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[KnightOwl]

Boxing/Wrestling





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Sat 28th July - Sun 12th August

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Sun 5th Aug - Sun 12th Aug

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[KnightOwl]

Saturday 28th July

Boxing - Men's Bantam-weight - 13:30 & 20:30
Boxing - Men's Middle-weight - 15:00 & 22:00

[KnightOwl]

BOXING (22:30 - 23:26): Anthony Joshua, men's super-heavyweight

Joshua, 22, made a huge impact with silver at last year's World Championships in Baku and has a high-profile opening bout against Cuba's Erislandy Savon, nephew of the former three-time Olympic heavyweight champion Felix Savon.
Quote from BBC Sport Olympics Day 5 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19071340) page.

[KnightOwl]

BOXING (14:15, 14:30): Nicola Adams, Natasha Jonas

Both our ladies are through to the quarter finals, Nicola in the Women's Fly (51kg) and Natasha in the Women's Light (60kg), and this afternoon will fight for the chance of a guaranteed bronze medal. In Olympic Boxing, the two semi-final losers don't have to fight each other for bronze, they both get one.

Nicola faces Stoyka Pertova of Bulgaria, and Natasha has a mammoth task in fron of her when she takes on Irish gold-medal hope Katie Taylor.

[traveller7]

Freddie Evans won his quarter finals and is through to the semis with a guaranteed bronze.

[KnightOwl]

BOXING (13:45-14:00): Nicola Adams, women's flyweight

Leeds flyweight Nicola Adams has been the most successful of Britain's trio as women's boxing makes its Olympic debut. With a bronze medal guaranteed, she takes on Mary Kom for a place in the gold medal match. Kom is one of India's sporting greats as a five-time world champion. Light-welterweight Tom Stalker is Britain's other fighter in action on Wednesday. He is up against Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg of Mongolia (22:00), with at least a bronze guaranteed for the winner.

Quote from BBC Sport Olympics Day 12 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19166475) page.

[davech]

Nicola Adams is through to the final, winning 11-6! She beat Kom pretty convincingly there.

She was cheered on by David Cameron and Amir Khan.

[traveller7]

Good for her hope she does well in the final!

[KnightOwl]

BOXING (16:30-16:41): Nicola Adams, women's flyweight

London 2012 is the first Olympics to include women's boxing in the programme. After defeating Mary Kom in the semi-finals, GB's Nicola Adams has the chance to become the sport's first-ever Olympic champion when she faces three-time world champion Ren Cancan of China.
Quote from BBC Sport Olympics Day 13 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19185064) page.

[KnightOwl]

First ever Olympic women's boxing gold-medal bout is just starting - featuring Great Britain's Nicola Adams

[davech]

Nicola has destroyed her opponent 16-7. The first women's boxing gold medal goes to Britain!

[VamosVixs]

Well done Nicola! :gold:

[rondun]

Great for her - & the Irish too, they nearly blew the roof off the place!
Loved the comment about Nicola's mum still worrying about her when she's on a night out!

[KnightOwl]

BOXING (14:00-22:56): Team GB Men

Four British men have the chance to guarantee at least silver medals as the semi-finals take place at the ExCel. Bantamweight Luke Campbell faces Japan's Satoshi Shimizu (14:00), welterweight Fred Evans is up against Ukraine's Taras Shelestyuk (21:30), middleweight Anthony Ogogo takes on Esquiva Falcao Florentino of Brazil (15:00), and super-heavyweight Anthony Joshua meets Ivan Dychko of Kazakhstan (22:30).
Quote from BBC Sport Olympics Day 14 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19200494) page.

[Sallydaisy]

BOXING - EVANS GUARANTEED SILVER

Fred Evans (from Wales) heads into the final round, three minutes away from a guaranteed silver..
Fred Evans records a 11-10 win over Taras Shelestyuk to move into Sunday's final and guarantee at least a silver medal. Of course, he could well win gold...



BBC liveupdates here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19084356)

[davech]

So, we still have at least 2 medals to come!

[davech]

Make that 3. Plus the 2 bronzes we're already guaranteed.

[KnightOwl]

BOXING (20:45): Luke Campbell, men's bantamweight

The crowd will be something to behold at the ExCel Arena when Britain's Luke Campbell takes on John Joe Nevin of Ireland in the bantamweight (56kg) final. Both teams already have one boxing gold each, through Nicola Adams and Katie Taylor, and the atmosphere for each final was a match for any professional fight. Campbell and Nevin have met twice before, with one win apiece.
Quote from BBC Sport Olympics Day 15 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19218216) page.

[Hawkeye]

Gold for bantamweight Luke Campbell in the boxing!

[KnightOwl]

Wow! Thanks for posting - too much to watch so I would totally have missed this - way to go Luke!!

[VamosVixs]

Woo hoo! :gold:

[Hawkeye]

On BBC1 now.

[-J-]

oh I wonder who is gonna win this ?
:grrr:

[VamosVixs]

:lol:

[traveller7]

Didnt watch this cos of clashing with diving but well done to Team GB for their boxing success.

[KnightOwl]

BOXING (14:15, 15:15): Fred Evans, men's welterweight; Anthony Joshua, men's super-heavyweight

European welterweight champion Fred Evans is already only the second Welshman to win an Olympic medal, having secured bronze, but only Serik Sapiyev of Kazakhstan stands between him and gold. The boxing programme will end with the super-heavyweight final between Britain's Anthony Joshua and Italy's defending Olympic champion, Roberto Cammarelle
Quote from BBC Sport Olympics Day 16 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19220653) page.

[Hawkeye]

Anthony Joshua wins gold!

[davech]

I didn't think he'd done quite enough, tbh, but it was 18-18 in the end. How does count-back work in boxing?

[-J-]

I didn't think he'd done quite enough, tbh, but it was 18-18 in the end. How does count-back work in boxing?best score round by round working backwards ie best last round

[davech]

Italy have appealed the result...

[davech]

The appeal has been rejected and Joshua has definitely won the gold!

[Alis]

Well done Anthony Joshua. We just need one of our girls to take gold in the Modern Pentathalon for us to make it 30 Gold!

[Hawkeye]

best score round by round working backwards ie best last roundI'm not sure what it is exactly, but it's not that.

[KnightOwl]

The commentators said something about the normal scoring being an average of judges that press their little judgy-buttons at approximately the same time, but that countback includes all the individual scores rather than averaging them - not entirely sure I follow, but it makes a certain amount of sense....

[VamosVixs]

Well done Fred :silver: and well done Anthony! :gold: