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Old 13-03-2018, 10:57 AM #1
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Default Rio report claims Michael Conlan's 2016 Olympic fight was fixed

Russia again So obvious that fight was fixed though, the guy had to withdraw from the next fight because he was damaged so badly but he won hhmmm




Irish management were told his chances were gone, claims explosive Rio 2016 report

An official Rio Olympics report from Irish boxing team manager Joe Hennigan claims that Irish management were informed during the boxing competition that fights at the games had been fixed.

It further claims that the medal hopes of one of our brightest prospects, Michael Conlan, were “gone” before he stepped into the ring.

The alarming claims were made in a three-page report, verified as authentic and seen by The Irish Times.

Hennigan, who was subsequently voted in as vice-president of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association in 2017, was given the information regarding fixing a day before Conlan was due to fight Russian opponent Vladmir Nikitin on August 16th. At the time Conlon was the World Amateur Bantamweight champion.

Hennigan says in his report that when he and others went to the athletes' village – following the shock defeat of lightweight defending champion Katie Taylor on Monday 15th – Zauri Antia, head coach of the Irish team, informed him of what he had been told about Conlan’s bout being a lost cause.

Antia is a native Georgian, who can speak Russian. He was, says Hennigan, told by one of the Russian coaches that Conlan’s medal and others had already been decided. The Russian coach in question has not been named in the report.

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Having been told the bout was already fixed, Hennigan describes his efforts to locate the then Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) president Pat Hickey in order to inform him and try to protect the interests of the Irish boxers.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/oth...22913?mode=amp
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I saw that fight and I've got to say that I'm not surprised that it was fixed.
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I saw that fight and I've got to say that I'm not surprised that it was fixed.
It was ridiculous, there was another fight as well for the gold(involving another Russian) iirc that was as bad or even worse. It's absolutely disgusting, these people spend 4 years training so hard only to be robbed like that. I'm glad Michael Conlon spoke his mind after as well. I wouldn't watch boxing in the Olympics anymore after what happened there. Both him and Katie quit after it and have turned professional instead
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It was ridiculous, there was another fight as well for the gold(involving another Russian) iirc that was as bad or even worse. It's absolutely disgusting, these people spend 4 years training so hard only to be robbed like that. I'm glad Michael Conlon spoke his mind after as well. I wouldn't watch boxing in the Olympics anymore after what happened there. Both him and Katie quit after it and have turned professional instead
Tbh the main issue with Boxing is that the judges can get bribed into giving out a certain outcome, and it looks worse when it's at such a big event such as the Olympics.

I'm glad that those two decided to carry on through a different avenue because if it was me personally I'd refuse to take part in the Sport ever again.
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Tbh the main issue with Boxing is that the judges can get bribed into giving out a certain outcome, and it looks worse when it's at such a big event such as the Olympics.

I'm glad that those two decided to carry on through a different avenue because if it was me personally I'd refuse to take part in the Sport ever again.
Professional boxing does seem to be better decision wise tbf (although nothing is ever fool proof)
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