Disappointment and anger. The Slovaks took the scalp of the favorite behind the green table – PRAVDA.sk

The decision of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) during the World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, caused maximum disappointment and anger in the Slovak camp.

Matúš Strnisko on the archive picture.

Despite Wednesday’s triumph 2: 1 over the favored Mexican Romer, the representative of the Slovak Republic Matúš Strnisko will not perform in Sunday’s eighth finals.

“Despite the fact that our boxer was the winner in the official results published by AIBA about 3 hours after the match, today our team officially learned that the result was changed ‘at the green table’, when after the Mexican protest three judges of the match from the video for closed the verdict that the 2nd round was to be scored for the Mexican and thus changed the verdict 2: 1 to the rounds for Romero, “informs the Slovak Boxing Federation (SBF) on your facebook.

The Slovak defeated the opponent 3: 2 in the mentioned second round, but after the mentioned change he had to lose 2: 3. The first round was won by the Mexican 5: 0, the third by the Slovak 5: 0. In Sunday’s eight finals, Strniska will not fight against the Englishman Tudsbury, but Romero will fight.

On Thursday, the Slovak team complained about “zero information about the protest and non-disclosure of details about the change in the result” and only after the protests did it receive official paper.

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“There was only a stern statement that the second round of three protesters changed the protest in favor of the Mexican.

Our team expressed disagreement with the changed result, because it is convinced that after the 1st lost round Matúš Strnisko started to spin the match in the 2nd round and won it fairly, which in the 3rd round only confirmed the dominant performance and won it 5: 0 .

The judges watched from the record only the 2nd round taken out of the context of the whole match. The record does not contain any details on the basis of which they changed the 2nd round (number of accurate shots, technical-tactical dominance, competitiveness, militancy).

The opportunity to appeal against this change was rejected by our team, it is no longer possible to appeal against the changed result! “Reports the SBF.

The SBF also made it clear that the possibility of protesting is a novelty from the AIBA workshop, which wants to declare boxing justice, which its International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the public have blamed for many years.

“However, this rule can not only be used, but in the opinion of our expedition also abused, especially for the benefit of diplomatically strong countries.

So far, all protests at the World Cup have been rejected. A strong Mexico protest against small Slovakia was ideal to show that the protest could also be recognized.

However, our expedition is convinced that justice has not been done objectively and without any doubt! “States the SBF.