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[Nick Bullseye]

I have been said that there was an incident with a Thai boxer at the box final during Olympic games. A Thai was competing against a Chinese. There should have been an unfair decision against the Thai boxer.

Can it be seen on YouTube? Can someone please point me to it? Thanks.

[Arsonist]

Yeah watched that fight, it was a poor decision and the Thai boxer should consider himself rather unlucky not have won the Gold Medal.

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[Nick Bullseye]

The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

[trousersnake]

The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

The result was a disgrace. I was outraged watching. the whole crowd boo'ed the lad from China out of the ring. I love boxing when it is good but this result reminds me why the sport has no credibility

With it being such a disgrace the Thai boxer was still a genteman afterwards.

http://www.bangkokpo...t-kaew-for-gold

Chinese boxer, judges, referee all beat Kaew for gold

LONDON : The crowd booed and international announcers openly criticised yet another unjust boxing decision that prevented Kaew Pongprayoon from winning a gold medal Sunday morning.

[FRONT242]

I think in an attempt to lessen controversy and cheating, Olympic boxing actually changed the scoring system into something similar to TaeKwonDo - points fighting.
You get a point for every blow that connects. It does not matter how effective the blow was, as long as it connects its a point. So a guy who's simply jabbing away (and connecting) can easily win over a guy who's eating jabs but delivering fewer power shots.