ASIDE FROM FROM the boxers preparing their game faces for the Olympic Games and the IABA, almost everyone seemed to agree that Billy Walsh’s trans-Atlantic move last year was bad news for Ireland and great news for the USA.
Tonight, at least the second part of that theory is ringing true as the Walsh-trained light flyweight Nico Hernandez secured his country’s first boxing medal of the Games.
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Hernandez defeated Ecuador’s Carlos Quipo Plataxi by unanimous decision in this evening’s sub 49kg quarter-final to advance to a semi-final and guaranteed medal against Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov.
In the other semi-final will be world champion Joahnys Argilagos of Cuba against Colombian Yuberjen Martinez Rivas – who reached the final four by seeing off the man who ended Paddy Barnes’ Games, Spaniard Samuel Carmona Heredia, on a split decision.
Billy Walsh in the corner as USA secure their first boxing medal of Rio 2016
ASIDE FROM FROM the boxers preparing their game faces for the Olympic Games and the IABA, almost everyone seemed to agree that Billy Walsh’s trans-Atlantic move last year was bad news for Ireland and great news for the USA.
Tonight, at least the second part of that theory is ringing true as the Walsh-trained light flyweight Nico Hernandez secured his country’s first boxing medal of the Games.
Hernandez defeated Ecuador’s Carlos Quipo Plataxi by unanimous decision in this evening’s sub 49kg quarter-final to advance to a semi-final and guaranteed medal against Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov.
In the other semi-final will be world champion Joahnys Argilagos of Cuba against Colombian Yuberjen Martinez Rivas – who reached the final four by seeing off the man who ended Paddy Barnes’ Games, Spaniard Samuel Carmona Heredia, on a split decision.
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