Whites doing well in Olympic boxing

TBProdigy

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There were two European Gold Medal winners today, Ukraine's Alexander Usyk at HW and the UK's Luke Campbell at bantamweight.

Two Asian boxers won Gold, China's Shiming Zouat light flyweight and Japan's Ryota Murata at middleweight.

One negro won Gold, Cuba's
Roniel Iglesias at light welterweight.

http://www.london2012.com/boxing/schedule-and-results/day=11-august/all-day.html

Berinchyk is made of steel, determination and strong mentalities seem to be possessed by all Ukranian boxers, getting hit seems to have no effect. The cuban fought the perfect fight from his point of view, he stayed off the ropes and out of corners where Berinchyk is at his best, he utilised good sideways movement, I have to give him credit even though I'm gutted the Ukranian isn't taking the gold home.
 

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Ukraine very well may have won 4 golds if it wasn't for crooked judging. Khytrov was robbed against Agogo and Gvozdyk clearly won the semi-final against Niyazymbetov of Kazakhstan.
 

Charles Martel

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Roberto Cammarelle was robbed in the super heavyweight final against Joshua.

Sometimes when Cammerelle landed, the absurdly biased UK commentators were saying Joshua landed.
 

amoeba man

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From Bantam to super heavy white boxers took 4 golds with 2 golds going to black fighters and 2 golds to asians 1 being an asian Kazach.All in all it was a good olympics but could have been better.The Ukranian middle should have won gold but was robbed and Cammarelle should definately have won his super heavy final.
 

white is right

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The count back system needs to be changed it's too easy for a corrupt judge to hit the home countries fighter button like mad and give him a better count back score. It happened three times for British boxers(two Blacks and one White). If two boxers tie then an extra round should happen like what some pro organizations do.
 

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I watched the first day of the gold medal round and they seemed to get the decisions right, unlike earlier rounds where it about three out of four were very questionable. Seems a lot of the bad decisions come in the earlier rounds, when they figure fewer people are watching and then subsequent fights make the rip-offs yesterday's news.

By the time they reach the medal rounds more people are watching, plus everyone is assured of a medal, so there is less incentive to help a fighter advance through chicanery. So everything seemed more on the up and up (except maybe the super heavy fight in the home fighter's favor).
 
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