Olympic Boxing: Cuba Dominating Competition In Beijing
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.
Tomorrow light welter Roniel Iglesias meets Russia’s Gennady Kovalev, with welterweight Carlos Banteaux squaring off with Egypt’s Hosam Abdin and heavyweight Osmai Acosta engaging Greece’s Ilias Pavlidis
Super Heavyweight Robert Alfonso sees action on Monday as does bantamweight Yankiel Leon and featherweight Idel Torriente.
Thus far the Cuban team have come through the competition unscathed and present a daunting challenge as the Olympic Games of 2008 roll on.