first win for aus boxing team

[huricn]

Anthony Little won his fight last night 14:2....... great effort Anthony:deal

Paul Fleming got beat

[sambo1987]

Good work Little!

Flemming did well also, came within one point of the Frenchman and thought he might even take it, but credit to the Frenchman he was good.

[Rise Above]

Finally, I was beginning to wonder if we would win a fight at all.

[COULDHAVEBEEN]

Pre-games Quote (another thread):
Originally Posted by COULDHAVEBEEN
Let's hope someone like aboriginal lightweight ANTHONY LITTLE can bob up and surprise us all!


Unfortunately our first 4 competitors were eliminated in their first bouts.

But didn't Paul Fleming have a red-hot go against the Frenchman! Went at him from the first bell!

Anthony Little (LW) got through very well (14 points to 2), and now faces the Russian competitor, and we've still got Brad Pitt (HW) to come.

[WhataRock]

I was having a look through the draw and Boyd seems the best chance to bag 2wins.

He fights an african first up. Generally the africans are very strong but very raw, especially the central and southern africans. Some of the north africans, like the tunisians, egyptians and morrocans are a bit more suited to the ams.

If he wins he then takes on the winner of a morrocan and a columbian. But it is the morrocan's third olympics.

If he then somehow gets through that, he faces either an algerian( all african champ, who beat the morrocan), an irishman (who was an EU champ), a mexican or a mongolian (who I think was the silver medalist at the worlds) in the quarters. But no cubans or russians in sight until the medal rounds at least.

Im not basing this on anything really except that the other blokes seem to have the tougher draws.

[Kegsy]

I was having a look through the draw and Boyd seems the best chance to bag 2wins.

He fights an african first up. Generally the africans are very strong but very raw, especially the central and southern africans. Some of the north africans, like the tunisians, egyptians and morrocans are a bit more suited to the ams.

If he wins he then takes on the winner of a morrocan and a columbian. But it is the morrocan's third olympics.

If he then somehow gets through that, he faces either an algerian( all african champ, who beat the morrocan), an irishman (who was an EU champ), a mexican or a mongolian (who I think was the silver medalist at the worlds) in the quarters. But no cubans or russians in sight until the medal rounds at least.

Im not basing this on anything really except that the other blokes seem to have the tougher draws.
Boyd's draw does sound ok.
Hope he can rise to the occasion.:deal

[huricn]

I was having a look through the draw and Boyd seems the best chance to bag 2wins.

He fights an african first up. Generally the africans are very strong but very raw, especially the central and southern africans. Some of the north africans, like the tunisians, egyptians and morrocans are a bit more suited to the ams.

If he wins he then takes on the winner of a morrocan and a columbian. But it is the morrocan's third olympics.

If he then somehow gets through that, he faces either an algerian( all african champ, who beat the morrocan), an irishman (who was an EU champ), a mexican or a mongolian (who I think was the silver medalist at the worlds) in the quarters. But no cubans or russians in sight until the medal rounds at least.

Im not basing this on anything really except that the other blokes seem to have the tougher draws.


good draw can get is needed to get thru

when i first started boxing i use to sparr Luke and u could see back then the he had skills, but never won a aus title till zappa turned pro.
zappa beat luke 4 or 5 times in the ams

[Watto]

Good Result lets hope he can go one further