Comments Thread For: Uzbekistan, Bakhodir Jalolov dominate Olympics, prompting debate about pros

[BoxingUpdates]

The final four boxing gold medals were handed out at the 2024 Paris Olympics Games, but controversy took center stage due to the involvement of professionals and gender issues.
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[anonymous2.0]

his professional status raises questions about the integrity of the modern Olympics and the concept of allowing pros to compete against amateurs

Nearly every nation that can sends their pros into the Olympics I dunno why you gotta point fingers at Jalolov and boxing in particular. And I may be wrong, but I think the record of pros in the Olympics is still a losing one.

[mattr]

Jalalalov is a *****, bullying much lesser experienced amateurs.
About time he faced a real challenge in the pros and stop robbing young amateurs of the chance at gold.

[slimPickings]

Jalolov and all the other professional fighters who competed at this Olympics SUCK!!! The powers that be that allowed this suck even more. And please bring back the head gear. It was not fun watching fighters handicapped by a cut not completely healed . Feels like the clowns who run professional boxing run boxing in the Olympics.

[HeadShots]

Jalolov KO's AJ and Fury tomorrow. Ded fkn srs.


6'7. fast. south paw with 1 punch KO power.

[messimania]

The journalist should turn the question around. Apart from that so many pros lost in Paris, including WBC world champ Beatriz Ferreira, who lost to an ”amateur”, Jalolov couldn’t stop any of his four ”amateur” opponents. However, in the pros he is 14-0 with 14 KO’s. Isn’t it more dangerous for the pros to fight him than the amateurs? He should be banned from the pros as he is knocking them all out.
The Olympics is for the best athletes period. The concept of amateurs and pros disappeared long time ago when sport became more and more professional.

[BigZ44]

Jalolov is a beast and the best bet to be the future of the HW division imo, now that the Olympics are over, I hope he can start getting some serious fights soon. How about Jalolov vs Wallin?

[pollywog]

26 yr old up and coming Pasifikan Teremoana Teremoana will smash Jalolov in the pros.

[Southpaw16]

A couple points here:

a) The reason why Jalolov was so dominant was because no other pro cared enough to put in on the line and go to the olympics. He should be commended for this not vilified.

b) Everyone convinced Jalolov is the future of the division, watch his fight against Termoana Junior. He didn’t dominate that one by any stretch. Jalolov is what? 30? He wasn’t an olympic gold medalist in his early 20s like let’s say AJ. He’s older than Daniel Dubois, older than Jared Anderson. To put this into perspective, Tony Yoka won his first olympic gold at a younger age then when Jalolov snagged his first, and Yoka definitely could have gone back for gold number two.

[Boxing2695]

Soon as I saw he was going back to the Olympics I knew he was going to win it again... The super heavyweight division at amatuer isnt as stacked as it once was