Vasyl Anatolyevich Lomachenko vs. Richard Oblitey Commey & Jared Anderson vs. Oleksandr Teslenko RBR

It still throws me off looking at the record of a, say, Keyshawn Davis, whom I just watched in the summer Olympics a few months ago, seeing that his pro debut took place in February. Like, there is a solid half a second of cognitive dissonance where my brain is like "b-buh?! Data not compute.." before I'm like "oh yeah, they allow pros in now..."

And they have for what, the last two straight Olympiad cycles? Still not used to it.

 

Not really. Amnat Ruenroeng was I think among the first to jump in, and he got yeeted before the medal stages - knocked out, in fact, in his second match.

 

Ew. NAW's ring entrance theme is literally just some jackass yelling "AHH LI! AHH LI! YYYYYEEEAH BOIIII!"?

 

Nico Ali Walsh vs. Reyes Joel Sánchez, 4 rounds @ super middleweight

 

Round 1

Sánchez is putting in very slow and telegraphed line drive lead rights while keeping his left hand low, just begging to be countered - but Walsh is jogging in place and then circling, giving Sánchez way too much respect, pawing jabs. Walsh treating it like a light spar and not taking advantage of the wide-open looks Sánchez is giving him. Just circling and gently rolling out jabs as if worried about offending Sánchez.

10-9 Walsh, boring