American Results from World Amateur Championships
Shawn Estrada RSC3 Artur Zlatopolski... East LA's Shawn Estrada made it four in a row for the USA by stopping Israel's Artur Zlatopolski. Estrada ended things early, winning a mandatory stoppage on the 20-point rule in the final seconds of the third round. He held only a 2-0 lead after the first round, but came out on fire in the second, scoring 12 points in a minute to move out to a 14-1 edge. The Israeli tried tackling Estrada to the ground, but even that couldn't hold off the 20-point mercy stoppage. Next up for Estrada is a Japanese foe on Saturday.
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Raynell Williams W Khedafi Djelkhir... American Raynell Williams enjoyed a succcessful world amateur championship debut in his featherweight bout with France's Khedafi Djelkhir, a veteran of the 2004 Olympics. Williams won a 28-18 victory over Djelkhir to bring the U.S. win total to three. Williams, the first U.S. boxer to compete in the second day of action at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, rode a strong first round to the win. The first round saw Djelkhir pressing and the American countering beautifully, building a commanding 12-2 lead after two minutes. The pace slowed slightly in the second stanza, and Williams went on to win by ten points. Djelkhir went to the 2004 Athens games as a featherweight, and lost to Vitali Tajbert, who is now 13-0 as a pro. Williams will face Kazakhstan’s Mazat Ospanov in second round action on Saturday.
sources: usa boxingJavier Molina W Rikardo Smith... Light welterweight Javier Molina (Commerce, Calif.) boxed in his first major international bout on Tuesday, and he recorded a 36-17 victory over Jamaica’s Rikardo Smith. Molina led from bell to bell. The 17-year-old turned it on in the third round, scoring 12 points and holding the rangy Smith to four to move out to a commanding 26-13 edge as the final two minutes began. He will face Emil Maharramov of Azerbaijan in the next round. “He was one dimensional, he just came forward with long arms,” Molina said. “People see me as a little kid with hardly any muscle so the guys I box are bigger than me and they don’t think I can do it, but I know in my head that I can do it."
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Gary Russell W Rudolf Dydi... Bantamweight Gary Russell, Jr. (Capitol Heights, Md.) led off the 2007 AIBA World Championships in victorious fashion. The two-time U.S. bantamweight national champion faced off with Rudolf Dydi of Slovakia in the tournament opener in Chicago. Dydi took a 5-4 lead at the halfway mark, but Russell enjoyed a strong third round of action, holding Dydi scoreless while nearly doubling his point total to go into the final stanza with a 9-4 edge. He held Dydi at bay through the final two minutes to move out to a 13-6 final victory, and grab the first win of the tournament for both he and the United States team. Russell said, “all I needed to do was let my hands go; we kept colliding because he was switching back and forth from southpaw to orthodox stance. Our feet kept hitting and it offset me a little bit, but you have to overcome things like that.” He will face Israel’s Peter Moyshenzon in second round action on Friday.
