2008 Olympic Boxing Results, Day Five (Part Two)

[JakeNDaBox]

By Jake Donovan - The second half of Wednesday competition saw Luis Yanez become the fifth member of Team USA to win his first bout of the 2008 Games, taking a 12-9 win over Kelvin de la Nieve of Spain. Team Cuba now has nine members still alive, but ended the day with its first loss as super heavyweight Robert Alfonso dropped a 5-3 verdict against Vyacheslav Glakzov of Ukraine, who now boasts eight members still in the medal hunt.

Massive Chinese southpaw Zhang Zheili gave his country a thrill with a 15-0 shutout over Morocco's Mohammed Amanissi, but was upstaged exactly one fight later when Kazakhstan’s Ruslan Myrsatayev blasted out Daniel Beahan of Australia in just 49 seconds.

All opening round competition is now compete. The heavyweights and super heavyweights are off until Sunday and Monday, respectively, when the quarterfinals begin. For all other divisions, the round of 16 opens up Thursday afternoon. [details]

[Senor Boxeo]

It's not the fighters who are very skilled young men it's the approach of the coach. With all the turmoil escalated by this coach his taking the team away from home for such an extended period of time to Colorado which is hard enough, but then uses bullying tactics and threats of crushing there lifelong dreams C'mon! Alot of our countries best fighters come from nothing, alot of empty promises from adults and still become something great despite all this ,butfor this Campbell guy to throw that in there face telling these fighters it's my way or the highway is a disgrace it's easy to see why the USA team is falling one by one slowly. Ask yourself how would you deal with such a coach? Not mention this Campbell guy has shown these kids no technique. Willie Price the guy from Wisconsin should have been Head Coach.