BBC News: Boxing officials were paid bribe to fix results!!

Same thing , different location was what I thought. See here in the States professional boxing has been corrupt so long I am not sure anyone is still alive when boxing was clean! When Teddy, a boxing expert, says he saw the match one way and the officials call it another I Knew it was rigged!

This sort of thing shouldnt be happening in a wordwide sporting event such as the olympics, and all the athletes and judges take an olympix oath at the beggining of the games to play/judge the game properly, without cheating. As for the boxing I saw a re-run of the fight questioned and I was absolutly gob smacked with the result and I thought straight away something dodgy was going on. Hopefully more investigations will take place in the future to stop more of this stuff happening in the future but theres no way it can ever be fully stopped unless technology is the official, but im sure some clever so and so will find a wahy to rig that too!

The way I see this issue is that it begs for the intervention of modern technology to be implemented into the mandatory overhaul of the scoring system towards literal transparency. Sometimes, I feel that IOC could actually be the pacesetter for such an implementation since the Games is about fair play and true sportsmanship. Today, a lot of sports are begging for the implementation of modern technology where one of it will be the acceptance of live videos to assist judges and umpires officiating the matches.

I have to say that I didn't saw all the boxing fights, only 5 or 6 finals. I think this is a big accusation to do and unfortunately I'm seeing a lot of losers athlets accusing the winners of something illegal, like the accusations against the chinese swimmer, the jamaica team, the "conspiracy" for the brazilian gymnastic win..I'm not saying that maybe he is not right because I totally believe that some results in sports are pre determined, but he needs to prove it otherwise this just sounds a crying of loser.

I had heard earlier about the boxer from Azerbaijan getting knocked to the ground 6 times in a round and later being declared the winner of that round and that fight. That was definitely outrageous, but I know the boxer and the official who resided over the fight were disqualified. However, if there is an even larger match-fixing problem than this, then I think what little credibility Olympic boxing has now is almost or completely gone. There's been so many questionable decisions that I figured something was fishy. Now I wonder what they will do to try and remedy the situation, if anything.