Boxing Results

While Cuba’s Olympic boxing team continues to perform head and shoulders above everyone else at Worker’s Gymnasium, the first crack has surfaced in the seemingly invincible cadre of boxers operating out of Havana. The first loss to be suffered by the Cubans came when 2008 Pan American Featherweight Champ Idel …

Saturday August 16, 2008 was a big day for the U.S. as Michael Phelps made history by winning his unprecedented eighth Gold Medal at the 2008 Olympics, but for the eight members of the U.S. boxing team, their story has not been as fruitful. Middleweight Shawn Estrada and light flyweight …

Despite the disappointment of Team Great Britain’s Khalid Yafai’s defeat yesterday at the hands of Cuba’s flyweight Andris Lafitta by a score of 9-3, James DeGale put in a great effort as he faced US ‘favourite’ Shawn Estrada in the second round of the Middleweight division. Neither man scored in …

On Friday night, Hennessy Sports and The Fight Network promoted a 10 round non-title middleweight contest between “Dazzling” Darren Barker of London, England and iron-chinned Canadian Larry “Razor” Sharpe at the River Cree Resort in Enoch, Alberta, Canada. Undefeated Barker, the Commonwealth Middleweight Champion, was looking for his eighteenth win …

The Cuban boxing team continued their domineering ways today in Beijing’s Worker’s Gymnasium as they continue to steamroll anyone who gets in their monumental quest for Olympic Gold. Just three days after his 20th birthday, lanky light welterweight Roniel Iglesias continued to shatter the myth that the Cuban team would …

The second round of elimination bouts did not fare as well for featherweight Raynell Williams as it did for team mate Demetrius Andrade, who will proceed to the quarterfinals on Sunday. On Friday, August 15, 2008, Williams lost his chance at an Olympic medal when he was defeated by Khedafi …

Having a first round bye, light heavyweight Tony Jeffries faced Colombian Eleider Alvarez on Thursday. It was a steady opening round as both men sussed each other out, but neither scored a point in the initial stanza. Jeffries finally gets the first point with almost a minute of round two …

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 …

On Thursday, August 14, 2008 welterweight Gold Medal favorite Demetrius Andrade opened the next round of elimination bouts for the U.S. team competing in the Round of 16 against thirty-two year old Andrey Balanov of Russia, who Andrade had previously lost to as a young seventeen year old at the …

Team Australia’s last hope in boxing at the 2008 Olympics walked into a Russian buzzsaw yesterday as Anthony Little was put out of the games by Alexey Tishchenko. The Perth lightweight was outclassed from the start by the 2004 Olympic Gold Medallist at super featherweight but things got a whole …

© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing The U.S. boxing team had a strong finish on Wednesday, August 13, 2008, ending the opening round bouts with both their heavyweight and light flyweight fighters moving into the next round of competition. The first victory came from the raw and inexperienced hands of …

On Tuesday, August 12, 2008, the U.S. boxing team suffered a devastating blow when top Gold Medal hopeful Rau’shee Warren lost in his first elimination bout to Korea’s Oksung Lee. Warren was the first U.S. boxer since Davey Lee Armstrong in 1972 and 1976 to compete in two Olympic Games. …