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08-12-2008, 07:23 PM
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  |  American flyweight Rau’shee Warren stunned in first round BEIJING — American flyweight boxer Rau’shee Warren suffered a stunning upset loss today in the first round at the Beijing Olympics. The 2007 world champion was confused about the score at the end of his bout against South Korea’s Oksung Lee and did not even attempt to land punches he would have needed to convert in order emerge victorious. Instead, Warren lost, 9-8. It was his second straight first-round exit at an Olympics. As Warren walked to his corner after the fight, he asked, incredulously, “You mean I lost?” according to USA Boxing coach Dan Campbell. When Campbell confirmed the decision, Warren threw his mouthpiece into the corner and flung his headgear out of the ring. Afterward, Warren sobbed into the arms of a USA Boxing publicist, saying, “I want to go home.” He had become the first American boxer in 30 years to qualify for consecutive Olympics and was a favorite to win the gold medal here. He said he thought he was beating Lee at the end of the fourth and final round, so rather than attack by trying to throw more punches, Warren moved around to avoid Lee. Warren didn’t try to score punches until the final four seconds when Campbell implored him to fight. “I didn’t know,” Warren said. “There was so much going on. I felt like I should have been up. I feel like it wasn’t the right scoring. It’s not right.” In the final minute, Warren looked up into the crowd toward some of his fans, who he thought were telling him to “get happy.” But over in Warren’s corner, Campbell was telling him to throw punches. Campbell suggested that the scoring of the match might not have been fair to Warren. “I’m almost speechless,” Campbell said. “Some things you never want to say, so I won’t. But it was just weird the way the scoring went.” Wow, I'm shocked. Just saw it go down on TV. Devastating. US Boxing is just on the freefall right now. I'm speechless, Rau'shee waited four years for this opportunity and...excuse me.....  ...sorry about that, and all of his hard work went down the drain. Tough luck. 
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08-13-2008, 02:26 AM
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| Re: American flyweight Rau’shee Warren stunned in first round I was getting ready for work and trying to watch the fight at the same time. So I didn't really see a lot of it. What I did hear was Teddy Atlas complaining about the scoring. |
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08-13-2008, 02:50 AM
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| Re: American flyweight Rau’shee Warren stunned in first round Its sad when a fighter loses a disputed decision but in all honesty, the guy who Warren was in with was a poor fighter. He should have schooled him really. Its a shame because id heard good reports about Warren and i looked forward to seeing him a bit more. A clown on another website is claiming he'll be P4P the best in the world in a couple of years. 
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08-13-2008, 03:02 AM
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| Re: American flyweight Rau’shee Warren stunned in first round I can't believe all the commotion over this decision - it's like they think Warren is the only one who has been robbed.
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