Olympic Boxing
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Boxing Has Been Placed 'On Hold' For 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles
The sport of boxing has been placed "on hold" for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, according to the International Olympic Committee [IOC]. Boxing, which has been a part of the Olympics since 1920, will still be a part of the 2024 Olympic Games...
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Claressa Shields Gives Praise To Team USA For Success at Tokyo Olympics
Two-time Olympic champion Claressa Shields, from Flint, Michigan, is proud of Team USA’s Olympic boxing medalists and the whole USA Boxing squad, which featured five female participants for the first time. The only American boxer ever to win back-to-...
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Keyshawn Davis Wins Silver Medal, Fights Bigger Battle For Mental Health Awareness
After the decision was read and Andy Cruz was declared Olympic gold medalist in the lightweight division, he broke into a Michael Jackson dance routine in the middle of the ring before doing the “rock-a-baby” motion popularized by NBA star Russell We...
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Bakhodir Jalolov Defeats Richard Torrez Jr. For Super Heavyweight Gold
Richard Torrez Jr. was the last man standing for the United States men’s team but unable to end a 17-year Gold medal drought. The 22-year-old super heavyweight representative for the United States came up short in his Olympic Gold bid following a...
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Lauren Price Defeats Li Qian, Wins Women's Middleweight Gold For Great Britain
Lauren Price was tasked with avenging a past amateur defeat in order to win out the women’s middleweight division. The number-one seed rose to the occasion, earning a three-round unanimous decision over China’s Li Qian to provide Great Britain wit...
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Keyshawn Davis Drops Split Decision To Andy Cruz, Claims Silver For USA At Men's Lightweight
Keyshawn Davis entered the Tokyo Olympics with the best shot at becoming the first American male boxer since 2004 to bring home a Gold medal. That goal fell one fight short, to an old amateur rival. Davis will take home a Silver medal for the U...
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Kellie Anne Harrington Decisions Beatriz Ferreira, Claims Women's Lightweight Gold For Ireland
Ireland now has its second Olympic Gold medal in the women’s lightweight division. Kellie Anne Harrington overcame a stiff challenge from Brazil’s Beatriz Ferreira in the Tokyo Olympics women’s lightweight final Sunday afternoon at Kokugikan Arena...
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Busenaz Surmeneli First Turkish Boxer To Win Olympic Gold Medal, Beats Gu Hong In Women's Welterweight Final
An hour after watching her Tokyo Olympics teammate fall short in her own Gold medal fight, Busenaz Surmeneli was able to provide the history her nation sought at the start of the day. Surmeneli became the first ever Turkish boxer—male or female—t...
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Hebert Conceicao Sousa Scores Bailout Knockout of Oleksandr Khyzhniak, Wins Men's Middleweight Gold
Hebert Conceicao Sousa was three minutes away from having to settle for a silver medal. A single left hook now puts him in the running for the coveted Val Barker Trophy. Brazil's Sousa waded through a sea of punches to score a dramatic, one-pun...
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Stoyka Krasteva Tops Number-One Seed Buse Naz Cakiroglu For Women's Flyweight Gold
Stoyka Krasteva never made a better decision than to come out of retirement. The two-time Olympian brought home the first-ever Gold medal for women's boxing in Bulgaria following a dominant win over Turkey's Buse Naz Cakiroglu. Krasteva outboxed t...