Rau'shee Warren W Georgy Balakshin... Rau'shee Warren continues to pile up meaningful international wins, this time defeeating Russia's Georgy Balakshin, 25-11. Balaksin was a 2004 Olympian, 2005 Amateur world champion, and earlier this week, he defeated the 2004 bronze medalist Jerome Thomas.
Balakshin, however, could not defeat Warren, who must now be considered along with Luis Yanez as America's best hope for Olympic gold.
Albert Selimov W Raynell Williams... American Raynell Williams is going home to Cleveland after losing a quarterfinal contest to Russia’s Albert Selimov by the score of 25-8. The bout was close for a round but then Selimov pulled away. Any disappointment will be considerably lessened by the knowledge that Williams' early round wins already qualified him for the Beijing Olympics.
Alexey Tishchenko RSC3 Husnu Kocabas... The dominating Russian team sent nine of its eleven boxers into the quarterfinals led by lightweight Alexey Tishchenko, who won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Tishchenko downed Husnu Kocabas of the Netherlands in a contest stopped in the third round after Tishchenko had built a 20-point lead at 25-5.
