RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nico Hernandez will bring a boxing medal back to America. The class, still to be determined. But the Wichita, Kansas fighter has earned at least a bronze and snapped a U.S. medal drought in boxing that stretches to 2008.
The biggest change in the history of Olympic boxing was back under the microscope after the first professional fighters to ever compete in a Games were all eliminated in double-quick time.
It was another day of dominance for the Cuban boxing team at the Rio Olympics. Light flyweight Joahnys Argilagos and light heavyweight Julio Cesar La Cruz – both of which entered the games ranked first in their divisions – shined on Day 5 as they both advanced to their respective quarterfinals.
Having finished the round of 16 in both the men’s lightweight and light flyweight divisions, Team USA finds themselves 4-1 as a unit and nine minutes, or one win, away from the medal stand in two classes.
RIO DE JANEIRO - It was a big blow for the pros in Rio de Janeiro. The three professional fighters that bucked 112 years of amateur competition in Olympic boxing have all been eliminated from the tournament.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Team USA's Carlos Balderas (Santa Maria, Calif.) joined his roommate in the quarterfinals with his second victory of the Olympic Games on Tuesday morning in Rio de Janeiro. Balderas took on Japan's hard charging Daisuke Narimatsu in today's second round competition at the Riocentro Pavilion 6 on day four of boxing competition in Brazil.
Paddy Barnes suffered a shock upset defeat at the Rio Games yesterday, but one of his chief supporters has claimed that the Belfast-based boxer was hard done by on the cards following his nip-and-tuck tussle with Spain’s Samuel Carmona in the 49kg division. A score of 29-28 in his favour was overturned by two lots of 29-28 to send him home much earlier than many expected.
Paddy Barnes admitted he felt a sense of relief after suffering a shock defeat in his opening bout at Riocentro as Ireland's dreadful start to the Olympic boxing competition continued.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s hardly a guaranteed pathway to professional boxing supremacy. In fact, ring history is littered with examples of fighters who strutted their stuff on the Olympic stage, then fell flat on their medaled faces when the fights got longer and the gloves got smaller. Exhibit A: Heavyweight gold...
Rio de Janeiro - A Russian heavyweight shattered the dreams of a home hope at the Rio Olympics on Monday and then hit out at the doping "politics" which he says hampered his preparations.