[Bobby Chang]

Remember, this is OBJECTIVE boxing, where good punches are scores and you aren't under the whim of a judge paid off by a man with the flying hair.

[Tacos]

Amateur boxing is objective boxing, at least it tries more than professional boxing, with the introduction of computer scoring back around 1992, though that still has some flaws, particularly in getting the judges to credit body punches.

The general point was that the U.S. sent much less than their best team and got humiliated in the ring by being shut out 9 bouts to 0. Next to the Cuban team and the various teams of the ex-Soviet republics (mostly Russia), the U.S. generally has the best amateur boxers. In the past, particularly in the early years between Olympics, the U.S. would send inexperienced boxers to international meets, but some experienced ones were included...they would sometimes lose these duals but gain experience while doing so, but never got blasted out (except maybe by the Cuban teams) like they did by the British amateur boxing team.