Roy Jones Jr 88 Seoul Olympics Options

[darren_simion]

Since the Olympics is here, I was busy rewatching old Olympic boxing vids on the interwebs and stumbled upon the 88 boxing finals between Jones and Park- which was one of the worst boxing robberies Ive ever seen.

My question is, what was the Korean public's reaction towards that incident. Were there even a public clamor? I know that happened two decades ago but I just wanna know from those that remember how the public reacted towards that.

[taebum]

Many Korean people told it was very wrong decision and still now.
The gold medal winner Park was very much ridiculed by Korean people too and he even considred to commit a suicide after suffering from social phobia.

He was recently covered by Korean medias on his living after 1988 olympic as international medias picked his gold medal was one of the worst decisions in olympic history.

[temuchin]

Since the Olympics is here, I was busy rewatching old Olympic boxing vids on the interwebs and stumbled upon the 88 boxing finals between Jones and Park- which was one of the worst boxing robberies Ive ever seen.

My question is, what was the Korean public's reaction towards that incident. Were there even a public clamor? I know that happened two decades ago but I just wanna know from those that remember how the public reacted towards that.

Dunno what was the reaction of blacks and other Americans watching Angelo Musone, Redzep Redzepovski, Shawn O'Sullivan, Lotfi Ayed, Francesco Damiani, and Kim Dong-kil get robbed by Americans in Los Angeles '84?

The hometown LA Times beatwriter who covered Kim Dong-kil's bout with Jerry Page in 1984, was incredulous that the judges gave the victory to the American over a clearly superior Kim.

those same Olympics AMERICANS sitting ringside BOOED the decision to give a fight to African American Tyrell Biggs over Damiani who threw more punches and was the aggressor the entire fight. BBC commentator Harry Carpenter announced "..it the worst boxing decision in all my years of boxing commentating."

and that wasn't even the most biased decision in 84. the Tillman/Musone decision was roundly mocked in every American paper covering the Olympics. AMERICANS courtside booed the Tillman decision as well.

darren I wonder, other than paternalism and racism why you'd even ask what the "Korean public's reaction" was towards that incident as if they'd be complicit because they're Korean? just like anyone they would think crappy decisions are crappy. I also wonder darren how you feel about Kwang-Soo Oh split decision to Michael Carbajal in Seoul prior to the Roy Jones fight which was a huge travesty? I mean I'm sure you actually know about some of these other controversies... surely you wouldn't be so ignorant that you hear about 1 fight 25 years ago and come in to talk $hit about Koreans as if we as Americans haven't done the same and more?

I'll tell you one thing from an American perspective. There is no peep of shame today on the part of African American fight fans or even white fight fans about 84. There's a lot of crying and noise after 88 though. Even though the crap the Koreans pulled in 1988 was a DIRECT RESPONSE and defense against the Americans possibly rigging $hit with the IOC again in 1988 as we did in 1984. Koreans on the other hand feel bad about 88. Who's the bigger people?

one good thing that Koreans do have over Americans, especially black Americans is that they always turn the spotlight on themselves before anyone else. I'll tell you what, a Korean wouldn't be asking how Americans responded in 84 before they considered what they themselves did to dishonor themselves in 88.

... unlike us in the USA where we b!tch and point fingers at everyone else, and don't even ever think of considering at our own conduct (or really even knowing or caring about $hit that we've done). it's like Americans talking about bailing out Korea in the Korean War when there wouldn't even have been a war if we hadn't divided up the country in the first place (and refused to give them armor to defend against the tanks Stalin was giving Kim Il Sung)