2016 Río Olympics - North & South American Boxing Qualification Finals

In progress in Buenos Aires.

Live, free, legal stream courtesy of TyC Sports in Argentina:

http://tycsportsplay.com/evento?1375-Preolimpico_americano_de_boxeo__Dia_7

 

Full schedule of today's first session, which started at 2pm EST:

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Today was Día Siete. The qualifying tourneys began on March 11th and conclude on Saturday the nineteenth.

Coverage of Día Ocho starts tomorrow (and can be viewed on the same link) at 2pm EST.

 

He actually did lose to Peralta today but still has another chance to qualify tomorrow.

 

Whoops, guess Session I has ended. It had been 10 or 15 minutes of replay highlights since I tuned in, which I assumed was just to kill time until the next set of matches, but apparently it was their wrap-up as the stream went offline a few minutes ago. :conf

 

Session II of Día Siete airs live at 7pm EST, following a two hour 'intermission'.

Here is the full lineup:

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Notable results from Session I this afternoon:

Yamil Peralta (ARG) def. Cam Awesome (USA) - 91kg
Claressa Shields (USA) def. Yenebier Guillen Benitez (DOM) - 75kg
Victoria Torres (MEX) def. Dayana Sánchez (ARG) - 60kg

 

You can watch full replays of today's afternoon session here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3...ympic-qualifier-event-buenos-aires-2016_sport

 

Notable match-ups to watch for later tonight in Session II:

Gary Russell III (USA)* vs. Luis Martin Arcón Díaz (VEN) - 64kg
Roniel Iglesias (CUB) vs. Alberto Ignacio Palmetta (ARG) - 69kg
Ignacio Perrin (ARG) vs. Teófimo Andrés López Rivera (HON) - 60kg
David Gauthier (CAN)** vs. Luis Cabrera (VEN) - 60kg
Shakur Stevenson (USA) vs. José Vicente Díaz Azocar (VEN) - 56k

* brother of Gary Russell Jr., and Gary Antonio Russell (who competes in the pros as just "Antonio Russell" to avoid confusion) :!: - and two other brothers named after their father Gary with different middle names.

** brother of fringe contender Sébastien Gauthier

 

All were on points, AFAIK.

 

CST, what's your beef with Cam F. Awesome? :think

He's probably our brightest hope to breathe some life into our heavyweight scene in the near future among the crop of current amateurs.

 

Live boxing in 40 minutes.

edit: underway now, actually.