expert but then again i don't publish articles for a living.

3/10

[Boxfan83]

Team USA needs another Oscar de la hoya.

Oscar was bonafide huge in the 90's and early 00's. Now just imagine how big he would have been around this era of social media and all.

I thought the same thing. Even if Stevenson wouldve won I dont think he wouldve been the "it" factor USA boxing needed. De La Hoyas looks and ethnicity got him to where he was. He came in at a perfect time when Mexican men were all about supporting Chavez and the sport of boxing then De La Hoya brought the women & American fans. It worked out well.

With that said though, I think Stevenson and Nico could have good/great careers of their own. Both Nico and Stevenson will be in smaller weight divisions that do not have many Americans dominating if any. The Mexican and Japanese $$$ in those smaller weight classes is big and underrated. Also less politics and drama.

[NEETzsche]

apart from the obvious one, shakur stevenson, carlos balderas jr struck me as the guy with the most star potential. he has a nice style, he's gutsy and savvy and it took the #1 seed to eliminate him in a close contest

antonio vargas clearly has some great tools but to me he seemed to lack top level ring IQ and instincts. of course, he only lost to the eventual winner of his class and one of the three or four most impressive fighters in the whole tournament, but he seemed to show less resistance in defeat than his teammates