Chicago 2007 WC.....

walshb

Action is under way in Chicago. Below is the AIBA link with all the participants and live scoring. Very effective website I must say. The Irish lads so far have a decent draw. I haven't checked them all, but Egan, Donovan, Sutherland and both Joyce's seem to have
avoided the strong countries for their first fights. Like I always say, there is NO such thing
as an easy draw in amateur boxing....

http://www.aiba.org/

The site is handy to navigate through.

Are the Cubans fighting in these championships?

I haven't been able to locate a CUB fighter from the draws...

I have scrolled through looking for 'CUB', and I cannot locate any....

Here's a simple link to the draw

http://www.worldboxingchicago.org/results

telecaster

The Cubans withdrew because they are worried about their boxers doing a runner once they get to the States.


There's a story here about it

Undermines the entire championship of course. I remember watching the Cubans in Belfast when the c'ships were held there - incredible talents.

Any tv channels picked this up in these parts? would be a sin not to see a bit of action from it.

Seems John Joe Joyce took a pasting in his opener.....report here

Dodge

Irish Draw (up until Olympic qualification) for those left



Patrick Barnes - Light Fly
1 - v North Korea
2 - v Iran
3 - v Domincan Republic/Jamaica

Conor Ahern - Fly
1 - v Belarus
2 v v China/Ghana
3 v macedonia/Ukraine/Puerto Rico/Mongolia

Ryan Lindberg - Bantam
1 - Puerto Rico
2 - Kyrgistan/Botswana

David Oliver Joyce - feather
1 - v Brazil
2 - v Peru/Czech
3 - v Slovalia/China/Bosnia/Georgia

Eric Donovan - Light
1 - v Hungary
2 - v Dominican Rep/Israel
3 - v Argentina/Italy/Spain/japan

Roy Sheehan - Welter
1 - v South Korea
2 - v Hungary/Azerbajan
3 - v China/Uzbekistan/Trinidad/Australia

Darren Sutherland - Middle
1 - v Dominica
2 - v Armenia/Sweden
3 - v Romania/India/England/Venezuela

Ken Egan - Light Heavy
1 - v Virgin Islands
2 - v Greece/Ecuador
3 - v Azerbajan/Croatia

John Sweeney - Heavy
1 - v Serbia
2 - v Aruba/Russia
QF - v Latvia/Ukraine/Azerbajan/Colombia

Cathal McMonagle - Super Heavy
1 - Russia
2 - Virgin Islands/Azerbajan
QF - 8 countries including USA

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Very tough for the heavy lads. Egan and Sutherland have real chances of making olympics IMO. Lindberg, Sweeney, McMonagle received byes in 1st prelim round

walshb

telecaster wrote: »

The Cubans withdrew because they are worried about their boxers doing a runner once they get to the States.


There's a story here about it

Undermines the entire championship of course. I remember watching the Cubans in Belfast when the c'ships were held there - incredible talents.

Any tv channels picked this up in these parts? would be a sin not to see a bit of action from it.

Seems John Joe Joyce took a pasting in his opener.....report here

It's like having a world cup in soccer without Brazil....

walshb

Possibly Ireland's classiest boxer loses in the first rd

http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/wch_chicago/C65B074.pdf

That's two from Athy out in the first rd...

Four of the five judges all saw it roughly the same and in favor
of the Brazilian. The other judge had Joyce the winner by 2 points.
This computer scoring sucks!!!!

Dodge

Apparently Sutherland has received a walkover, and is through to 2nd round

Dodge

Updated

Dodge wrote: »

Patrick Barnes - Light Fly
1 - v North Korea
2 - v Iran
3 - v Domincan Republic/Jamaica

Conor Ahern - Fly
1 - v Belarus
2 v v China/Ghana
3 v macedonia/Ukraine/Puerto Rico/Mongolia

Ryan Lindberg - Bantam
1 - Puerto Rico
2 - Kyrgistan/Botswana

Eric Donovan - Light
1 - v Hungary
2 - v Dominican Rep/Israel
3 - v Argentina/Italy/Spain/japan

Roy Sheehan - Welter
1 - v South Korea
2 - v Hungary/Azerbajan
3 - v China/Uzbekistan/Trinidad/Australia

Darren Sutherland - Middle
1 - v Dominica Won by W/O
2 - v Armenia
3 - v India/Venezuela

Ken Egan - Light Heavy
1 - v Virgin Islands
2 - v Greece/Ecuador
3 - v Azerbajan/Croatia

John Sweeney - Heavy
1 - v Serbia
2 - v Aruba/Russia
QF - v Latvia/Ukraine/Azerbajan/Colombia

Cathal McMonagle - Super Heavy
1 - Russia
2 - Virgin Islands/Azerbajan
QF - 8 countries including USA

Up today (in order) we have
Patrick Barnes, Conor Ahern, Eric Donovan, Ken Egan, Roy Sheehan

walshb

Barnes is doing very well as I speak

He wins fairly comfortably, brilliant!!!!

Four of the five score Barnes the winner by a decent
margin and one judge has his opponent the winner by 36-29.
Again, proof that this system is not close to being perfect

walshb

Ahern is due in the ring very shortly in his
51kg bout (139)

walshb

Ahern is beaten....

Again 4 judges had Ahern losing convincingly and one judge had Ahern the winner.
Very strange

Dodge

Update on those left...

Dodge wrote: »

Patrick Barnes - Light Fly
1 - v North Korea Won 33-19
2 - v Iran
3 - v Domincan Republic/Jamaica

Ryan Lindberg - Bantam
1 - Puerto Rico
2 - Kyrgistan/Botswana

Eric Donovan - Light
1 - v Hungary Won 39-22
2 - v Dominican Rep
3 - v Italy/Japan

Roy Sheehan - Welter
1 - v South Korea Won 22:7
2 - v Azerbajan
3 - v China/Australia

Darren Sutherland - Middle
1 - v Dominica Won by W/O
2 - v Armenia
3 - v India/Venezuela

Ken Egan - Light Heavy
1 - v Virgin Islands RSCOS 2 2:00 (21-1)
2 - v Ecuador
3 - v Azerbajan/Croatia

John Sweeney - Heavy
1 - v Serbia
2 - v Aruba/Russia
QF - v Latvia/Ukraine/Azerbajan/Colombia

Cathal McMonagle - Super Heavy
1 - Russia
2 - Virgin Islands/Azerbajan
QF - 8 countries including USA

Up today we have; Ryan Lindberg & John Sweeney

JMCD

Good to see Ken Egan winning...One of our best hopes as well as Darren Sutherland....hope they do well and Best of luck to the rest of the lads aswell.

walshb

Donova is thru in the 60kg division. He won by 39-22 I think

Dodge

yep, as above in my post. scores in bold in updated box

yomchi

Latest from Rte Sport

http://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2007/1026/chicago.html

walshb

Dodge wrote: »

yep, as above in my post. scores in bold in updated box

Yeah, just seen that now Dodge...

The world boxing site is amazing.
You should all check out the live
result threads they have, as well as the
actual contest sheets which
detail every rd scored...

Dodge

walshb wrote: »

The world boxing site is amazing.
You should all check out the live
result threads they have, as well as the
actual contest sheets which
detail every rd scored...

Yep, amazing amount of stats etc on both sites you listed above

walshb

Dodge wrote: »

Yep, amazing amount of stats etc on both sites you listed above

They are both from the AIBA site....just links.
Makes following the championships a lot
better because of the intimate details of each fight...

walshb

Lindberg is beaten in RD 3, Outscored......

johnathan woss

John Sweeney beat his Serb opponent (ref stopped it in the fourth round) and now faces a Russian on Tuesday.

I was looking at the team on the iaba.ie website and it's amazing that four of the boxers are from the one club (St. Michael's Athy).

Dodge

Those who remain (and now their road to a medal)

Patrick Barnes - Light Fly
1 - v North Korea Won 33-19
2 - v Iran Won rscos r3 1:11 (30-10)
3 - v Japan
QF - v Russia/China

Eric Donovan - Light
1 - v Hungary Won 39-22
2 - v Dominican Rep Won 21-4
3 - v Italy
Q/F - V Armenia/Philipinnes

Darren Sutherland - Middle
1 - v Dominica Won by W/O
2 - v Armenia Won 22-20
3 - v Venezuela
Q/F v USA/Germany

Ken Egan - Light Heavy
1 - v Virgin Islands RSCOS 2 2:00 (21-1)
2 - v Ecuador Won 16-10
3 - v Croatia
Q/f - v Fance/Uzebekistan

John Sweeney - Heavy
1 - Bye
2 - v Serbia Won RSC 1.54 r4
3 - v Russia
QF - v Ukraine/Azerbajan

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Donovan is fighting a man who stopped him in the EU championships in Dublin, and is ranked 3rd in the world (ABA rankings). Donovan beat him once previously. Egan is fighting a world silver medallist. In the ABA european ranklings the Croatian is 2nd and Egan is 4th Sutherland is fighting the South american champion. Its obviously going to be very tough for Sweeney. Have no idea about Barnes' opponent

walshb

Sutherland and Sweeney are GONE!!!!

Dodge

Sweeney was to be expected. Shame about Sutherland, just hope he makes it through one of the other events now (much harder than in the past IMO)

wardyeire

well apart from the Chinese judge the scores were well in favour of Blanco over Sutherland. As for Sweeney i think he did very well to go the distance against the Russian.:)

yomchi

Pity about Sutherland, at least there's still plenty of time for him to go again.

jayroyal

paddy barnes is 5 to 1 up after first round

jayroyal

now he's up by 13 3 after second think we have our fisrt boxer through

jayroyal

in the fourth 18 4 up

ROCKMAN

shown a few of the fights now on sky sports 3 (not live)

wardyeire

congrat to Paddy Barnes on qualifing for the Olympics and good luck to the lads in action later tonight:D:D

sligobhoy67

Sutherland looked very sluggish in the last two rounds and couldnt handle the reach of the Venezulan - pity.

Good to see Joe Murray of Moss Side, Manchester go through - on of the boys at works said to me that his parents were Irish - not sure if its true but most white people in Miss Side are 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation Irish so could be

alannologo

does anybody know how ken egan got on??

Dodge

Egan and Donovan lost.

Barnes our only olympic qualifier from this tournament

Dodge

Barnes was beaten 22:8

Still a good tournament for him

finbarrk

Does this mean that Barnes will be our only boxer in Beijing?

Dodge

finbarrk wrote: »

Does this mean that Barnes will be our only boxer in Beijing?

Nope, he's the only boxer qualified so far. There are two further european qualification tournaments. I think a total of 8 europeans can box at each weight so the amount of places on offer depends on how many europeans book their spots at this tournament. In Sutherland's middleweight division 3 europeans have qualified. In Egan's Lightheavy division 5 europeans are through

walshb

An excellent win for England's Frankie Gavin in the 60kg division which
seen him beat Tischenko in the semi final and an Italian in the final.
Tischenko was considered the best amateur of them all....

megadodge

Is Tischenko the redheaded Russian who won the feather gold in the last Olympics ?

If so, I always found it surprising he won so much, he just didn't look exceptional, but then again there's no arguing with his record.

walshb

Yes he did win the 57kg Olympic title and I too didn't regard him as brilliant. He was very good obviously, but a little too overrated by the pundits.
IMO, Khan would have been way too much for Alexy.....

Gavin is very good, but a notch below the 17 year old Olympic Khan.....