Boxing at the Summer Games of the XXXII Olympiad, Tokyo

Judges unanimous for Zamkovoy in the 1st.

 

Man vs. boy in there. Zamkovoy marking up Madiev's face in numerous places, while sustaining barely a scratch himself.

Zamkovoy an expert at drawing the lead (giving up his natural height advantage by slouching in temptingly) and then riding it backward, straightening to full height and lurching in with hard counter line drive lefts. Madiev looks quick, fit & powerful but he's outclassed in ring IQ and timing by about tenfold.

20-18 x 5 in favor of the Zamkovoy, probably cruising towards an easy shutout.

 

Yep, complete shutout, 30-27 across the board.

Very sharp, Zamkovoy - dialed in with the left hand and moving with lots of self-assurance. Honestly if he's this on point in the semis I favor him over his old nemesis Iglesias - even the improved version we saw today (and definitely the lackluster, halting version that fought Okazara).

They've met thrice before, and Zamkovoy has gotten the better of him twice. All three were close, though, with Iglesias and Zamkovoy each taking one MD.

 

Next up quarterfinals at 81kg (light heavyweights)

 

Yeah, this'll have been a good learning experience for him.

 

Arlen López (CUB) vs. Rogelio Romero Torres (MEX), 81kg

 

Lefty against lefty. At first glance the Cuban looks two divisions smaller, but a minute in he's schooling the Mexican. Very quick moving in and out landing body jabs without taking receipts, making Romero lunge wildly.

 

Wow. López showed a lot in his bag of tricks in that opener. He can hang back and pick you off, and he can pressure and score flush lead right hooks on the head of a much taller opponent.

AND he can switch-hit pretty effectively, doing a Dempsey shift? That's almost not fair.

 

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Those flicks were such guilty pleasures back in the day. (and yes I know they go back way further, but I'm not old as hell myself so this is what I mostly knew their association from growing up)

 

Romero just can't escape that hook, huh (or anything Arlen throws really) - almost feel bad for him. A full beat or two after getting hit his head is moving to slip the punch that already got him, like a cognitive delay or something.