The Cuban boxing team has been living up to it's reputation as the world's top amateur team as it continues to shred it's competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Today at Worker's Gymnasium, the victory train rolled on as Middleweight Emilio Correa hammered out an 18-4 victory over Sergiy Derevyanchenko of the Ukraine, light flyweight Yampier Hernandez dominated Ukraine's Georgiy Chygayev 21-3 and flyweight Andris Lafitta defeated Great Britain's Khalid Yafai on points 9-3.

It was the same story yesterday but featherweight Idel Torriente did have a tougher time as he had his hands full with Mongolia's Enkhzorig Zorigtbaatar before pulling out a 10-9 win.

Bantamweight Yankiel Leon outpointed Kazakhstan's Kanat Abutalipov by a score of 10-3 while lightweight Yordenis Ugas closed out Friday's competitions for Cuba by outboxing Domenico Valentino of Italy 10-2. More...

Queensland boxer Jarrod Fletcher had the misfortune of drawing 2005 and 2008 Pan-American Champion, Cuba's Emilio Correa, on the first day of the 2008 Olympics in Bejing, China and the 24 year old Hervey Bay middleweight was outpointed by the Cuban by a score of 17-4 today.

Fletcher won Gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by beating current professional hot prospect Adonis Stevenson as well as British southpaw and fellow 2008 Olympian, James DeGale.

But the Australian slugger came up short against one of the stars of the Cuban team as Correa, who's father won Gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics as a welterweight, simply had too much movement and skill in the arsenal.