SUPER heavyweight Delicious Orie saw this Olympic dream destroyed by the latest astonishing decision at the North Paris Arena.
Orie, Team GB’s best hope for a medal at these games was convinced he had beaten Armenia’s Davit Chaloyan after dominating all three rounds.
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The 27-year-old from Wolverhampton had bossed the fight with his snaking left jab and seemed to have landed all the blows that mattered.
But the Judges were watching a different fight from the crowd and astonishingly scored it three-two in favour of the Armenian, leaving Orie stunned and collapsing into tears of shock and despair as he was led away utterly broken.
Following Orie’s narrow defeat, fans were left at a loss.
One wrote on social media: “Stinker of a decision. Delicious Orie got robbed!”
While a second fumed: “Delicious Orie has just been robbed against Davit Chaloyan. That’s an absolute disgrace.”
A third raged: “This is completely disgusting. Team GB need to lodge a complaint. There is absolutely no way in hell that Delicious Orie lost that fight.”
And another added: “Delicious Orie did not lose that fight. What a robbery.”
After his controversial defeat, he said; “For the past eight years, I’ve always dreamed about that gold medal in the Olympic Games.
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“Now it’s been taken away from me.
“It could be me, it could be from the judges. That’s what’s happened.
“But I feel like I’ve let myself down and let my family down.”
Orie followed team-mates Charley Davison and Rosie Eccles on being the wrong end of shockers and with Patrick Brown also out in the first round GB are just two fights away from a first round wipe-out.
He added: “I can’t believe it because I’m sure I did enough.
“It’s too soon for me to start saying it’s unfair although I do feel hard done by, and it was the same for Charley and Rosie. But this leaves a sour taste.”
