Ireland’s Olympics boxers Paris 2024

Jack Marley has a career defining fight on his hands tonight, it's been a long time since we had a heavyweight that could hold his own at any level and Jack is the man. He's still only 21 but has a wealth of experience already, winning his first National Title at 11 years of age.

I fancy his chances tonight.

His opponent is ranked no. 2 seed for the Gold and has had 4 professional fights winning them all with 2 by KO.

He'll have his work cut out with Jack tonight though. Jack packs an awesome punch from both hands, is well able to take a serious hit on the button and his tenacious style will trouble any heavyweight on the planet.

Or they should ask to judge Wrestling contests instead! It must be terribly disheartening to train for 4 years to only be let down by questionable scoring and poor officiating.

I think both the Irish and UK fighters have definitely been on the receiving end of both refs and judges this time around.

I thought this was supposed to be all tidied up ???

Its very worrying and it makes me wonder about the future of the sport as far as the Olympics goes.

Those were the rules in theory. At least under the old 20 points system. I'm going back 15 years or so. A judge could also "override" a ref's warning and decide not to deduct a point. They had to still mark on the paper to show that they saw the ref's warning. I can't remember whether there were buttons for the computer scoring for it though. It might have only been used for paper scoring.

It might be changed now because I can't find it on any current official source. The below link was the only thing I could find which appears to be an old English ABA rulebook. But this would have been taken from AIBA (at the time). See page 64. You could box for years and not be aware it was an option. In practice though, the judge would follow the ref 99% of the time.

https://lionsamateurboxingclub.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/rules_of_boxing.pdf

What it seems to be now from the links I have found (albeit a very brief google so don't quote me on it) is that the judges don't deduct the warnings now directly and that there is one supervisor instead. So maybe they don't have discretion anymore

WasWas thinking that myself.

Does anyone know how many medals we're likely to win in boxing?

Kellie has one and if Jack wins tonight, then that's another.

Has the team underperformed? There has been a lot of first time eliminations….more than anyone anticipated.

I notice Team GB has had the exact same problem : five of their six boxers went out in the first round of matches.

There are a range of sports that are marked by judges. Gymnastics, ice skating, diving are rated by a selection of judges. We rarely hear of 'bad' decisions in these sports. Boxing seems to have a problem, IWT. Fairly clear Aoife won her fight.