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No headgear, new scoring, 3 pros headline Olympic boxing

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

All three of them.

The International Boxing Association's high-profile plan to entice prominent pros to Rio de Janeiro didn't work, leaving the sport without the star-studded tournament many apparently wanted.

Only a trio of traditional pros will compete for gold medals, and 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 has removed headguards from male Olympic fighters for the first time since 1980.