World Youth Championships 2012

[cjscott]

How many fights would the Cuban and the English lad of had in there short career???

[mike222]

Number of bouts can vary eg
Hayrik Nazaryan ARM 60
Jack Bateson ENG 57/52-5
Dmitrijs Zaharovs LAT 68/52-16
Muhammat Unlu TUR 80
Ihor Sopinsky UKR 75
Vlad Kudyrakov UKR 98/80-18
Ilyian Iliyev BUL 43
Samuel Kristohurry FRA 47/41-6
Richard Goman GER 81/54-2-25
Cengiz Onat TUR 152
Olexsandr Melenyuk UKR 200/190-10
Diego De La Hoya 250/230-20

[rocky2010]

Are you sure Sweeney was born in 1994 not 1993?

April 1st 1994

[cjscott]

What about the Cuban super heavy and the English super heavy

[moorser]

Are you sure Sweeney was born in 1994 not 1993?

Yeah Sweeney was born in 1994.

[mike222]

The semis will be shown tomorrow on the AIBA you tube channel.Bouts start at 10am UK time.
I dont have details of the number of bouts for Hughie but he is a comparative novice.He boxes out of the Gloves ABC which is linked with Amir Khan Gloves project.
He is the English youth champion at 91KG but he lost in the British championships to Kody Davies of Wales.
The Cuban is a seasoned campaigner and has had dozens of bouts. He was the 2009 Cuban junior champion.

[locoxelbox]

The medals have been very spread this time with the russians and England having most boxers left. Surprisingly few boxers left for Cuba, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Ireland. 
Watch for the frenchman Sofiane Oumiha at 60 kg. He outboxed the cuban and outclassed the american, giving him two standing eights. The Puerto Rican Olympian Jeyvier Cintron at 52 kg is another favorite. Cuban Alexei Guibert hasn't been as impressive as I had expected but he's still my favorite for gold at 56 kg.  At 64 I thought the greek Tsanikidis beat the cuban Kevin Brown but lost 21-20. Guatemalas Lester Martinez who is trained by cuban Julio Gonzalez (1989 world champ) has impressed everyone here, however he has a tough semi against azerbaijans Parviz Baghirov. 

The Indian Sandeep at 75 kg looked like a gold medalist in the quarters. 
Also looking forward to see russian Andrey Stotskiy against world junior champ Jai Otepaia. In the quarters Stotskiy easily handled another world junior champ, uzbek Oybek Sharipov. The 49 and 69 kg are wide open, wouldn't be surprised if China clinches one gold.
Haven't seen too much of the super heavies, I wasn't impressed by Hughie Fury though. 

[mike222]

Semis
49 M Akhmadaliyev UZB 24-15 Jade Bornea PHI
Bin LV CHN 13-8 L L Pollipalli IND

56 M Dzhabrailov RUS W/O O El Hag GER
A Guibert CUB 13-5 F Ortiz PUR

75 O Khizynak UKR 13-5 D Baigabatov KAZ
M Madiyev RUS 15-9 Sandeep IND

[mike222]

91 P Wierzbicki POL 18-13 D Williams ENG
A Stotskiy RUS 11-9 J Opetaio AUS

64 K Brown CUB 16-10 J Kelly ENG
L Martinez GUA 13-9 P Bagirov AZE

Resumes after lunch

[mike222]

Remaining semis
52 J Cintron PUR 15-11 J Cordero CUB
O Simpson ENG 14-12 K Walker IRE

60 H Baysangurov RUS 16-14 S Oumiha FRA
R Curiel MEX 15-13 L Torres VEN

69 A Kosimov UZB17-14 Z Zhidi CHN
A Sovliov UKR 15-13 O Aydin TUR

81 S Forrest SCO 13-7 A Dokvadze GRG
N Aruytyunov UKR 19-9 I Shakhamov RUS

+91 Narender IND W/O F Schultz GER
Hughie Fury ENG 13-5 N Melkonyan ARM

Good afternoon for the Brits

[mike222]

Sensational win for English boxer as he upsets Puerto Rican olympian Cintron on chairmans vote after countback and he is not even British champion
49 Li Nin CHN 11-8 Muradzhon Akhmadaliyev UZB

52 Oliver Simpson ENG +10-10 Jeyvier Cintron PUR

56 Alexei Guibert CUB 12-8 Magomed Dzhabrailov RUS

60 Husein Baysangurov RUS 15-10 Raul Curiel MEX

[mike222]

64 K Brown CUB 17-14 L Martinez GUA
69 A Kosimov UZB 17-7 A Soloviov UKR
75 O Khizhnyak UKR 14-7 M Madiyev RUS
81 N Arutyunov ARM 13-9 S Forrest SCO
91 A Stotskiy RUS 21-9 P Wiezbicki POL
+91 H Fury ENG 10-6 Narender IND

The AIBA coverage was quite good with an English commentator just sticking to the facts without embellishment-how I like it.