It was very different, but sounds like it's shifting more towards pro-style boxing: http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/9087686/olympic-boxing-drops-head-gua

It was very different, but sounds like it's shifting more towards pro-style boxing: http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/9087686/olympic-boxing-drops-head-guards-changes-scoring-system http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/9087686/olympic-boxin... (Men's Olympic boxing is dropping the head guards and shifting from its previous scoring system to a pro-style scoring system)