Hmm...I thought people would be talking about this event on this forum, I guess not. Nobody seems to get on here, including myself.
Well, let's see if anyone wants to talk about it a little.
The first day of competition was today. The 56kg draw is brutal. Three of the favorites will have to fight each other before the semifinals which sucks. Regarding the first day, in my opinion, the two most impressive boxers were Nikita Piskunov, Russia, at 56kg and Charles Frankham, England, 56kg.
I always liked Piskunov but he looked especially good today. He was so smooth on his feet and he just looked sharper than I have ever seen him before. I was really impressed and he's going to be tough to beat. He shut-out a guy who lost a split decision at the European Championships earlier this year to the eventual winner. Frankham also looked great after a slow first round.
I can't believe these two can potentially meet before the semis. They are two Gold medal type fighters. It's a shame they're in the same weight class, but at least we could potentially see them fighting. Frankham will most likely have to face Marc Castro (USA) before that, however. I'm personally not too impressed with Castro. He does have a difficult style to deal with though.
Anyways, those are some thoughts. Hopefully we can get a little discussion going. This forum looks completely dead, no offense to anyone.
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Morning Session:
The first session of the second day is over.
We got the first robbery of the tournament in my opinion. Karoly Botos of Hungary (64kg) got robbed big time against Ronald Chavez Jr. of the Philippines. Chavez couldn't do anything. It's a shame whenever anybody gets robbed but Botos was one of the most impressive fighters so far in this tournament (still real early obviously) so it's a bigger shame. Chavez is not good.
Eskerkhan Madiev of Georgia (64kg) also looked real good against Said Eltuyev of England. For a second I almost thought they were going to rob Madiev as well, but good thing they didn't. Liked what I saw from Madiev.
Sergei Margarian of Russia (64kg) and Yanis Mehah of France (64kg) also looked solid, unfortunately they had to fight each other in the first round. I thought Mehah pulled it off but it was a close fight and Mehah did slow down in the last round. And obviously since Margarian is from the host nation he would more than likely get a close decision and that's what happened.
Others that looked decent: Milan Prat of France (69kg), Bryan Polaco of Puerto Rico (69kg), Patrick Donovan (Ireland, 60kg), Lounes Hamraoui (France, 60kg), Iliyas Mirkhatuly (Kazakhstan, 64kg, pretty good pressure fighter landed a lot of clean shots), Tugrulhan Erdemir (Turkey, 64kg, solid performance for the Junior World Champion), Tyler Jolly (Scotland, 64kg, liked what I saw).
Evening Session:
Like what I saw from Luis Nunez (Dominican Republic, 52kg). Nice pressure fighter.
Christian Montana (USA, 81kg) didn't look too bad. A little wild at times. All three of the American fighters that have fought so far have looked decent. Montano is probably the least impressive of the three. I was more impressed with Price and Torres yesterday. Montano did get hit solid from time to time especially considering the opponent. Most of the American fighters got favorable draws to at least win a few fights.
Others that looked decent: Enzo Grau (France, 52kg), Bayram Malkan (Turkey, 75kg, mainly because he landed some mean power shots), Roman Savitskyi (Ukraine, 81kg, definitely some potential), Sanjar Tursunov (Uzbekistan, 81kg, moves really well for a big guy. Probably one of the more impressive fighters so far).
I think scoring has been very fair. I think I've only seen one maybe two robberies thus far. The fight I mentioned above and Presniokov of Ukraine got robbed against Gashi of Germany at 64kg in my opinion. Maybe I'm missing a few others but I can't remember right now.
Tomorrow should be much more interesting. I can't wait to see Nikita Piskunov get in there against the 2016 European Silver Medalist. Eamer Coughlan vs Samatali Toltayev at 56kg should be a good fight.
The first session of the second day is over.
We got the first robbery of the tournament in my opinion. Karoly Botos of Hungary (64kg) got robbed big time against Ronald Chavez Jr. of the Philippines. Chavez couldn't do anything. It's a shame whenever anybody gets robbed but Botos was one of the most impressive fighters so far in this tournament (still real early obviously) so it's a bigger shame. Chavez is not good.
Eskerkhan Madiev of Georgia (64kg) also looked real good against Said Eltuyev of England. For a second I almost thought they were going to rob Madiev as well, but good thing they didn't. Liked what I saw from Madiev.
Sergei Margarian of Russia (64kg) and Yanis Mehah of France (64kg) also looked solid, unfortunately they had to fight each other in the first round. I thought Mehah pulled it off but it was a close fight and Mehah did slow down in the last round. And obviously since Margarian is from the host nation he would more than likely get a close decision and that's what happened.
Others that looked decent: Milan Prat of France (69kg), Bryan Polaco of Puerto Rico (69kg), Patrick Donovan (Ireland, 60kg), Lounes Hamraoui (France, 60kg), Iliyas Mirkhatuly (Kazakhstan, 64kg, pretty good pressure fighter landed a lot of clean shots), Tugrulhan Erdemir (Turkey, 64kg, solid performance for the Junior World Champion), Tyler Jolly (Scotland, 64kg, liked what I saw).
Evening Session:
Like what I saw from Luis Nunez (Dominican Republic, 52kg). Nice pressure fighter.
Christian Montana (USA, 81kg) didn't look too bad. A little wild at times. All three of the American fighters that have fought so far have looked decent. Montano is probably the least impressive of the three. I was more impressed with Price and Torres yesterday. Montano did get hit solid from time to time especially considering the opponent. Most of the American fighters got favorable draws to at least win a few fights.
Others that looked decent: Enzo Grau (France, 52kg), Bayram Malkan (Turkey, 75kg, mainly because he landed some mean power shots), Roman Savitskyi (Ukraine, 81kg, definitely some potential), Sanjar Tursunov (Uzbekistan, 81kg, moves really well for a big guy. Probably one of the more impressive fighters so far).
I think scoring has been very fair. I think I've only seen one maybe two robberies thus far. The fight I mentioned above and Presniokov of Ukraine got robbed against Gashi of Germany at 64kg in my opinion. Maybe I'm missing a few others but I can't remember right now.
Tomorrow should be much more interesting. I can't wait to see Nikita Piskunov get in there against the 2016 European Silver Medalist. Eamer Coughlan vs Samatali Toltayev at 56kg should be a good fight.
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Morning session:
Yevgeniy Pavlov of Kazakhstan got robbed big time against Jorge Grinan of Cuba. Pavlov was landing a lot of clean shots compared to Grinan. I swear Cuban fighters, a lot of the time, get a lot of credit for not doing much. It's quite annoying actually. I really liked what I saw from Pavlov. It's a shame that he got robbed.
Samatali Toltayev's fight against Eamer Coughlan was good. Coughlan landed some good shots but Toltayev ended up being a little too active for him, with his feet and hands. I scored it 2-1 in Toltayev's favor and I believe Toltayev won a split decision (4-1) showing it was a good competitive fight. Toltayev did better against Coughlan than Frankham did, but I still believe Ilya Popov of Russia handled him the best. Coughlan is one tough kid. Makes others feel real uncomfortable. Coughlan would have been better off at 52kg. If he can have a competitive fight against someone like Toltayev, who I think has a good chance to make it to the finals, I think Coughlan could have won at 52kg or at least medal. Those 52kg wouldn't have been able to handle the heat. It's shame they had to fight this early in the tournament. The 56kg draw was horrible. Most of the top guys have to face each other before the semis.
I honestly thought Etash Khan Muhammed of India should have gotten the victory over Alexei Rodriguez of Cuba, since he did land more clean shots, but they were definitely not going to let the Cuban lose. Cuban fighters, not all, are too flashy and sometimes no real effect that's why I find it annoying that they get too much credit.
Liked what I saw from the Junior World Champion, Cosmin Girleanu of Romania, at 49kg. He has a tough fight next.
Nikita Piskunov got off to shaky start in the beginning against the European Silver medalist, Otar Naveriani, but half-way through the first round he started to find his range. Piskunov dominated the last two rounds. Didn't let Naveriani get close to him at all. This is a good tune-up incase Pisuknov ends up facing the sloppy Marc Castro in the Quarterfinals. I think Otar caught Piskunov by surprise with how aggressive he started. That's why Naveriani had success in the first half of the first round, but couldn't do anything in the last two. Real solid performance for Piskunov. Liked what I saw in those last two rounds and even how he adapted in the first round. He kept snapping Naveriani's head back in those last two rounds.
What can be said about Marc Castro? Sloppy as always, Nothing more to add. In my opinion Vahe of Armenia was landing the cleaner shots, and definitely more of them, but for some reason they favored Castro's sloppy work. Vahe even snapped Castro's head back a few times.
Vahe has a strong second round and even third round wasn't bad from him; kept catching Castro with some nice clean shots. Only the first round was competitive and even then Vahe landed the better shots. I had Vahe winning the fight. Nothing impressive about Castro. Absolutely nothing.
Frankham should be able to beat him.
Frankham looked good. Well, to be honest he didn't look good definitely not as good as he looked in his first fight. I believe he got dropped in that first round. They called it a slip but I saw a punch landing. The last two rounds were sloppy, not Marc Castro sloppy, just not very effective rounds. Frankham reminds me of Nonito Donaire a little bit.
I think Piskunov is the class of the weight division. He had the best opponent and he had the best performance.
Morning session:
Some fighters that looked good:
49kg: Dylan Price (USA, didn't look as good compared to his first fight though), Yauheni Karmilchyk (Belarus), Billal Bennama (France), Volodya Mnatsakanyan (Russia, a little sloppy at times though), Cheng-Yu Hsu (Chinese Taipei, looked pretty decent), Cosmin Girleanu (Romania)
56kg: Sam Goodman (Australia), Samatali Toltayev (Kazakhstan), Andreas Jager (Germany), Shunkor Abdurasulov (Uzbekistan, he can be real dirty at times though), Jianming Zeng (China), Nikita Piskunov (Russia)
Yevgeniy Pavlov of Kazakhstan got robbed big time against Jorge Grinan of Cuba. Pavlov was landing a lot of clean shots compared to Grinan. I swear Cuban fighters, a lot of the time, get a lot of credit for not doing much. It's quite annoying actually. I really liked what I saw from Pavlov. It's a shame that he got robbed.
Samatali Toltayev's fight against Eamer Coughlan was good. Coughlan landed some good shots but Toltayev ended up being a little too active for him, with his feet and hands. I scored it 2-1 in Toltayev's favor and I believe Toltayev won a split decision (4-1) showing it was a good competitive fight. Toltayev did better against Coughlan than Frankham did, but I still believe Ilya Popov of Russia handled him the best. Coughlan is one tough kid. Makes others feel real uncomfortable. Coughlan would have been better off at 52kg. If he can have a competitive fight against someone like Toltayev, who I think has a good chance to make it to the finals, I think Coughlan could have won at 52kg or at least medal. Those 52kg wouldn't have been able to handle the heat. It's shame they had to fight this early in the tournament. The 56kg draw was horrible. Most of the top guys have to face each other before the semis.
I honestly thought Etash Khan Muhammed of India should have gotten the victory over Alexei Rodriguez of Cuba, since he did land more clean shots, but they were definitely not going to let the Cuban lose. Cuban fighters, not all, are too flashy and sometimes no real effect that's why I find it annoying that they get too much credit.
Liked what I saw from the Junior World Champion, Cosmin Girleanu of Romania, at 49kg. He has a tough fight next.
Nikita Piskunov got off to shaky start in the beginning against the European Silver medalist, Otar Naveriani, but half-way through the first round he started to find his range. Piskunov dominated the last two rounds. Didn't let Naveriani get close to him at all. This is a good tune-up incase Pisuknov ends up facing the sloppy Marc Castro in the Quarterfinals. I think Otar caught Piskunov by surprise with how aggressive he started. That's why Naveriani had success in the first half of the first round, but couldn't do anything in the last two. Real solid performance for Piskunov. Liked what I saw in those last two rounds and even how he adapted in the first round. He kept snapping Naveriani's head back in those last two rounds.
What can be said about Marc Castro? Sloppy as always, Nothing more to add. In my opinion Vahe of Armenia was landing the cleaner shots, and definitely more of them, but for some reason they favored Castro's sloppy work. Vahe even snapped Castro's head back a few times.
Vahe has a strong second round and even third round wasn't bad from him; kept catching Castro with some nice clean shots. Only the first round was competitive and even then Vahe landed the better shots. I had Vahe winning the fight. Nothing impressive about Castro. Absolutely nothing.
Frankham should be able to beat him.
Frankham looked good. Well, to be honest he didn't look good definitely not as good as he looked in his first fight. I believe he got dropped in that first round. They called it a slip but I saw a punch landing. The last two rounds were sloppy, not Marc Castro sloppy, just not very effective rounds. Frankham reminds me of Nonito Donaire a little bit.
I think Piskunov is the class of the weight division. He had the best opponent and he had the best performance.
Morning session:
Some fighters that looked good:
49kg: Dylan Price (USA, didn't look as good compared to his first fight though), Yauheni Karmilchyk (Belarus), Billal Bennama (France), Volodya Mnatsakanyan (Russia, a little sloppy at times though), Cheng-Yu Hsu (Chinese Taipei, looked pretty decent), Cosmin Girleanu (Romania)
56kg: Sam Goodman (Australia), Samatali Toltayev (Kazakhstan), Andreas Jager (Germany), Shunkor Abdurasulov (Uzbekistan, he can be real dirty at times though), Jianming Zeng (China), Nikita Piskunov (Russia)
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Not going to spend as much time for the evening session.
Evening session:
I'm really liking what I'm seeing from Luis Nunez of the Dominican Republic (52kg). He has impressed me in both of his fights. Nice pressure fighter with good power. His opponent kept holding him. It'll be interesting to see how he will handles Tuqir of England. Tuqir's opponent had some success today, so I think Nunez, who is a better pressure fighter (fighter in general) will pull it off, but Tuqir's height will be a problem.
Dainier Pero vs Nikoloz Begadze was a pretty competitive fight. I thought Begadze pull it off but I won't go as far as to say it was a robbery. Both fighters looked talented and at least Pero tried to do something, unlike the other two Cubans that fought in the morning session that should have lost their bouts.
Elio Crespo vs. Conor Quinn was a great chess match. Crespo was slightly sharper. Crespo is without a doubt the most impressive Cuban so far. (Cuba should be 1-3 today but they all got the decision. Crespo was the only one I thought won. The Pero fight was close but I felt his opponent landed the better shots and cleaner. I won't say it was a robbery though. The other two Cubans are lucky to have gotten the win.) Quinn was really good too. Shame they fought this early.
I really liked how Aidos Arapov of Kazakhstan (52kg) handled the Russian fighter, Nikolai Matveev. It was somewhat competitive. Neither guy looked superior but Arapov did the cleaner work and Matveev basically didn't do anything in that last round. The judges have kept it very fair when it comes to Russian fighters. They're not getting gifts or anything. Cuba seems to be the nation to be getting a little help from judges to be honest.
Some of the better boxers from this session:
Hamsat Shadalov (Germany, 52kg), Akash Tuqir (England, 52kg, his height is the real problem for his opponents, but his opponent today had success), Luis Nunez (DR, 52kg, probably the most impressive so far in this weight class), Bryan Almeyda (Puerto Rico, 52kg), Elio Crespo (Cuba, 52kg, best fighter in the weight class, so far, along with Nunez), Aidos Arapov (Kazakhstan, 52kg), Munkhbaatar Tsagaanbaatar (Mongolia, 52kg), Enzo Grau (France, 52kg, two fights and I have liked what I've seen from him, can probably make it to the semifinals, at least).
Evening session:
I'm really liking what I'm seeing from Luis Nunez of the Dominican Republic (52kg). He has impressed me in both of his fights. Nice pressure fighter with good power. His opponent kept holding him. It'll be interesting to see how he will handles Tuqir of England. Tuqir's opponent had some success today, so I think Nunez, who is a better pressure fighter (fighter in general) will pull it off, but Tuqir's height will be a problem.
Dainier Pero vs Nikoloz Begadze was a pretty competitive fight. I thought Begadze pull it off but I won't go as far as to say it was a robbery. Both fighters looked talented and at least Pero tried to do something, unlike the other two Cubans that fought in the morning session that should have lost their bouts.
Elio Crespo vs. Conor Quinn was a great chess match. Crespo was slightly sharper. Crespo is without a doubt the most impressive Cuban so far. (Cuba should be 1-3 today but they all got the decision. Crespo was the only one I thought won. The Pero fight was close but I felt his opponent landed the better shots and cleaner. I won't say it was a robbery though. The other two Cubans are lucky to have gotten the win.) Quinn was really good too. Shame they fought this early.
I really liked how Aidos Arapov of Kazakhstan (52kg) handled the Russian fighter, Nikolai Matveev. It was somewhat competitive. Neither guy looked superior but Arapov did the cleaner work and Matveev basically didn't do anything in that last round. The judges have kept it very fair when it comes to Russian fighters. They're not getting gifts or anything. Cuba seems to be the nation to be getting a little help from judges to be honest.
Some of the better boxers from this session:
Hamsat Shadalov (Germany, 52kg), Akash Tuqir (England, 52kg, his height is the real problem for his opponents, but his opponent today had success), Luis Nunez (DR, 52kg, probably the most impressive so far in this weight class), Bryan Almeyda (Puerto Rico, 52kg), Elio Crespo (Cuba, 52kg, best fighter in the weight class, so far, along with Nunez), Aidos Arapov (Kazakhstan, 52kg), Munkhbaatar Tsagaanbaatar (Mongolia, 52kg), Enzo Grau (France, 52kg, two fights and I have liked what I've seen from him, can probably make it to the semifinals, at least).
Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
Thanks for posting results. A guy named Mike used to always post results of world tournaments. Are you in Russia watching live?
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Here you have a link to the tournament - results, schedule et al -
http://www.aiba.org/aiba-youth-world-bo ... burg-2016/
http://www.mrboxhist.se
http://www.aiba.org/aiba-youth-world-bo ... burg-2016/
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Go on holiday for a while and people start writing about me in the past tense.Not really up to speed yet but I have looked at my rankings and here are the top ranked boxers here-interesting to see how they do
49KGS
1 Billal Bennama
2 Dylan Price
52KGS
1 Hayato Tsutsumi
2 Aydos Arapov
56KGS
1 Nikita Piskunov
2 Alexei Rodriguez
Marc Castro is a brilliant boxer but he is conceding age here-nothing he does would surprise me
Charles Frankham is highly regarded in England
60KGS
1 Beslam Khamsayev
2 Bilolbek Mirzarakhimov
64KGS
1 Kieran Molloy-if here
2 Eskerhan Madiyev
3 Sergey Margaryan
69KGS
1 Ulugbek Sobirov
2 Sadreddine Akhhmedov
75KGS
1 Lenar Perez lost 2-3 to William Hutcheson
2 Nikita Voronov lost by TKO to Dmytro Rybalka
Rybalka and Hutcheson were ranked 3 & 4-no seeding though
81kgs
1 Osvarri Morrel
2 Beksat Nurdauletov if competing
3 Sergey Murashev
Mo Akbar is rated highly in the UK
91KGS
1 Vladimir Uzunyan
2 Arkadiy Kartsan lost to Uzunyan
3 Massimo Burg if here
4 Shokruz Rakhimov
+91kgs
1 Vladislav Muravin
2 Nelvie Hess
Richard Torrez could be anything, he is clearly talented
49KGS
1 Billal Bennama
2 Dylan Price
52KGS
1 Hayato Tsutsumi
2 Aydos Arapov
56KGS
1 Nikita Piskunov
2 Alexei Rodriguez
Marc Castro is a brilliant boxer but he is conceding age here-nothing he does would surprise me
Charles Frankham is highly regarded in England
60KGS
1 Beslam Khamsayev
2 Bilolbek Mirzarakhimov
64KGS
1 Kieran Molloy-if here
2 Eskerhan Madiyev
3 Sergey Margaryan
69KGS
1 Ulugbek Sobirov
2 Sadreddine Akhhmedov
75KGS
1 Lenar Perez lost 2-3 to William Hutcheson
2 Nikita Voronov lost by TKO to Dmytro Rybalka
Rybalka and Hutcheson were ranked 3 & 4-no seeding though
81kgs
1 Osvarri Morrel
2 Beksat Nurdauletov if competing
3 Sergey Murashev
Mo Akbar is rated highly in the UK
91KGS
1 Vladimir Uzunyan
2 Arkadiy Kartsan lost to Uzunyan
3 Massimo Burg if here
4 Shokruz Rakhimov
+91kgs
1 Vladislav Muravin
2 Nelvie Hess
Richard Torrez could be anything, he is clearly talented
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I haven't been able to post about anything that happened today and not sure if I'll end up posting my thoughts about the sessions from today to be honest.
I signed up to this site early this year and I haven't been on in a while. I was almost sure people would be talking about the event here, but to my surprise nobody was talking about it and the forum seemed quite dead.
Hopefully we can get a small discussion going now though.
I signed up to this site early this year and I haven't been on in a while. I was almost sure people would be talking about the event here, but to my surprise nobody was talking about it and the forum seemed quite dead.
Hopefully we can get a small discussion going now though.
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Come on Mike...you need to keep your priorities straight. Holidays are great and all but you are and have been the guy who post results. The amateur section isn't the same without you so if you go holiday again during a world tournament...we're gonna have to talk about you in past tense.
Hope you had fun now get back to work posting results.
Hope you had fun now get back to work posting results.
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I'm really interested in that Frankham-Castro fight.
I honestly felt Castro lost his first fight and I think Frankham should be able to beat him. I could definitely see why Frankham is highly touted. I think he will do just well once he goes up to Elite level. It may sound crazy but I would favor him over Peter McGrail now.
Unfortunately for Frankham I just don't see him beating Nikita Piskunov. Piskunov has looked class in his first two fights and against solid opposition. Frankham himself is quality, but maybe a step below Piskunov.
I honestly felt Castro lost his first fight and I think Frankham should be able to beat him. I could definitely see why Frankham is highly touted. I think he will do just well once he goes up to Elite level. It may sound crazy but I would favor him over Peter McGrail now.
Unfortunately for Frankham I just don't see him beating Nikita Piskunov. Piskunov has looked class in his first two fights and against solid opposition. Frankham himself is quality, but maybe a step below Piskunov.
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Session 8A:
I felt Dylan Price should have lost his fight. I ended up being more impressed with his Belorussian opponent, Yauheni Karmilchyk, than him. For some reason they gave Karmilchyk a standing eight in that last round. Either way he won in my opinion.
Bilal Bennama (France) had another solid performance.
Jorge Grinan of Cuba gets another "gift" decision. This wasn't as bad as the first but his opponent was the only one trying to win the fight in the first two rounds. Grinan only won that last round.
Like what I saw from Jack Bowen of Australia. He's sloppy at times but I see the potential.
Strong performance for Hayato Tsutmsumi of Japan.
I wasn't too impressed with what I saw from Otabek Kholmatov of Uzbekistan in his previous fights, but I liked what I saw today.
Luis Nunez of the Dominican Republic really impressed me in his first two fights. This fight against Tuqir was more difficult, Tuqir is a European Champion after all. I think Nunez can end up taking the whole tournament. I really like what I see. Kholmatov won't be easy but I think Tuqir is better than Kholmatov, so if Nunez can beat Tuqir why can't he beat Kholmatov. Styles do make fights but I believe in Nunez. Really good fighter. It's a shame Nunez and Tuqir had to fight before the medal rounds because from what I saw today both should be medalist.
Hopefully Nunez doesn't get robbed against Kholmatov.
64kg: Hugo Micallef looked pretty good. Gabriel Dossen of Ireland also looked solid. More impressed with Micallef though. Rohan Polanco of the Dominican Republic, Eskerkhan Madiev of Georgia, and Airijus Vitlipas of Lithuania looked good as well.
I'll comment on the rest later. At least I'll try. I'm going to be pretty busy today but it should be easier for me to comment on the fights for the rest of the week.
I felt Dylan Price should have lost his fight. I ended up being more impressed with his Belorussian opponent, Yauheni Karmilchyk, than him. For some reason they gave Karmilchyk a standing eight in that last round. Either way he won in my opinion.
Bilal Bennama (France) had another solid performance.
Jorge Grinan of Cuba gets another "gift" decision. This wasn't as bad as the first but his opponent was the only one trying to win the fight in the first two rounds. Grinan only won that last round.
Like what I saw from Jack Bowen of Australia. He's sloppy at times but I see the potential.
Strong performance for Hayato Tsutmsumi of Japan.
I wasn't too impressed with what I saw from Otabek Kholmatov of Uzbekistan in his previous fights, but I liked what I saw today.
Luis Nunez of the Dominican Republic really impressed me in his first two fights. This fight against Tuqir was more difficult, Tuqir is a European Champion after all. I think Nunez can end up taking the whole tournament. I really like what I see. Kholmatov won't be easy but I think Tuqir is better than Kholmatov, so if Nunez can beat Tuqir why can't he beat Kholmatov. Styles do make fights but I believe in Nunez. Really good fighter. It's a shame Nunez and Tuqir had to fight before the medal rounds because from what I saw today both should be medalist.
Hopefully Nunez doesn't get robbed against Kholmatov.
64kg: Hugo Micallef looked pretty good. Gabriel Dossen of Ireland also looked solid. More impressed with Micallef though. Rohan Polanco of the Dominican Republic, Eskerkhan Madiev of Georgia, and Airijus Vitlipas of Lithuania looked good as well.
I'll comment on the rest later. At least I'll try. I'm going to be pretty busy today but it should be easier for me to comment on the fights for the rest of the week.
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Session 8B:
49kg: Volodya Mnatsakanyan (Russia), Cheng-Yu Hsu (TPE), Sachin (India)
52kg: Elio Crespo (Cuba), Aidos Arapov (Kazakhstan), Enzo Grau (France, I almost thought they were going to rob him. Next fight should be difficult)
64kg: Damian Lescaille (Cuba), Nicolae-Florian Schiopu (Romania, really liked what I saw), Tugrulhan Erdemir (Turkey, another strong performance; he's probably the favorite to take Gold right now), Tyler Jolly (Scotland)
Sessions 9A and 9B:
81kg: Osvary Morrell (Cuba), Sergei Murashev (Russia), Roman Savitskyi (Ukraine, most impressive from this weight class so far in my opinion), Bekzad Nurdauletov (Kazakhstan)
91kg: Cristian Filip (Romania), Dainier Pero (Cuba)
49kg: Volodya Mnatsakanyan (Russia), Cheng-Yu Hsu (TPE), Sachin (India)
52kg: Elio Crespo (Cuba), Aidos Arapov (Kazakhstan), Enzo Grau (France, I almost thought they were going to rob him. Next fight should be difficult)
64kg: Damian Lescaille (Cuba), Nicolae-Florian Schiopu (Romania, really liked what I saw), Tugrulhan Erdemir (Turkey, another strong performance; he's probably the favorite to take Gold right now), Tyler Jolly (Scotland)
Sessions 9A and 9B:
81kg: Osvary Morrell (Cuba), Sergei Murashev (Russia), Roman Savitskyi (Ukraine, most impressive from this weight class so far in my opinion), Bekzad Nurdauletov (Kazakhstan)
91kg: Cristian Filip (Romania), Dainier Pero (Cuba)
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Sessions 10A and 10B:
Like what I see from Sam Goodman of Australia. Good boxer and I think he should/will medal.
Solid performance for Samatali Toltayev against a good boxer who was fighting pretty negative. I think Toltayev will make it to the final. Ali Alagas of Turkey did a nice job a walking down Alexei Rodriguez and even dropped him hard in the first round. Toltayev vs. Alagas should be good.
Shunkor Abdurasulov is such a dirty fighter. Jianming Zeng looks decent.
Another great performance by Nikita Piksunov. He looked fast, sharp, and dominated the whole fight. I think he will win the whole thing.
The Frankhma vs. Castro was BS. The ref kept warning Frankham for everything. The fight ended in TKO for some reason. He's so sloppy and ineffective. May be the worst style I have ever seen, seriously. The only good thing he does is make his opponents feel uncomfortable by rushing in and pressuring his opponent, but he really isn't landing anything of significance. Frankham wasn't even holding that much but he got two warnings for that so it took away one of his weapons once Castro did get close. Castro never got a warning for leading with his head and coming in low which started some of the clinches. Piskunov is lighter on his feet than Franhkam, but it'll be interesting if he has to clinch and get warned in the first round like Frankham did even though he didn't hold that much at that point to be warned in the first place. Having said all of that, Frankham should have stayed relaxed. He started off the fight good and kept catching Castro with some good shots that snapped his head back, but it all changed once the ref warned him the first time. However, It is pretty hard to stay relaxed when the referee is only warning you. Castro shouldn't be here to begin with Vahe of Armenia beat him. I don't see how Castro won that. He couldn't even corner Vahe. Frankham needed to stay relaxed like Vahe did, but Vahe didn't get the decision so maybe it doesn't even matter.
Hopefully the ref isn't this bad for the Piskunov-Castro fight.
I like the way Melbyn Hernandez beat Money Powell. Solid performance. Sadriddin Akhmedov had to fight an Ulugbek Sobirov who was was really dirty. These Uzbek fighters are really doing a lot of dirty tactics and they aren't getting warned. I'm glad Akhmedov won. He was the only one trying to win the fight. Laszlo Kozak of Hungary looked good. Mohammed Akbar of England is a pretty good pressure fighter.
I was really impressed with Vezir Agirman (Germany); especially in the first two rounds he did get a little sloppy in that last one.
Michael Nevin of Ireland is class. I also liked what I saw from William Hutchison of Scotland and Diego Pereyra of Venezuela. Venezuelan boxers are starting to fight like Cubans. Sometimes they're even more effective than Cubans; I believe they have a Cuban coach, I could be wrong. Any of these four guys has a chance to take the Middleweight crown. Tough weight class.
Fighters that looked good:
56kg: Sam Goodman (Australia), Samatali Toltayev (Kazakhstan), Jianming Zeng (China), Nikita Piskunov (Russia)
69kg: Melbyn Hernandez (Venezuela), Sadriddin Akhmedov (Kazakhstan), Laszlo Kozak (Hungary), Mohammed Akbar (England)
75kg: Bek Nurmaganbet (Kazakhstan), Vezir Agirman (Germany), Michael Nevin (Ireland), William Hutchison (Scotland), Diego Pereyra (Venezuela)
91+kg: Aziz Mouhiidine (Italy) really stood out. Richard Torrez (USA) also looked pretty solid. He's fast for a Super Heavyweight, but looks rather short. They fought each other next if I'm not mistaken. The winner could very well end up winning the whole thing. Mahammad Abdullayev (Azerbaijan) may have something to say about that though.
Like what I see from Sam Goodman of Australia. Good boxer and I think he should/will medal.
Solid performance for Samatali Toltayev against a good boxer who was fighting pretty negative. I think Toltayev will make it to the final. Ali Alagas of Turkey did a nice job a walking down Alexei Rodriguez and even dropped him hard in the first round. Toltayev vs. Alagas should be good.
Shunkor Abdurasulov is such a dirty fighter. Jianming Zeng looks decent.
Another great performance by Nikita Piksunov. He looked fast, sharp, and dominated the whole fight. I think he will win the whole thing.
The Frankhma vs. Castro was BS. The ref kept warning Frankham for everything. The fight ended in TKO for some reason. He's so sloppy and ineffective. May be the worst style I have ever seen, seriously. The only good thing he does is make his opponents feel uncomfortable by rushing in and pressuring his opponent, but he really isn't landing anything of significance. Frankham wasn't even holding that much but he got two warnings for that so it took away one of his weapons once Castro did get close. Castro never got a warning for leading with his head and coming in low which started some of the clinches. Piskunov is lighter on his feet than Franhkam, but it'll be interesting if he has to clinch and get warned in the first round like Frankham did even though he didn't hold that much at that point to be warned in the first place. Having said all of that, Frankham should have stayed relaxed. He started off the fight good and kept catching Castro with some good shots that snapped his head back, but it all changed once the ref warned him the first time. However, It is pretty hard to stay relaxed when the referee is only warning you. Castro shouldn't be here to begin with Vahe of Armenia beat him. I don't see how Castro won that. He couldn't even corner Vahe. Frankham needed to stay relaxed like Vahe did, but Vahe didn't get the decision so maybe it doesn't even matter.
Hopefully the ref isn't this bad for the Piskunov-Castro fight.
I like the way Melbyn Hernandez beat Money Powell. Solid performance. Sadriddin Akhmedov had to fight an Ulugbek Sobirov who was was really dirty. These Uzbek fighters are really doing a lot of dirty tactics and they aren't getting warned. I'm glad Akhmedov won. He was the only one trying to win the fight. Laszlo Kozak of Hungary looked good. Mohammed Akbar of England is a pretty good pressure fighter.
I was really impressed with Vezir Agirman (Germany); especially in the first two rounds he did get a little sloppy in that last one.
Michael Nevin of Ireland is class. I also liked what I saw from William Hutchison of Scotland and Diego Pereyra of Venezuela. Venezuelan boxers are starting to fight like Cubans. Sometimes they're even more effective than Cubans; I believe they have a Cuban coach, I could be wrong. Any of these four guys has a chance to take the Middleweight crown. Tough weight class.
Fighters that looked good:
56kg: Sam Goodman (Australia), Samatali Toltayev (Kazakhstan), Jianming Zeng (China), Nikita Piskunov (Russia)
69kg: Melbyn Hernandez (Venezuela), Sadriddin Akhmedov (Kazakhstan), Laszlo Kozak (Hungary), Mohammed Akbar (England)
75kg: Bek Nurmaganbet (Kazakhstan), Vezir Agirman (Germany), Michael Nevin (Ireland), William Hutchison (Scotland), Diego Pereyra (Venezuela)
91+kg: Aziz Mouhiidine (Italy) really stood out. Richard Torrez (USA) also looked pretty solid. He's fast for a Super Heavyweight, but looks rather short. They fought each other next if I'm not mistaken. The winner could very well end up winning the whole thing. Mahammad Abdullayev (Azerbaijan) may have something to say about that though.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
Sessions 11A and 11B:
Bilolbek Mirzarakhimov (Uzbekistan) and Beslan Khamzaev (Russia) looked really good. Reo Saito of Japan is a good pressure fighter. He delivered some great body shots. El Mehdi Zridi (Morocco) should have gotten the decision over Delante Johnson (USA). Johnson looked good in his first fight but not so much here.
Hugo Micallef got robbed big against Gabriel Dossen of Ireland. Really liked what I saw from Rohan Polanco of the Dominican Republic. He didn't let his opponent do anything.
Airijus of Lithuania and Sergei Margarian of Russia both looked good. Unfortunate they had to fight each other before the medal rounds.
Like what I saw from Cristian Cangelosi of Italy. He did get really sloppy in that last round though.
Fighters that looked good:
60kg: Bilolbek Mirzarakhimov (Uzbekistan), Beslan Khamzaev (Russia), Reo Saito (Japan)
64kg: Rohan Polanco (Dominican Republic), Sergei Margaria (Russia), Damien Lescaille (Cuba), Tugrulhan Erdemir (Turkey), Cristian Cangelosi (Italy)
I realize a lot of the things I say are repetitive but I don't really want to comment in detail unless I feel like I need to explain.
Bilolbek Mirzarakhimov (Uzbekistan) and Beslan Khamzaev (Russia) looked really good. Reo Saito of Japan is a good pressure fighter. He delivered some great body shots. El Mehdi Zridi (Morocco) should have gotten the decision over Delante Johnson (USA). Johnson looked good in his first fight but not so much here.
Hugo Micallef got robbed big against Gabriel Dossen of Ireland. Really liked what I saw from Rohan Polanco of the Dominican Republic. He didn't let his opponent do anything.
Airijus of Lithuania and Sergei Margarian of Russia both looked good. Unfortunate they had to fight each other before the medal rounds.
Like what I saw from Cristian Cangelosi of Italy. He did get really sloppy in that last round though.
Fighters that looked good:
60kg: Bilolbek Mirzarakhimov (Uzbekistan), Beslan Khamzaev (Russia), Reo Saito (Japan)
64kg: Rohan Polanco (Dominican Republic), Sergei Margaria (Russia), Damien Lescaille (Cuba), Tugrulhan Erdemir (Turkey), Cristian Cangelosi (Italy)
I realize a lot of the things I say are repetitive but I don't really want to comment in detail unless I feel like I need to explain.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
Sessions 12A and 12B:
Nobody at 49kg really stood out in the Quarterfinals to be honest. I thought Billal Bennama deserved the decision over Dylan Price but wouldn't go as far as to say it was a robbery. It was pretty competitive.
52kg: Aidos Arapov (Kazakhstan) deserved the decision against Elio Crespo of Cuba. Arapov worked his butt off in that fight. I also felt Luis Nunez pulled of his fight but I had a feeling they wouldn't give it to him.
75kg: Bek Nurmaganbet (Kazakhstan) looked good, again. Vezir Agirman of Germany also looked good as did Michael Nevin (Ireland) and William Hutchison (Scotland). The semifinals should be good. Great weight class in my opinion.
81kg: Nobody really stood out.
91kg: Dainier Pero (Cuba) looked good. Both Lewis Williams (England) and Shokhruz Rakhimov (Uzbekistan) showed skill. Rakhimov definitely wanted it more and deserved the decision and he got it. Williams slowed down as the fight progressed. Both were really sloppy in that last round. Vladimir Uzunian (Russia) is a problem in this weight class.
91+kg: Richard Torrez looked pretty solid against an opponent that impressed me yesterday. He did get caught quite a few times in the later rounds though. His style may be an issue once he moves up to Elite level against better competition and no headgear just looking at the way he rushes in.
Justis Huni of Australia also looked good.
I must say the Quarterfinals were pretty disappointing. Hopefully the next two sessions don't disappoint.
Nobody at 49kg really stood out in the Quarterfinals to be honest. I thought Billal Bennama deserved the decision over Dylan Price but wouldn't go as far as to say it was a robbery. It was pretty competitive.
52kg: Aidos Arapov (Kazakhstan) deserved the decision against Elio Crespo of Cuba. Arapov worked his butt off in that fight. I also felt Luis Nunez pulled of his fight but I had a feeling they wouldn't give it to him.
75kg: Bek Nurmaganbet (Kazakhstan) looked good, again. Vezir Agirman of Germany also looked good as did Michael Nevin (Ireland) and William Hutchison (Scotland). The semifinals should be good. Great weight class in my opinion.
81kg: Nobody really stood out.
91kg: Dainier Pero (Cuba) looked good. Both Lewis Williams (England) and Shokhruz Rakhimov (Uzbekistan) showed skill. Rakhimov definitely wanted it more and deserved the decision and he got it. Williams slowed down as the fight progressed. Both were really sloppy in that last round. Vladimir Uzunian (Russia) is a problem in this weight class.
91+kg: Richard Torrez looked pretty solid against an opponent that impressed me yesterday. He did get caught quite a few times in the later rounds though. His style may be an issue once he moves up to Elite level against better competition and no headgear just looking at the way he rushes in.
Justis Huni of Australia also looked good.
I must say the Quarterfinals were pretty disappointing. Hopefully the next two sessions don't disappoint.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
Nikita Piskunov just dominated Marc Castro. I'm done. No way did Marc Castro win that. It's BS.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
I hope they can overturn decisions because there is no way Castro won that.
Piskunov didn't even let Castro do what he usually likes to do which is make the fight rough and ugly.
Piskunov kept pushing him back and showed better defense. Castro didn't even land any clean head shot.
Seriously, how is someone supposed to get a fair decision against Castro. I've seen people outbox him on the back foot and now Piskunov totally dominates him by pushing him back and he still doesn't get the decision. It's complete BS.
Marc Castro is horrible. One of the worst fighters I have ever seen.
Piskunov didn't even let Castro do what he usually likes to do which is make the fight rough and ugly.
Piskunov kept pushing him back and showed better defense. Castro didn't even land any clean head shot.
Seriously, how is someone supposed to get a fair decision against Castro. I've seen people outbox him on the back foot and now Piskunov totally dominates him by pushing him back and he still doesn't get the decision. It's complete BS.
Marc Castro is horrible. One of the worst fighters I have ever seen.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
I'm so mad right now. I didn't even finish the rest of the sessions and I don't think I'll watch the remainder of the tournament.
That was a disgusting robbery. I don't know how the judges favor Marc Castro so much.
Piskunov controlled everything. Pushed him back, showed better defense, caught Castro with some nice shots, and neutralized Castro completely. Seriously, Castro couldn't even fight the way he usually fights. What else do the judges want. Are you supposed to KO this guy to get a win?
I can tell AIBA really favors him for some odd reason.
Nikita Piskunov is the real winner. And he was robbed big time today!! I doubt they'll do anything, but they really need to overturn this decision.
That was a disgusting robbery. I don't know how the judges favor Marc Castro so much.
Piskunov controlled everything. Pushed him back, showed better defense, caught Castro with some nice shots, and neutralized Castro completely. Seriously, Castro couldn't even fight the way he usually fights. What else do the judges want. Are you supposed to KO this guy to get a win?
I can tell AIBA really favors him for some odd reason.
Nikita Piskunov is the real winner. And he was robbed big time today!! I doubt they'll do anything, but they really need to overturn this decision.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
You would think that Russia, since it's the host nation, would be receiving gift wins, but they've actually been unlucky to not get some wins that they deserved. I wouldn't be surprised if AIBA is trying to punish them for what happened in Rio.
The Russian team from Rio was horrible and they got gift decisions without a doubt. However, that doesn't mean they should punish Russia's young boxers. Seriously, Russia has some great talent coming up.
Nikita Piskunov is really talented, but I think there is even more talented boxers in Russia.
I really like what I see from Ilya Popov. Nikolay Marinichev (2015 European Schooboy Champion) is also really good. I even like what I see from Nikita Golovkin.
The Russian team from Rio was horrible and they got gift decisions without a doubt. However, that doesn't mean they should punish Russia's young boxers. Seriously, Russia has some great talent coming up.
Nikita Piskunov is really talented, but I think there is even more talented boxers in Russia.
I really like what I see from Ilya Popov. Nikolay Marinichev (2015 European Schooboy Champion) is also really good. I even like what I see from Nikita Golovkin.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
NIKITA PISKUNOV WAS ROBBED OF HIS CHANCE TO GET ANOTHER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GOLD AGAINST MARC CASTRO.
I hate how people keeps pretending like Castro is some amazing talent. This kid is so freaking sloppy, Piskunov didn't even let him fight his fight by the way. Everybody is going to either laugh or criticize his style as he gets more and more known. The kid is not that good!
Nikita Piskunov is the real winner today. Spread the word.
I hate how people keeps pretending like Castro is some amazing talent. This kid is so freaking sloppy, Piskunov didn't even let him fight his fight by the way. Everybody is going to either laugh or criticize his style as he gets more and more known. The kid is not that good!
Nikita Piskunov is the real winner today. Spread the word.
Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
So... what do you think of Marc Castro? Is he going places?HI-TECH Boxing wrote:NIKITA PISKUNOV WAS ROBBED OF HIS CHANCE TO GET ANOTHER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GOLD AGAINST MARC CASTRO.
I hate how people keeps pretending like Castro is some amazing talent. This kid is so freaking sloppy, Piskunov didn't even let him fight his fight by the way. Everybody is going to either laugh or criticize his style as he gets more and more known. The kid is not that good!
Nikita Piskunov is the real winner today. Spread the word.
Are the videos posted anywhere?
Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
OK, I found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXEDDeQ5fh0
59:57 for the Castro fight.
Not only was it not a robbery, I thought Castro won. Castro does not have a pretty style, it's true. He's awkward as hell. But he's like a buzz saw and he was landing more.
Hi-tech, stop getting so emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXEDDeQ5fh0
59:57 for the Castro fight.
Not only was it not a robbery, I thought Castro won. Castro does not have a pretty style, it's true. He's awkward as hell. But he's like a buzz saw and he was landing more.
Hi-tech, stop getting so emotional.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
I shouldn't be entertaining comments like this, for obvious reasons, but if I can complain more about Castro then I'll do it. My comments should tell you what I think of Marc Castro. He's one of the sloppiest "boxers" I've seen.pendrake wrote: So... what do you think of Marc Castro? Is he going places?
Are the videos posted anywhere?
If he keeps getting gift decisions like this then sky is the limit. Talent-wise, heck no. He's not that talented. People can keep telling him he's talented if they so wish to. It's going to be funny to see the comments people make once this guy becomes more known because his technique is horrible.
I don't know what AIBA and USA Boxing see in this kid.
They just robbed a talented boxer for a sloppy mess.
Waste.
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Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
pendrake wrote:OK, I found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXEDDeQ5fh0
59:57 for the Castro fight.
Not only was it not a robbery, I thought Castro won. Castro does not have a pretty style, it's true. He's awkward as hell. But he's like a buzz saw and he was landing more.
Hi-tech, stop getting so emotional.
There is no way he won. Even the people watching it live were in disbelief when they announced Castro as the winner.
Castro sucks. Piskunov should have won. Piskunov took Castro's whole game apart. Castro likes to come forward and make the fight ugly and rough. Piskunov pushed him back and bullied him. Castro didn't even land a clean head shot.
Re: 2016 World Youth Championships
I just don't think it's appropriate for you to just rant on a 16 year old kid here all day. It's obvious you had a bias against Castro from the beginning, even before your guy got "robbed".
He's a kid, a very nice one at that, and was world champion last time around as well. Maybe he deserves a little more respect than you calling him a profanity laced bum.
He's a kid, a very nice one at that, and was world champion last time around as well. Maybe he deserves a little more respect than you calling him a profanity laced bum.