by Scott Gilfoid: Having lucked out in three successive fights in the super heavyweight Olympic boxing competition, Britain’s Anthony Joshua will be heading to the finals on Sunday to face 2008 Olympic super heavyweight gold medal winner from Italy Roberto Cammarelle in London for the 2012 super heavyweight Olympic gold medal.

Joshua again won a controversial decision win his victory over Ivan Dychko from Kazakhstan in their semi-finals match. The final score was 13-11 for Joshua. However, I’ve seen the fight a half dozen times and there’s no way that Johsua should have won that fight. Joshua was clearly dominated by the tall 6’8″ Vitali look alike Dychko in the 1st and 2nd rounds. Joshua was tagged often in the first two rounds, and he didn’t land nearly enough to deserve an even score going into the 3rd.

Like in Joshua’s other fights in the tourney against Erislandy Savon of Cuba and Zhilei Zhang of China, he won a fight that I felt he should have lost.

I’m really disappointed with the scoring of the fights in the Olympics as a whole, and not just for these particular fights. Sadly, these were just the typical examples of what I felt was terrible scoring. My feelings are that Joshua should have been eliminated in all three of his Olympic fights and the fact that he was given wins in all three fights is really sad.

The hard hitting southpaw Cammarelle defeated the seeds #1 fighter Magomeddrasul Medzhidov by a 13-12 score in their semi-finals bout on Friday. The 32-year-old Cammarelle showed that he still has excellent left hand power, as he rallied from a 6-4 deficit in the 1st round to even the score at 10-10 in the 2nd. In the 3rd, Cammarelle turned it up a notch as he unloaded with huge left hands one after another to get the 13-12 win. I was really impressed with his performance. However, I wasn’t impressed with the scoring of the fight, as I had Cammarelle winning by a much larger margin than the judges did. He was teeing off in every round against the powerful Medzhidov. The difference in the fight was that Cammarelle was able to land his big left hands a lot more than Medzhidov was able to land his scorching right hands.

These two fighters were clearly the biggest punchers in the competition. Joshua, although more muscular than those guys, isn’t really much of a puncher. He looks like he can really punch but for some reason the power just isn’t there. What the 6’6″ Joshua is good at is jabbing. He throws a decent jab when he’s motivated. His problem is he doesn’t throw enough jabs and instead relies too much on his arm punching.

Barring any controversial scoring of Sunday’s fight, I see Cammarelle lighting Joshua up with left hands and winning a lopsided decision if he doesn’t knock Joshua out. I thought I saw Joshua staggered briefly in his questionable win over Dychko on Friday, and if he was able to stagger Joshua, then the powerful Cammarelle will definitely be able to do it as well.

Cammarelle will have a huge power advantage in this fight, if not the height or reach. It doesn’t matter that Joshua will have the bigger size, because Cammarelle is so much more powerful than he is and he’ll take the fight to Joshua in close and hurt him.

Joshua needs to work on his flexibility. He’s too stiff. He reminds me of a weightlifter that’s spent too much time in the weightlifting gym and not enough time in the boxing gym working on flexibility and speed. Joshua also needs help with his movement. He’s basically a flat-footed plodder and he doesn’t move around the ring very well. He needs power something fierce and I see that area really hurting him when he eventually turns pro.