Boxing at Paris 2024 (Les Jeux de la XXXIII Olympiade)

Rafael Lozano Serrano (ESP) vs. Yunior Alcantara Reyes (DOM), Men's 51kg Quarterfinals

 

Them cats is fast as lightning!

 

Btw the perhaps most hotly anticipated match of the Games is coming up in about one hour. (Jalolov vs. Teremoana, 92+kg)

 

Judges go 3-2 in favor of the slick Dominican over his Spaniard fellow southpaw.

 

20+ seconds left is a tad early for celebratory showboating.

I know it's rare to see kayos in the Olympics but why tempt fate. That's asking the universe to get memed.

 

30-27 x2, 29-28 x2, 28-29, SD for Alcantara Reyes

 

Gabrijel Veočić (CRO) vs. Cristian Javier Piñales (DOM), 80kg (176.3lb, light heavyweight) Quarterfinals

 

10-9 x5 to Piñales. Veočić performing well, though.

 

Very chippy, lots of headlocks and ragdolling.

 

The handsome Croatian's gas tank may be depleted. Looks "beaten".

edit: and indeed, he finds himself in a near impossible to escape 18-20 hole on points.

 

Veočić decides to leave it all in the ring, gunning for a KO. Lots of southpaw & orthodox foot-crossing and clinches, though - plus he must contend with Piñales' jab not letting him pass. He can't put any momentum together.

 

30-27 x5, UD for Piñales

 

Murad Ilham Oglu Allahverdiyev (AZE) vs. Nurbek Oralbay (KAZ), 80kg (176.3lb, light heavyweight) Quarterfinals

 

After this bout starting now, there are two bouts left in the morning session - both super heavy QF matches, first Diego Lenzi vs. Nelvie Raman Tiafack, and then Jalolov vs. Teremoana closing the show.