“The Large Uzbek” took an enormous step in the direction of repeating as Olympic tremendous heavyweight gold medalist.
Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov used his vary and southpaw counterpunching to defeat Norway’s Oman Shikha by unanimous choice on Monday, July 29 at Enviornment Paris Nord in Villepinte, France.
Jalolov, who can be knowledgeable boxer with a 14-0 (14 KOs), barely needed to get out of first gear within the spherical of 16 bout, and now appears to the quarterfinals on Friday, the place he’ll meet Australia’s Teremoana Teremoana. The 2 met as soon as earlier than, with Jalolov stopping Teremoana in two rounds within the 2023 World Championships preliminaries. The 6’6”, 270-pound Teremoana completed the job with a proper hand excessive on the ear that despatched the Ukrainian to the canvas.
After beginning out the match 2-0, Crew USA fell 0-2 on Monday, with tremendous heavyweight Joshua Edwards shedding a disputed 3-1 choice to Italy’s Diego Lenzi within the spherical of 16 and girls’s 60kg boxer Jajaira Gonzalez shedding a 5-0 choice to Brazil’s Beatriz Ferreira within the spherical of 16.
Edwards, 24, of Houston, Tex. seemed sharp early utilizing his faster footwork to get out and in, and switching between stances every alternate to maintain his opponent off steadiness. Edwards continued to field and flurry within the second spherical, although Lenzi by no means stopped coming. Edwards misplaced a degree within the second spherical for placing his head down, although it was clear that Edwards by no means bent under Lenzi’s waist. Edwards tried to make up for it with an enormous flurry to finish the spherical, however he was visibly upset on his approach again to the nook.
Edwards rocked Lenzi with a proper hand halfway by the third, as he got here out extra aggressively to try to regain the benefit. Lenzi gave the impression to be out of gasoline by many of the third spherical as he gasped for air and supplied little again when Edwards flurried. Nonetheless, Lenzi managed to land his finest punches of the struggle, a proper and a left in an alternate.
One choose had it even at 28-28 and one other had Edwards successful 29-27, whereas three had Lenzi successful 30-26 on one card and 29-27 on the opposite two. Lenzi will face Germany’s Nelvie Tiafack, the Cameroon born German who defeated Azerbaijan’s Mahammad Abdullayev by unanimous choice, on Friday, August 2 within the tremendous heavyweight quarterfinals.
Ferreira, the one present professional world champion within the Olympics this 12 months, scored a repeat of her unanimous choice win over Gonzalez within the semis of final 12 months’s Pan Am Video games to advance to the quarterfinals. Gonzalez, 27, of Glendora, Calif. didn’t lay down simply, as she outhustled the aggressive Ferreira at instances in shut. Ferreira, who received the vacant IBF light-weight title in April with a technical choice over Yanina del Carmen Lescano, picked up the tempo within the second spherical, strolling Gonzalez into uppercut counters and mixing in physique punches in a dominant spherical. Sensing the necessity for one thing dramatic, Gonzalez went for broke in spherical three however Ferreira’s superior accuracy helped shade the struggle.
Ferreira, 31, of Salvador, Brazil will face Chelsey Heijnen of the Netherlands on Wednesday, July 31 within the quarterfinals.
Full Outcomes
Ladies’s 60kg spherical of 16
Yang Wenlu (CHN) 5-0 Thi Linh Ha (VIE)
Natalia Shadrina (SRB) 5-0 Dounia Khelif (ALG)
Maria Jose Palacios Espinoza (ECU) 5-0 Tyla McDonald (AUS)
Shin Yi Wu (TPE) W-DQ Cynthia Temitayo Ogunsemilore (NGR) (doping)
Kellie Harrington (IRL) 5-0 Alessia Mesiano (ITA)
Angie Paola Valdes Pana (COL) 3-2 Donjeta Sadiku (KOS)
Chelsey Heijnen (NED) 4-1 Ungyong Gained (PRK)
Beatriz Ferreira (BRA) 5-0 Jajaira Gonzalez (USA)
Males’s 63.5kg spherical of 16
Wyatt Sanford (CAN) 5-0 Radoslav Simeonov Rosenov (BUL)
Ruslan Abdullaev (UZB) 5-0 Miguel Angel Martinez Ramirez (MEX)
Richard Kovacs (HUN) 5-0 Harry Garside (AUS)
Sofiane Oumiha (FRA) 5-0 Obada Alkasbeh (JOR)
Erislandy Alvarez (CUB) 5-0 Jugurtha Ait Bekka (ALG)
Bunjong Sinsiri (THA) 5-0 Jesus Nazaret Cova Romero (VEN)
Lasha Guruli (GEO) 5-0 Malik Hasanov (AZE)
Bazarbay Uulu Mukhammedsabyr (KAZ) 3-2 Chu En Lai (TPE)
Males’s +92kg spherical of 16
Diego Lenzi (ITA) 3-1 Joshua Edwards (USA)
Nelvie Raman Tiafack (AZE) 5-0 Mahammad Abdullayev (AZE)
Teremoana Teremoana (AUS) KO-1 Dmytro Lovchynskyi (UKR)
Bakhodir Jalolov (UZB) 5-0 Omar Shiha (NOR)
Djamili-Dini Aboudou Moindze (FRA) 4-1 Mourad Kadi (ALG)
Gerlona Gilmar Congo Chala (ECU) 3-2 Abner Teixeira da Silva Junior (BRA)
Davit Chaloyan (ARM) 3-2 Scrumptious Orie (GBR)
Ayoub Ghadfa Drissi El Aissaoui (ESP) 3-2 Kamshybek Kunkabayev (KAZ)
