Why does boxing in the Olympics look so average, as if it’s boring, not as violent as Tyson’s fight?

What you describe is actually the biggest intuitive difference between amateur boxing and professional boxing. Even international events like the Olympics are still amateur events in the eyes of professional boxers because the competitive environment and rules are different.

First of all, the intensity of Olympic boxing matches is not as good as professional boxing. Olympic matches last for 4 rounds, each round lasts 2 minutes, while professional boxing can reach 12 rounds, each round lasts 3 minutes, and professional boxers are not like Olympic athletes also wear protective gear! Professional boxing attaches great importance to the spectacle of the game, promotes intense scenes, encourages KOs, and has generous bonuses. Therefore, boxers pay special attention to the ability to fight and hit hard.

Olympic athletes don’t have to work so hard. Unlike professional boxers who compete every few months, although the intensity of a single Olympic event is far less intense, the schedule is more intensive, with up to four fights in ten days. In the five games, physical strength needs to be distributed reasonably, and there is no need to use all your strength to knock down the opponent. In addition, with the protection of protective gear, the victory or defeat is more often determined by points, such as Zou Shiming's "pirate style" guerrilla play. The method was formed in such an environment. It mainly focuses on scoring points. Although it is flexible and changeable, its lethality is obviously insufficient. It is precisely because of being accustomed to this tricky way of playing that Zou Shiming experienced what he experienced when he switched to professional boxing. It was an extremely painful transformation, and I was scolded and scolded by the coach more than once during training because old habits were hard to change.

Although the overall level of professional boxing is higher, it does not mean that Olympians are necessarily inferior to professional boxers. Professional boxers must be invincible in Olympic games. After all, Olympians have also experienced many years of professional training. What's more, many professional boxers themselves are from the Olympic Games. Last year's Rio Olympic boxing competition welcomed professional boxers for the first time, but the two former professional boxing champions were obviously "acclimated", whether it was Lunlong, the former IBF (International Boxing Federation) flyweight champion who defeated Zou Shiming, or Cameroon's former WBO (World Boxing Organization) middleweight interim boxing champion Hassan was completely defeated in both games - the former was technically knocked down by the French teenager, and the latter failed to even make it past the first round.

The main reason for the unsatisfactory performance of professional boxers is their inability to adapt to the new competition environment and rules. First of all, the duration of Olympic boxing competitions is much shorter than that of professional competitions, which is disadvantageous for slow-burning boxers and those who are good at fighting protracted battles of attrition. Moreover, professional players who are accustomed to completing their efforts in one fight are even more at a loss for the intensive schedule of the Olympics; Professional boxing pays more attention to actual killing effects and scene advantages, while Olympic rules pay more attention to points and less to scene advantages. This causes professional boxers to often "do not score when they gain the upper hand" under Olympic rules. This is also possible when they have a scene advantage. The same goes for losing a game. If even the top Olympic athletes rush to participate in professional competitions without professional training, the consequences can be imagined.