Aiba world championships

Man, Khyznhiak is a buzzsaw. Dude was throwing with bad intentions pretty much nonstop. Thanks for the updates, Serge!

 

Is a beast at 75kg but can be outboxed, Joe ward controlled him when they met at 81kg

 

Khyzhniaks amateur record is 503-20 according to World championships producer s. Thats quite impressive for a 22yo

 

You can be sure that almost everyone is lying with their record.

 

Recap of today's semis:

(SPOILERS AHEAD)

The flyweight final is gonna be Yosbany Veitia vs. Jasurbek Lapitov. Veitia from Cuba is the favourite for gold, but he was pretty lucky to get through his semi against Tamir Galanov – the spread of scores was insane, with a 30-27, a 27-30, two 29-28s and a 28-29 – I thought 29-28 either way was reasonable. He’ll face Jasurbek Lapitov of Uzbekistan, who won an extremely ugly, scrappy UD over Inkyu Kim, two gangly guys lunging in and clinching/wrestling for most of the fight, winging power shots. Lapitov does seem to pack a punch and had Kim on the floor and wobbling on another occasion, but that’s mainly because he throws ridiculously wild hooks. Veitia is the classier fighter, and this final will probably be easier than his semi, but I don't rate Veitia so highly that an upset would be that shocking.

The lightweight final will be Lazaro Alvarez vs. Sofiane Oumiha. Alvarez is going for his third world championship gold in a row; he’s a master boxer and dominated his semi-final against Otar Eranosyan, who was struggling with an eye injury but far too crude besides. Oumiha scraped past Dorjynambuu in an excellent back-and-forth battle – this was a repeat of their Olympic semi-final, which he also won. This is the final we were expecting and hoping for.

The welterweight final will be Shakhram Giyasov vs. Roniel Iglesias. Losing Rio finalist Giyasov won a terrific scrap against Ablaikhan Zhussupov in a repeat of the Asian Games final. 20 year old Zhussupov impressed me and could’ve got the nod. Iglesias’ win over Abass Baroau was just as exciting; the German is absolutely relentless and still young enough to improve, but Iglesias is the better punch-picker in classic Cuban fashion and he won a split decision. Iglesias was the world champion in 2009, and Olympic champ in 2012.

The light heavy final will be Julio Cesar La Cruz vs. Joe Ward. This division has followed the script, with the top 4 seeds making the semis. La Cruz beat Carlos Mina in a scrappy contest where both fighters lost a point at the end for dirty stuff inside. Three times European champion Joe Ward correctly won a split decision against the outsized Olympic middleweight finalist Melikuziev in another ugly bout. Neither landed a lot but Melkuziev was lunging in under Ward’s jab and missing a lot of wild shots, getting picked off every so often as he did so.

The super heavyweight final will be Kamshybek Kunkabayev vs. Mahammadrasul Majidov. Kunkabayev bossed Cameroon’s Fokou Arsene, winning every round, getting two knockdowns, even dropping him with a jab. This was quite a fun fight even so, as Arsene clearly had power too (despite being a specialist in failure), and staggered Kunkabayev at one point. One judge had this fight 29-28 somehow lol, the rest rightfully had 30-26. I gotta say, the judging seems generally much better in this tournament than the Olympics – all this negative publicity on AIBA may be doing the trick, but maybe it’s just that the Olympics mean more and are a lot more corrupt. Kunkabayev looked good and may have a chance against two time world champion Majidov, who was too good for Aussie Joseph Goodall for two rounds, but seemed to tire and let Goodall take the third. He’ll need to pace himself better in the final.

 

Well, Loma's amateur record was 396-1, maybe Ukranians are including sparring as legit fights

 

My predictions

49kg - dusmatov
52kg - veitia
56kg - ragen
60kg - Alvarez
64kg - Gomez
69kg - giyasov
75kg - amankul
81kg - de LA Cruz
91kg - tishchenko (after getting battered, he shows him who the A side is)
91kg+ - the Kazakh

One thing I find really annoying about de LA Cruz is how the judges view him. Honestly the reason he never loses a round is because even when they are even the judges side with him when he's not the aggressor.its fairly annoing boxers can have close to 50-50 fights with him, and he only lands little jabs but the judges will have it a shut out.

I mean buatsi put him on he's are at the Olympics and still lost the round.