Olympic Boxing Results Day 5
On Day 5 of the London Olympic boxing tournament, three Team USA boxers were in action, bantamweight Joseph Diaz Jr in his second fight of the tournament, heavyweight Michael Hunter, and super heavyweight Dominic Breazeale. All three men were matched tough, and would need top performances in order to advance.
Joseph Diaz Jr was in the first fight of the day. He was lined up against the division’s number 1 seed, Cuba’s Lazaro Alvarez, who had a first round bye. Each round was tight, but cumulatively he fell behind on points and couldn’t catch up. Diaz acquitted himself very well in the bout though, ultimately losing by a 21-15 score.
Diaz is certainly a talented and game fighter, and one would think that he really got the short end of the stick here with his draw. If he didn’t have to face Alvarez in the second round, he could have kept advancing quite a bit potentially.
Heavyweight Michael Hunter was lined up against Russia’s Artur Beterbiev. In a tough, bruising and bloody affair with lots of holding and in-fighting, the official scores ended up even at 10:10, which means the judging goes to the countback. At that point, the Russian fighter got the nod.
It’s a disappointing result, because Hunter appeared to be the more technically sound fighter in there. In addition, he had a 1 point lead heading into the final round.
Finally, it was time for Breazeale to get into the mix, and he was also lined up to face a highly touted Russian, Magomed Omarov. Breazeale is a newcomer to boxing, and unfortunately, that showed against the seasoned, strong Russian.
Omarov built up a big 5-0 lead after 1 round, and kept on controlling the action from there. The final tally was 19-8 for Omarov, who tagged Breazeale at the end of the bout and did some extra damage.
Unfortunately for Team USA, that was 3 defeats and an 0-3 day in Olympic boxing action on Wednesday. That means that only four of the nine men’s Olympic boxers for team USA are still alive in the tournament.
Complete Day 5 Olympic Boxing Results
Men’s Bantam (56kg) ALVAREZ ESTRADA Lazaro wins 21:15 DIAZ JR Joseph
Men’s Bantam (56kg) VODOPIYANOV Sergey loses 11:13 VIEIRA de JESUS Robenilson
Men’s Bantam (56kg) NEVIN John Joe wins 15:10 ABUTALIPOV Kanat
Men’s Bantam (56kg) VALDEZ FIERRO Oscar wins 13:7 YUNUSOV Anvar
Men’s Heavy (91kg) BETERBIEV Artur wins 10:10 HUNTER II Michael
Men’s Heavy (91kg) PULEV Tervel wins 10:7 WANG Xuanxuan
Men’s Heavy (91kg) PERALTA JARA Yamil wins 13:5 BOULOUDINATS Chouaib
Men’s Super Heavy (+91kg) MEDZHIDOV Magomedrasul wins by stoppage Round 2 MWANBA Meji
Men’s Super Heavy (+91kg) OMAROV Magomed wins 19:8 BREAZEALE Dominic
Men’s Super Heavy (+91kg) ARJAOUI Mohammed wins 15:6 YEPMOU MENDOUO Blaise
Men’s Super Heavy (+91kg) PEREA CASTILLO Ytalo loses 10:18 CAMMARELLE Roberto
Thanks for checking out our Olympic boxing results for USA boxing on day 5. Be sure to check back later for a more complete rundown of all of the fights in the morning session.
