Within the framework of ASIAD 19, Boxing weight of 50kg women has 18 boxers registered to play. The organizers will select 4 representatives to reach the semi -finals to calculate the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, besides the athletes who pass the world qualifying round at the beginning of the following year. Suddenly happened when the reigning championship and the world runner -up of this weight class met the first match.
Nearly half a year has passed since the upper stage of the final of the World Women's Boxing Championship 2023, Nguyen Thi Tam continued to encounter Nikhat Zareeen. This result surprised many people. However, luck is part of the boxing, martial arts applies the formula for playing live but does not arrange seeds.
Different from table tennis, badminton or tennis, Boxing does not apply the seed system when drawing a branch. All are chosen to pair on the computer randomly, for the following reasons:
– Firstly, Boxing does not have an international continuous international competition system in a calendar year. The results of individual tournaments of the year are not enough to rank fighters from high to low. This leads to the Olympic boxing without the world rankings, so the seed system does not exist.
In fact, there is a ranking for Boxing Olympic athletes of BoxRec. But this chart actually only means reference, because BoxRec is strong in statistics of professional boxing performance. BoxRec's achievement statistics and Olympc boxes are often incomplete.
– Second, the Boxing Olympic athletes often do not attend a fixed weight class. With the world professional boxing rankings, boxers often maintain competition in a weight class. That is not true for the Olympic boxing, where the athletes can flexibly adjust at the request of the coaching staff.
The nature of the athletes adjusting the weight is because not all the weight classes of Boxing are included in the international tournament program. Boxing Olympic competition system records 24-26 weight classes of men and women at the world championship. But to the Paris Olympic Games, the number of content was reduced to 13.
The adjustment of the Boxing competition is even greater than in regional levels, where the host country has the right to increase and decrease as they like. Nguyen Thi Tam's weighing classes in the past 1 year are the most obvious evidence for that adjustment. In domestic tournaments, the center competes 52kg. At the Asian Championship, World Championship and Asiad, she played 50kg.
But at the last 32 SEA Games, Tam had to fight 54kg, which was the opposite content. The 29 -year -old boxer is forced to spread because this is the smallest weight for women athletes at the 32nd SEA Games. The athletes must adjust their weight, making the rankings and seed ranking systems, if it really exists, is also incorrect.
The most evident evidence of misleading in the calculation of Boxing seeds appeared in the Asian Championship 2022. In this tournament, Nguyen Thi Tam was not ranked seeds because she had no achievement in the weight of 50kg. But BTC (Asian Boxing Federation) still affirmed that Tam was the championship candidate, and that was true.