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No headgear, new scoring, 3 pros headline Olympic boxing

After 112 years of amateur competition, professional boxers are fighting in the Olympics.

All three of them.

The International Boxing Association's high-profile scheme to entice prominent pros to compete in Rio de Janeiro hasn't worked.

Instead of the star-studded tournament many apparently wanted, only a trio of traditional pros accepted the offer to fight for gold medals in Brazil. Only hardcore boxing fans have ever heard of them: Cameroon's Hassan N'Dam, Thailand's Amnat Ruenroeng and Italy's Carmine Tommasone.

The Rio tournament will be more notable for what the men aren't wearing. AIBA is removing headguards for male Olympic fighters for the first time since 1980.