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Paradox
08-23-2008, 04:59 AM
Something that people haven't mentioned is the quality of the boxers asian countries are fielding this Olympics. Besides the traditional boxing powers (Cuba, Ukraine, Russia) there was a very good showing early on from the central asian countries as well as Thailand and China.

I'd say Thailand is a traditional boxing country but they have been inconsistent in the Olympics at times. This time they have done great. 2 Boxers have made it into the gold medal rounds.

33 year old flyweight Somjit Jongjohor just won against his cuban opponent 8-2. I saw this match today and it was impressive. Nearly complete domination and no "controversy" or complaining by his opponent here. It's also this guy's last match and he won a gold medal. Nice end of a career.

So just like with a lot of other sports boxing is starting to shift more to the east as well. We all know about Manny Pacquiao from the Phillipines.
SunWuKong
08-23-2008, 08:44 AM
hate to risk steering things toward China again, but i just found out that three Chinese boxers are up for gold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics#Boxing

WTF?
Paradox
08-23-2008, 09:02 AM
hate to risk steering things toward China again, but i just found out that three Chinese boxers are up for gold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics#Boxing

WTF?

Zhou Shiming is the best out of the group. Olympic Bronze medalist in 2004 and gold medalist in the 2007 amateur world championships. He spanked his Irish opponent hard the other day..something like 15-0 it was barely even a match. Just wild flailing by the Irish dude while Zhou schooled him up and down the ring. Then the Irish dude complained about judging bias :rolleyes:.

Zhang Xiaoping is pretty good too. He pulled some great upsets in the world championships but not sure if he's consistent enough to walk away with gold.

Zhang Zhilei weakest out of the bunch. Super heavyweight though :biggrin: If he pulls out a win it'll be a big upset because his opponent is an amateur world championship gold medalist.
AliBabaIncorporated
08-23-2008, 07:42 PM
We watched Zhang Zhilei's fight with Ruslan Myrsatayev (Kazakhstan) at the office ... Myrsatayev is only like a few inches shorter, but his arms were so damn short and stubby, especially compared to Zhang ... everyone was cracking up the whole time, score was like 12-2 in the end.
Paradox
08-23-2008, 10:54 PM
China racks up light flyweight boxing gold Zhou Shiming won against the Mongolian dude after he retired after the injury. Pretty much what I thought the outcome would be minus the injury.
Paradox
08-24-2008, 01:21 AM
Oh damn son, 2nd boxing gold for China. Zhang Xiaoping. Guess he pulled the upset of his career this time.

Zhang Zhilei crashes and burns against his (much superior) Italian opponent. No surprise here either. He was the weakest of the bunch. Damn i'm good maybe I should start sports betting ;).
VV o n g B a
08-24-2008, 09:21 AM
just watched how zhou ximing won his gold. kinda underwhelming. too bad the mongolian guy got hurt.
kimpossible
08-24-2008, 02:25 PM
Can any of you gents tell us if they were good looking?
Paradox
08-24-2008, 04:53 PM
Can any of you gents tell us if they were good looking?

Since when were boxers ever good looking? Aside from Oscar de la hoya.
SunWuKong
08-24-2008, 05:04 PM
Can any of you gents tell us if they were good looking?

they're not. the pretty boys do sports like gymnastics and diving.
cloudzero
08-24-2008, 06:13 PM
when they lose like that last male diver, they aint pretty no moe