Boxing WB World Championships 2025

[copravolley 544]

3 minutes ago, avlar said:

I would like to see another scoring system. This 10:9 is really something useless.

 

2008 system was not ideal but it was more clear and competitive. That were the times when the last round had sense.
The real correction it needed was making knockdowns more valuable.

In my opinion, this strange sports should be kick off on the Olympic program. Who needs it? Only Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan benefit from it, as they've been racking up a ton of medals lately, and 20 years ago, they weren't even that strong in amateur boxing. I wonder if these countries have such a strong lobby within the IOC, or if someone stronger, like Russia, is simply behind them?

Edited September 12, 2025 by copravolley

[Monzanator 4,798]

Agata Kaczmarska dominated the much taller Yeldana Talipova 5-0 and makes it 3/3 for the Polish women

[Monzanator 4,798]

1 minute ago, copravolley said:

In my opinion, this strange sports should be kick off on the Olympic program. Who needs it? Only Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan benefit from it, as they've been racking up a ton of medals lately, and 20 years ago, they weren't even that strong in amateur boxing. I wonder if these countries have such a strong lobby within the IOC, or if someone stronger, like Russia, is simply behind them?

 

The rise of MMA has drained the boxing talent pool and the former Soviet Union is still doing fine overall. Generally 'traditional' combat sports have suffered in popularity but it's not like IOC has to only keep events that are popular in USA and Western Europe   Most complains I hear are about weightlifting or wrestling so two sports that have historically been very poor for Western Europe, now add in boxing where USA has lost its Olympic powerhouse status due to athletes turning pro much earlier and the picture is complete.

[copravolley 544]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics

 

Somehow I don't see Uzbekistan at the top of the medal table here...

[copravolley 544]

I'm sure Borat is happy with this, btw. Maybe he's the one lobbying for it at the IOC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVRCyELQnSw

 

[Adriano 625]

11 hours ago, copravolley said:

In professional boxing, you usually have a situation where the challenger has to be better than the champion to beat him. Some time ago, to beat, for example, Klitschko, as a challenger, you had to do something extra to take the title. But here I see it's quite the opposite: a boxer with big name- actually World Championship medals arrives and loses in the first round in Paris after a controversial result. I don't understand it. This current Olympic boxing is some strange hybrid of old amateur boxing and professional boxing: even the scoring shows it. Personally, I think we should have stayed with the amateur boxing of the early 21st century with its scoring machines, etc., or simply removed it from the Olympic program, because currently, it's a simply joke, not a real sport. Some strange hybrid of who knows what and what was created, divided into several federations: chaos with judges, chaos with seeding, etc. Why?

I agree with seeding - this is simple to solve.For me it should be more judges (7/9) at WC OG level to minimalise influence of 1 judge. Sometimes I see nationality / continental scheme. I see also that some judges prefer work on legs static boxing and other like more active dynamic boxing. And we often have split decision.  It is new olympic cycle new names new weights and absences. Next years will be crucial but we need ranking as SOON as possible.  Old scoring was terrible.

Edited September 13, 2025 by Adriano

[copravolley 544]

Typical for Italy mentality: defeating the clear favorite in a 1/4 (Charaabi vs. the Turkish woman) and then losing to someone much weaker This isn't our sport and without two main stars, we had no right to win anything significant: only one bronze medal in an Olympic class is a failure. Either something changes in this sport in Italy, or I can't see our future in good colours. We certainly can't give up our biggest stars and focus on mediocre people who will never win anything, like Lenzi, Charaabi, Nicoli etc.

Edited September 13, 2025 by copravolley

[hoversaBR 643]

Yuri Falcão dominated Erislandy Alvarez. 

 

 

And Cuba ends up without a gold medal at a world championship for the first time.

[copravolley 544]

2 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

Yuri Falcão dominated Erislandy Alvarez. 

 

 

And Cuba ends up without a gold medal at a world championship for the first time.

They failed in boxing just as they did in volleyball... I wonder if without communism they would have been much better at sports with their potential?

[clemsonbeav 232]

US still with one athlete hanging in there, and she made it to the Gold medal bout.  Yoseline Perez  will take on Huang Hsiao-Wen  in the W 54kg bout tomorrow.  She won the Youth Worlds in 2022, but this will be her first Senior Worlds medal (and the only one for  in this championship).