Comments on: Olympic Boxing: The Final Day http://www.total-mma.com/2008/08/25/olympic-boxing-the-final-day/ Completing the perspective on Mixed Martial Arts Fri, 18 May 2012 05:40:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Thomas Hackett http://www.total-mma.com/2008/08/25/olympic-boxing-the-final-day/#comment-12988 Thomas Hackett Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:38:01 +0000 http://www.total-mma.com/?p=461#comment-12988 Why we didn't get a replay of the knockout, but did see the "flamboyant" Italian coach jumping around in slo-mo, is a question for NBC to answer. Egan looked a little uncoordinated early on with that lazy jab, but I still thought he did enough to earn a win. He landed pretty well in rounds 3 & 4, and it ended up a pretty good bout overall. The big Dubliner was a good sportsman, too. Nice to see the "Real Fighting Irish" back on the podium, but it's sad to see the worst Olympics ever for USA Boxing... especially when there's just kind of a hopeless feeling there. When the US stank up the joint in basketball, you kind of knew a change was coming... but I think people are just tuning Olympic boxing out at this point, which is even more sad. This should be more fun than it is. Why we didn’t get a replay of the knockout, but did see the “flamboyant” Italian coach jumping around in slo-mo, is a question for NBC to answer.

Egan looked a little uncoordinated early on with that lazy jab, but I still thought he did enough to earn a win. He landed pretty well in rounds 3 & 4, and it ended up a pretty good bout overall. The big Dubliner was a good sportsman, too.

Nice to see the “Real Fighting Irish” back on the podium, but it’s sad to see the worst Olympics ever for USA Boxing… especially when there’s just kind of a hopeless feeling there. When the US stank up the joint in basketball, you kind of knew a change was coming… but I think people are just tuning Olympic boxing out at this point, which is even more sad. This should be more fun than it is.

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