As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Belfast bantamweight Michael Conlan boosted Ireland's battered Olympic boxing hopes with a solid 3-0 points win over Armenian Aram Avagyan on Sunday that put the world champion one fight away from a medal.
After having incredible success at home during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain is on their way to even more medals during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nico Hernandez won USA Boxing the Olympic medal it failed to bring home in London. At the Rio Games, coach Billy Walsh said one bronze medal should just be the launching point for a bigger haul.
Britain's super-heavyweight boxer Joe Joyce has a fine arts degree but he displayed his brutal side with an emphatic first-round knock-out victory in his debut at the Rio Olympics on Saturday.
It was a beautiful debut from Great Britain's super heavyweight medal hopeful as Joe Joyce made easy work of Davilson Dos Santos Morais. The 30-year-old native of London landed a right straight behind the ear of his opponent, putting him down and finishing the bout.
RIO DE JANEIRO - The overwhelmingly Brazilian crowd at the Rio Olympics roared and danced when the decision was announced -- their boxer had narrowly won on points and in return he blew kisses.
Cuban super heavyweight Leinier Pero dedicated his Olympic boxing victory to Fidel Castro on Saturday, the day the revolutionary and former leader of the Caribbean country celebrated his 90th birthday.
After winning gold with an incredible performance at the 2015 Pan Am games, USA Boxing's Antonio Vargas is off to an impressive start at the Rio Olympics.
Friday, Nico Hernandez and Carlos Balderas joined middleweight teammate Charles Conwell at the Olympic off ramp. Their Olympic dream in 2016 is at an end.
RIO DE JANEIRO - As a child he would knock on car windows trying to sell melting popsicles or roam the streets attempting to flog vegetables. Now Brazil's Robson Conceicao is guaranteed at least an Olympic bronze, the first medal in boxing in Rio for the hosts, after his unanimous points decision win in the lightweight quarter-finals on Friday.