                               Respondent.


      Barry Eck, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, pro se.

       William P. Rayel, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division,
United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, for respondent. With him on
the brief were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Jeanne E. Davidson,
Director, and Kenneth M. Dintzer, Assistant Director.


Appealed from: Merit Systems Protection Board
                      NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

 United States Court of Appeals for the FederalThe time has finally come to dump boxing as an Olympic sport.

It would be devastating for young people around the world, but the amateur version of the sport is so corrupt there is no saving it. The death penalty might be the only option.

When competition isn't on the up and up, when the referee is playing an active role in deciding who wins a fight, when the judges conveniently look the other way, it's no longer an amateur sporting competition. It's the WWE.

Given the vile nature of those who run amateur boxing, the only shock at these London Games is that a referee hasn't been caught passing a foreign object to a boxer to slip into his glove.

AIBA, the governing body of amateur boxing, dismissed referee Ishanguly Meretnyyazov