USA Boxing's Mikaela Mayer did what was expected of her during her first round matchup in the women's lightweight division, dispatching of Jennifer Chieng from the Federated States of Micronesia by a unanimous decision.
After a disappointing 2012 Olympics in London, the USA Boxing team is looking for redemption in 2016 at the Rio Olympics. Nico Hernandez has done his part.
The U.S. men's boxing team will be assured of its first Olympic medal since 2008 when Nico Miguel Hernandez faces Hasanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan in the semi-final of the light-flyweight competition on Friday.
If there was any doubt about which countries will rule the next decade of boxing, they can now be put to rest. After Cuba dominated the morning session on Day 6 at the Rio Olympics, it was Kazakhstan that ran through the competition during the evening session, going 3-1 and advancing two fighters to their respective quarterfinals.
RIO DE JANEIRO - A Namibian boxer who was accused of attempting to sexually assault a maid at the Olympic Village has been released and is free to compete, a spokesman for the Rio 2016 organizers said on Thursday.
With only three boxers in this year’s Olympics and a 20-year drought since their last Olympic medal, Canada is desperate for a return to the podium. Things got off on the right foot during Day 6 for Canada, as light welterweight Arthur Biyarslanov impressed against Jordan’s Obada Alkasbeh.
Former world professional champion Amnat Ruenroeng, one of the top Thai bets for a boxing medal in the 2016 Olympics, was battered into submission by a French amateur in their last-16 clash on Wednesday.
By Cliff Rold - On Wednesday afternoon, Team USA got something it needed badly. After being shut out of the medal stand on the men’s side for the first time in Olympic competition in 2012, light flyweight Nico Hernandez guaranteed the men’s team would not leave empty handed this time around. A different test begins. The test is this: if Team USA keeps winning, can they begin to...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Men are fighting without headgear for the first time in 36 years, making the sport debatably safer and undoubtedly more attractive to fans. But the most tangible consequence is gore: At least 10 boxers at the Rio Games have already incurred significant facial cuts in the first five days of the tournament.
Nico Hernandez leaped in the air with an unshakable smile on his face when the scorecards were read. With a unanimous decision victory over Ecuador's Carlos Eduardo Quipo Pilataxi, 20-year-old Hernandez had secured his spot in the men's light flyweight semi-final, securing at least a bronze medal for the United States' at the Rio Olympics.