Boxing News
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Boxing: Stevenson gifted a walkover to bantamweight final
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Highly-rated U.S. bantamweight Shakur Stevenson was given a walkover to an Olympic boxing final with Cuba's Robeisy Ramirez on Thursday after Russian opponent Vladimir Nikitin withdrew due to injury.
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Boxing: Cuba's La Cruz gets his teeth into light-heavy gold
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Two years after being shot in the street, stylish Cuban Julio Cesar La Cruz beat Kazakhstan's Adilbek Niyazymbetov to become his country's first light-heavyweight Olympic boxing champion on Thursday.
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Olympics-Boxing-Boxing body AIBA reassigns top official after scoring uproar
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Olympic boxing body AIBA has reassigned its French executive director Karim Bouzidi to a new role, a day after announcing that some judges and referees had been dropped from the tournament at the Rio Games.
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