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even more fixed than an Adrian McPherson game.Roy Jones beats a South Korean bloody in the 1988 South Korea Olympics. Loses by decision.....

Jones represented the United States at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games where he won the silver medal. Jones dominated his opponents, never losing a single round on route to the final. His participation in the final proved to be hugely controversial when he lost a highly disputed 3-2 decision in the final. Jones lost to South Korean fighter Park Si-Hun, despite pummeling Park for three rounds, landing 86 punches to Park's 32. Allegedly, Park himself apologized to Jones afterwards. One judge shortly thereafter admitted the decision was a mistake, and all three judges voting against Jones were eventually suspended. An official IOC investigation concluding in 1997 found that 3 of the judges were wined and dined by Korean officials, but the IOC still officially stands by the decision. Jones was awarded the Val Barker trophy as the best stylistic boxer of the 1988 games. The incident, along with another highly disputed decision against American Michael Carbajal in the same games, led Olympic organizers to establish a new scoring system for Olympic boxing.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=o0cNugcG6zg
 
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There always seem to be a couple rather obviously shady fixs in every Olympics.
 

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Any video of this?
 

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I would say that when most fights go to a decision there always seems to be a judge's scorecard where I think to myself, "were we watching the same fight?"
 

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The Judges choices that night

A: Jones Wins , We all get killed.

B: Park Si Hun Wins , We all live ..

We'll take B
 

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Found it NM.

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Im sure their were some Asian gamblers who knew what was going to happen who cleaned up on this one.
 

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My scorecard:

1st: 10-9 Jones (didn't do alot but was clearly better)

2nd: 10-9 Jones (should have been 10-10 but because of the IMO BS standing 8 ya gotta give it to Jones)

3rd: 10-9 Jones (could have made a case for 10-8)

Gotta say that was some messed up scoring.
 

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part of the problem was the crowd going nuts when the Korean took big swings and grazed Jones or Jones outright blocked the punches with his glove.


and at the same time, Jones was clearly not getting nearly enough credit for how many times he hit the korean flush, which was a lot


heres another video


http://youtube.com/watch?v=UsgY99FtWsU
 

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Speaking of fixes, Hagler beat Sugar Ray.
 

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Im not buying the there was some "wining and dining" excuse offered. Something else is afoot here. Somebody paid those judges. Somebody got to them and apparently they got away with it and evidence wasnt found.

fixing sure would be easier to win at than handicapping. I mean I watched that tape again and its a slow stiff versus a great boxer just getting schooled.
 

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