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

Yep. Grrr..

 

I didn't see his semifinal bout but I saw two of his others bouts in the earlier stages and he's one of the fighters who has impressed me in these games.

 

Luckily I managed to catch a replay of Khyzhniak vs Lopez just now and by chance too. Really good fight and performance by Khyzhniak against a fellow amateur great. To be honest, I don't see how Khyzhniak needed to win round 3 big to ensure victory. I didn't really score round 1 and will have to watch it again but you couldn't help but score round 2 because he completely dominated it and he should've won it 5-0. He completely dominated it but round 1 didn't look like a domination to me.

Khyzhniak has lost one fight in like 8 years, which cruelly for him came with what was it like 30-50 or so seconds left to go in round 3 of the Olympic final in a fight he had been completely dominating and lost due to sheer recklessness. He was fighting like he desperately needed to win those last seconds of the bout but he really didn't. He basically threw the gold medal away due to idiocy.

But now he's a 2 x Olympic silver medalist, I'm assuming is a strong favourite to win gold even though I haven't seen his opponent, and should he win gold it could so easily have been 2 x gold had he not been so foolish in the last final.

And FTR, it's a miracle he has only been stopped once in his career because who wouldn't you pick to get stopped multiple times fighting with that style? He's obviously crazy strong and durable

 

Yeah I know and by a perfect left hook right on the money. I can't remember exactly how long was left in the round but I think it was like 30 seconds or maybe a bit more but not a minute IIRC