SEPT 9: The International Amateur Boxing Association (Aiba) has decided to suspend cameras above the four sides of the ring to keep an eye on the five judges.Any hint of controversy and the bout footage will be reviewed.Aiba president Anwar Chowdhry said that images of the fighters would also be able to be linked to computerised scoring read-outs.``If a judge has pressed a (scoring) button, you can see what the position of the two boxers was,'' Chowdhry said.``How did he press the button? they (the boxers) were maybe not within scoring distance. So we will know exactly whether the judge has done it correctly or not.We will have the proof.''Chowdhry added: ``I think three or four mistakes we can allow but not beyond that.``If we are convinced this was intentional, he will be told to go home.''The existing computerised scoring system was brought in after the fiasco of Seoul in 1988 when American Roy Jones was widely held to have been robbed of gold by judges voting for his outclassed South Korean opponent.No point is awarded for a hit unless three of the five judges press a scoring button for one particular boxer within a second of each other.The system, however, has proved a rich source of controversy in the past. At the Atlanta Games in 1996, a Tunisian referee was sent home after he was deemed to have made four mistakes on his first day.And at the last World championships in Houston in 1999, there was uproar when the Cuban team walked out in protest at the judging after Juan Hernandez suffered a shock defeat.Hernandez was later re-instated as welterweight champion but by then the Cubans had left the arena. Four of the five judges - from Bulgaria, Estonia, Mongolia and Argentina - were suspended for ``gross and blatant divergences''.Chowdhry said he was confident that there would be fewer arguments in Sydney because of the ``spy cameras'', adding: ``this is what we are trying to achieve, to make the scoring as correct and above board as possible. We were a little disappointed in our last World championships in Houston.``The best boxers should win, that is all that we want.''The camera was welcomed by US boxer Brian Viloria, who won the 1999 World light-flyweight title by beating Cuban Olympic champion Maikro Romero.``I believe it's good, it's watching the officials and it's giving them second thoughts about whether they should cheat or not,'' he said.``That will give them something to think about before they do something real crazy.''
