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This Saturday, ZUFFA presents their best-ever lineup of semi-main events and undercard bouts.  UFC 88 is stacked top to bottom with compelling matchups in four weight divisions, many with title fight implications.  Though it lacks a title bout or the kind of transcendent matchup which would cap off a truly classic card, it’s a night of fights which, on paper, should not disappoint.  Our panel -

• CH: Chris Henderson
• AC: Alan Conceicao
• TH: Thomas Hackett
• DW: Dave Walsh
• LC: Lee Casebolt

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There’s still a haze in the air after the warfare that took place over two weeks in Beijing. Vasyl Lomachenko (pictured above) was perhaps the only soul to come out above it all, because everyone else took a beating. The judges, referees, officials, boxing as a sport, announcers…well, not many of the fighters took beatings. This was hardly the most action packed of tournaments, after all. So with the AIBA under fire from both the outside and within, trying to start up a pro league, and 270+ bouts having happened in the meantime, where to start? The scoring is the obvious place. While other subjective sports don’t allow for statistical comparison, amateur boxing does. Do the statistics say anything at all about whether or not there were issues with the Olympic Games?

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After over 270 fights, boxing at the Olympics finally wrapped up earlier this afternoon. Sadly, NBC showed very limited coverage of the last day’s gold medal matches, which comes as a surprise after such extensive coverage earlier. Still, three of the 6 bouts saw airtime in the US.

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The first day of gold medal finals saw both exciting performances and some sloppy brawls and one major surprise. We’ll review that action and preview tommorrow’s final day.

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Freshly edited late in the evening of the 22nd, the review also happens to include a guide of what to expect in tommorrow’s gold medal finals in 5 weight classes.

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Entering the Olympics, the one truly uncertain thing was the Cuban national team. After numerous attempted and successful defections by top fighters, it looked as if their grip on the world scene perhaps was coming to a close. That was the idea, anyways. Reality has returned and returned hard, and after the last qualifiers for the medal rounds were completed, Cuba dominance could hardly be denied.

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Roberto Cammarelle looks for Olympic Gold at Super Heavy. But is there an upset brewing?

The magic of the Olympic draw is the size. At the AIBA World Championships, anyone can send a fighter. Anyone. And they get thrown in a draw of 60-80 fighters and the tournament seems to never end. The Olympics knock that number in half. This gives you the very best, the sorta good, and people given spots because the committee was nice. Sometimes that is a recipe for surprises.

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(Rau’Shee Warren’s blunder potentially cost the US its best chance at a medal. What next?)

Unlike my compatriots in wrestling and judo, boxing has the slight issue when it comes to day to day coverage of taking forever. Judo is basically all over with and boxing has merely just begun, with another prelim round to go before we even hit quarterfinals. And to think, its roughly half as many fights as the World Championships. But I digress. Its been quite the storied week thus far.

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Its time for another weekly roundtable with the wonderful crew of Total-MMA.com. We try to focus on the upcoming EliteXC event as well as some of the fallout from this past week.

IL: Iain Liddle
JS: Jonathan Snowden
LC: Lee Casebolt
DW: Dave Walsh
CH: Chris Henderson
AC: Alan Conceicao

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This past Saturday marked the entry of what was hailed as the first independent sanctioning body in mixed martial arts, the World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts. Its been a source of controversy since inception among many MMA fans, a large number of whom fear what happened to boxing happening to their beloved sport. What seems odd is that very few fans of MMA understand how the so-called “alphabet soup” of sanctioning bodies came to exist, much less fully understand how it is that YAMMA could change the sport. Before answering those questions reasonably, let’s briefly look at boxing and its numerous sanctioning bodies.

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