After the 2016 Olympic boxing competition was marred by horrendously corrupt officiating (worse than just the usual officiating that plagues amatuer boxing), AIBA has announced changes to the officiating system. Sadly, the modest changes seem like an effort to treat cancer with a band-aid. For more information on AIBA's corruption, read this report. Suffice it to say, Ireland's Michael Conlan neatly summed up the Olympic judging by giving two middle fingers to the judges after losing by decision in a fight he clearly eserved to win. After an international uproar over that verdict, and other bad decisions, all 36 Olympic referees and judges were suspended by AIBA pending an investigation. This week, AIBA fined Conlan (although it has no power to collect the fine) and announced the following changes to its officiating: "The use of all five judges to determine the winner of each contest and the deployment of [a]Swiss Timing electronic system to randomly select officials before the bouts, along with the removal of the Draw Commission, will all ensure the clean efficacy of key tournament procedures. To give the judges the optimal conditions to score a match, they will now also be placed on all four sides of the ring, rather than three, and a [referee and judge] evaluator role will become a recognised ITO position." In the Olympics, five judges were assigned per fight but only three of them were used in the official scoring.--Scott Shaffer