Olympics: Rio 2016: Conlan fumes at controversial defeat

But the AIBA also said that no results would be overturned. That’s why it released a statement claiming to have dropped a handful of refs and judges, stating “less than a handful of the decisions were not at the level expected”.

The banished judges apparently didn’t include some of the participants in the two most prominent disputed decisions.

“I watched the heavyweight final last night [won by Russia’s Evgeny Tishchenko over Kazakhstan’s Vassiliy Levit] and I thought, “That can’t happen to me, with the whole of Ireland watching”.

“We’re getting better but Rome ain’t built in a day and we’re going to continue to raise that bar of excellence”, insisted Virgets, a member of Aiba’s executive board and chairman of its disciplinary committee.

The Irishman appeared to have dominated the fight, leaving his opponent bloodied and bruised, but the judges gave Nikitin a unanimous victory.

In the wake of Irish boxer Michael Conlan’s curse-laden protest over his stunning defeat on Tuesday to Vladimir Nikitin, the International Boxing Association has removed multiple judges from being able to moderate any more boxing matches at this year’s Olympics.

However, an official told the Daily Telegraph that the AIBA do not favour any particular counties or fighters, saying: “Michael is a current world champion and he came here with high expectations”.

The judging was thrown into the spotlight this week when Irish and USA boxers protested they had been “robbed” in quarter-final fights.

Those disputed decisions and a handful of less-prominent calls took attention from an otherwise entertaining Olympic tournament.

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“Hey Vlad. How much did they charge you bro?” he asked.

“They’ve robbed me of my Olympic dream”, Conlan said. “But the judges can’t be God”.

“Amateur boxing stinks from the core right the way to the top”.

He added that he has always had an “inkling that there is corruption in boxing”. He out-fought him in the second round and out-boxed him in the first.

Most notably, it changed the scoring system to a 10-point must. “I haven’t seen it as bad since then”.

On the fight itself, he was unhappy with the way the referee handled the fight. Five judges score each bout with a computer randomly selecting which scorecards will count.