Quick thoughts on the Featherweight Olympic boxing draw.
Official Link to the Featherweight Draw
Featherweight (57kg / 125 lbs)
Sometimes winning an Olympic boxing medal has less to do with one’s talent and everything to do with the random draw. Beijing 2008’s featherweight competition is such an example. The 2007 World Championship gold and silver medalists, Russia’s Albert [...]
By Guest Blogger Jodie Lynn Boduch of Gossip on Sports
Or, more properly, to put their money where there mikes are.
Fed up with media types (hey, don’t look at us . . . We’re only guest blogging) talking smack about his clutch-and-grab style, John “The Quietman” Ruiz has issued a challenge. The WBA heavyweight champ times [...]
Quick thoughts on the Welterweight Olympic boxing draw.
Official Link to the Welterweight Draw
Welterweight (69 kg / 152 lbs.)
In their Olympics preview edition Sports Illustrated picked Briton Billy Joe Saunders to win light welterweight bronze. Problem is Billy Joe is fighting at welterweight and while he might have an amazing backstory remarkable back story (his great [...]
Quick thoughts on the Light Welterweight Olympic boxing draw.
Official Link to the Light Welterweight Draw
Light Welterweight (64 kg / 140 lbs.)
The good news for American Javier Molina is that he won’t face the 2007 World Championships gold, silver, and one of its bronze medalists until the Olympic gold medal match. They’re all in the top [...]
In our light heavyweights first day summary we said that Tajikstan’s Djakhon Kurbanov “dominated” defending world champ Abbos Atoev and merely that the referee stopped Croatian Marijo Sivolija-Jelica bout against Samoan Satupaitea Farani Tavui in the third round.
That was before we saw the matches on TV which were shown on tape delay in the [...]
After finishing NBC’s first Olympic boxing broadcast my first thoughts are WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!
The 150 minute-long pugilist extravaganza aired last night starting at 2 a.m. on CNBC and Universal HD. Nearly all of the day’s matches were shown!
Who was announcing the events? The great Bob Papa accompanied by a subdued Teddy Atlas [...]
Quick thoughts on the Middleweight Olympic boxing draw.
Official Link to the Middleweight Draw
Middleweight (75kg / 165 lbs)
The first round of the Olympic middleweight tourney is over and we’ve already seen a rematch of a 2007 Chicago World Championship quarterfinal bout. Bronze winner Bakhtiyar Artayev from Kazakhstan began his difficult Beijing path by defeating Said Rachidi [...]
Quick thoughts on the Heavyweight Olympic boxing draw.
Official Link to the Light Heavyweight Draw
Light Heavyweight (81kg / 178 lbs)
Even before today’s first round Light Heavyweight session, the draw’s bottom quarter looked loaded; three of its eight competitors medaled at the 2007 World Championships in Chicago. After today two of those three competitors are gone, including [...]
The whole idea of constant Olympic boxing coverage made my head spin so I made I schedule of when every event happens and its corresponding eastern standard time beginning. This schedule reflects only the events themselves and NOT the television schedule. But if the first night’s coverage is any indication the first sessions [...]
The U.S. Boxing team got off to a good start in the ring as American middleweight Shawn Estrada coasted to a 10-2 victory over Argentina’s Ezequiel Maderna. Estrada jumped out to a solid 3-0 first round lead which he extended to a commanding 7-1 edge after the second.
Estrada will face Great Britain’s James Degale in [...]
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