Guantanamo climbs the ring in Hamburg, Germany. In the Cuba´s eastern extreme, temperatures are above 30 degrees. In the European city they have less than 15 degrees. The fists of Arlen Lopez Cardona and Erislandy Savon Cotilla impose.
Guantanamo climbs the ring in Hamburg, Germany. In the Cuba´s eastern extreme, temperatures are above 30 degrees. In the European city they have less than 15 degrees. The fists of Arlen Lopez Cardona and Erislandy Savon Cotilla impose.
It is the debut of the two Guantanamo fighters at the World Boxing Championships, in which the first goes for his second title, while Erislandy aspires to be crowned to better the silver medal, in Doha, Qatar 2015.
Arlen, Rio de Janeiro's Olympic champion, shows a good start in the demanding event, a sign of recovery from the bad impression in the last of his World Series presentations.
The ambidextrous, 75 kg won against the Italian Salvatore Cavallaro, who shortly after starting the bout, hit him with a powerful right swing.
America also celebrates in that division the victory of the Colombian Jorge Vivas, 3-2 to the detriment of the Russian Petr Khamukov, a difficult adversary for Arlen.
Erislandy Savon climbs to the German ring. He is seen slight in spite of his 91 kilograms. He knows his goal is win a strong rival and beats him 5-0 the Ukrainian Ramazan Muslimov.
The native Ukrainian pugilists are always strong rivals given their excellent physical and technical form.
For the opposite sector of the organization chart, the Olympic and world gold medalist, Russian Evgeny Tishchenko dominates the Colombian Deivis Julio Blanc 4-1 and undoubtedly it could be a hard fight if in a final the Russian´s opponent is Savon.
The Englishman Cheavon Clarke, grateful for absence of the Angolan Tumba Silva, is the obstacle to overcome tomorrow for a place in the medal table, while Arlen will also fight on Tuesday against Kazakh Abilkhan Amanku, in both cases in search of bronze.
Translation: Ilia Charon