Only been watching the boxing for an hour

And after that DQ, we see a formality walkover. Class. Reminds me when I was seven and we had to score a goal in a five-a-side contest to beat a team that never turned up.

Match fixing (allegedly). Iranian in the lead doing well, looked a cert to win. Come out for the 2nd round and gets dQ'd within 1 minute for 3 lots of holding.

Ref in the Japanese fight was probably a bit of both helping up the fighter who was stumbling everywhere where he had readily issued a standing eight count to the Japanese fighter earluer.

As someone whose watched all the Boxing, it was a rare t1ts up moment in what has been a great tournament so far

Do you think ref had taken a call earlier from a Mr Castro?

yes I have watched all the boxing and it has been an excellent competition in every respect

I must say I watched last few nights without incident. I actually prefer the scores not being shown during the rounds. Less of a distraction.

Yeah it means fighters cant just get on their bike with 30 seconds to go. One hour till Joshua, think the crowd will take the roof off.
Tricky first fight

Who is he fighting sj? Think I heard earlier it was a good fighter.

shambles according to the reports

2217:
BOXING
Satoshi Shimizu was not a happy man after his defeat to Magomed Abdulhamidov, who fell down five times in the final round:

Shimizu said: "I was so shocked about the result. I didn't know until the final score. The first thing I did after the match was ask the scores.

"I was shocked about the final scores. He fell down so many times. Why didn't I win? I don't understand.

"This is the second Olympic Games I have played and even in Beijing I wasn't happy about the judgement, so I don't know what to do about that. I am really not happy about that.

"But I did do my best. I performed really well. England is the place of boxing and the spectators supported me so well so I am very pleased about that."

Cuban Savon. Tough first fight but he's on the right side of the draw if he can get through tonight I think he will get at least a silver

2213:
BOXING
Bizarre scenes in the boxing just now as Iranian boxer Ali Mazaheri is disqualified for a series of seemingly innocuous offences in his match against Cuban Jose Larduet. He spent a few minutes standing in his corner of the ring, refusing to go to the middle so the referee could acknowledge Larduet as the winner. Eventually he walked over to acknowledge the Cuban corner, before leaving the ring, ignoring both Larduet and the referee.

"It was six of one and half a dozen of the other. It was a terrible refereeing display," says BBC commentator Richie Woodhall.

The score system is wrong. Should go back to 10 point must system. System is no good for combination puncher's

Cheers sj. Thought I heard it was a Cuban but not sure.

Probably but the bok on him, but watch Vasyl Lomachenko the Ukranian lightweight at 1:30PM tomorrow a treat mate. Unbeaten since 2007 in major tournaments

Aug 1, 2012 -- 10:16PM, shamokin wrote:

Do you think ref had taken a call earlier from a Mr Castro?

He'll like the call from Tehran a lot less.

Probably at work then. Do they put them on the iplayer or is it the BBC1 & BBC3 shows only.

What do you mean Richie...Jo Frazier...Howard Clarke had the best cross guard

Think it will be on I-Player. If not I'll be surprised if you dont see him in the final a week sunday

I hate the fact that tall Super Heavyweights keep on winning

Not really as huge a factor at the over weights

other weights

Aug 1, 2012 -- 10:32PM, Crisp77 wrote:

Probably at work then. Do they put them on the iplayer or is it the BBC1 & BBC3 shows only.

I think all the footage is available on the BBC website via the watch live thingy they've got.

Will try and watch live but more than likely will hope they load it on the 'Catch-up' option later

Canadian looks a bit basic

Yeah Frog has just got to stay calm here

Canadian in the lead now

France man had a round off

Evander

One more fight, then Joshua

looking forward to seeing the big lad, not long now

come on anthony

Count back

Canadian won because he wanted it more

hows the count back work,yoka won 2 rounds to 1 ? and why no scoring on screen

I think it goes on number of button presses

Over the whole contest

Decent fight this

Zhang was offered loads to go pro 4 years ago

He's not too bad. Don't think he would do much as a pro though.

Goodnight

I wouldn't tell him that to his face

Good decision

Here we go

You know this is set up for a fall Best of luck Joshua

On BBC1 now

Good jab from the Cuban

Joshua landing some good uns

Come on Josh good start pump that jab

What an exchange,

Good chin on Savon

Savon worked him out I think

I'm a GB fan, but I don't know how they are scoring this in our favour.

Savon going to win this

I think the Cuban should get the verdict

Boom

Shock

lucky boy home town verdict

vey lucky decision imo

pleased to see our boy win

but the better man lost imo

I actually feel quite sorry for the Cuban. Was the better boxer all the way through.

good fight,that could have been the final,why no live scoring on screen ?

yup poor lad the cuban, deffo landed more clean blows

joshua will go a long way in the game,good chin,will be a good professional imo

Cuban robbed there. No way Joshua won that 2nd round and definitely lost the 3rd by a decent margin.

Think the China man will beat him

joshua will win the gold

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good fight,that could have been the final,why no live scoring on screen ?

I've been wondering that - assume it's because they've changed the scoring system, 5 judges - two most extreme scores dropped then take average of other three wheras when they show the scores they were registering when 3 judges pressed a button to signify punch landed.

yes joshua threw very little last round

fyi they only show the scores at the end of r1 and r2 and then not til the announcement

Thought it was close the Cuban by 2 or 3. Joshua has just knocked out the best "technical" boxer in the division. Kid is 22 only been boxing 2 years

there's home town advantage for you. cuban certainly nicked it.

should be good for a few golds in boxing and gynastics judging by that

seriously needs to learn how to punch to the body

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yes joshua threw very little last round

fyi they only show the scores at the end of r1 and r2 and then not til the announcement

Yep, but in previous recent Olympics (at least in Beijing I think) they've shown the scores accumulating as the fight is in progress right up to the final bell so that you know who the winner is when final bell sounds.Don't know why it has changed.

Joshua in a good place now, don't rate the AZE World Champ that much, big puncher but poor technically. Think the man to give Joshua most trouble will be Dychko from KAZ, a good mover for 6ft 9!

they've changed it so boxers and coaches don't know the score during the rounds

poor reason if that's the case - not crowd or viewer friendly.

Not sure what the down side is of boxers and coachs knowing the score. Particularly as it's boxing where scoring controversies are not exactly unheard of.

impressed by joshua but do agree with some of the posts above, the cuban probably suffered a marginal hometown verdict

the disqualification of the Iranian was ridiculous and hope they protest and win their protest, the problem was the cuban coming in with his head low all the time

It s stopped so that fighters fight the all of the last round rather than spoiling and running

its to do with 'integrity of competition'

there will be an announcement on the website of the official body of the sport http://www.aiba-london2012.com/

I get the point about preventing a fighter spoiling and running but would have thought the integrity of the competition was better served by having the scoring visible to participants, coaches, stadium audience and TV viewers at all times.

Of all the sports in the Olympics , boxing is probably the most susceptible to a poor official / referee .  Has always been thus , but boxing has always refused to have more than one official in charge of a bout .  The sport got away with it early in its sporting career , as there was not the means to record what actually happened , but film has changed all that .  Except for the prime fact re one referee , and presumably no appeal procedure .  Most sensible sports have embraced technology ( except soccer notably ) , just needs a bit of will and sense to sort out a better system than they have , but I suspect there are vested interests always within the boxing scene who want to be able to have more than allotted influence on results ( amateur and pro ) .

So live with it boxing fans ( not one myself although competitors from my neck of the woods are always our best hopes for medals , sometimes despite officialdom ) .

Good lord, ****.

Ridiculous. The guy from the land of the rising sun.  Is that ok?

Lol, they've deleted my post. 

To summarise, the Japanese fella had his appeal upheld against the decision in his fight with the Azerbaijani.  The ref was a total disgrace.  BF clearly don't agree with someone pointing out the justice in this.

that's great news mambo, he deserved a clear win

great fight,ogogo didnt leave nothing in the ring,gave his all.

Fantastic. Considering his personal problems at the moment, that was a champions performance.

superb - classy reaction from the Ukrainian also.

great stuff

Can anyone tell me where on earth Ogogo scored 7 points in that last round, this is why the old scoring system should have stayed, Ogogo was getting points for shadow boxing

Must admit.. I can't see how we won that. Boxing a very dodgy sport.

dont know why the scores arent on the screen

khytrov is out yet people want to back him on the middleweight outright market,strange

His not out yet.

I think ogogo is out.

Countback score added wrongly I believe

there was an appeal with result standing,ogogo goes through

ogogo through,sky sports says the appeal was thrown out

ref has been kicked out following the japanese fight, 2 others suspended

where do they get these refs from?

there was second appeal but it was also rejected.

Sergey Bubka (head of ukrainian olympic committee) told that Ukraine will go to Lausanne court to find justice about this decision in Khytrov's match.

the refs in Khytrov's match were from Argentina, Marocco, Italy, Poland and France

I think that Khytrov should meet these refs somewhere near Whitehart lane stadium in the dark hours :))))