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Albert Batyrgaziev wins mens featherweight gold; USAs Duke Ragan claims silver Getty Images Getty Images Duke Ragan (red) of Team United States exchanges punches with Albert Batyrgaziev of Team Russian Olympic Committee. By: Simon Gibbs and last updated 2021-08-05 05:24:41-04 Duke Ragan came oh-so close to becoming the first U.S. mens boxer to win a gold medal in 17 years, when Andre Ward won in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. But ultimately, he came up just short, and the feathe...

13h Olympics 2021 - Boxers Keyshawn Davis, Richard Torrez Jr. and Duke Ragan are poised to end U.S. mens gold-medal drought Keyshawn Davis celebrates after defeating Russian Olympic Committees Gabil Mamedov in a mens lightweight 63-kg quarterfinal boxing match.  AP Photo/Frank Franklin II For decades, Team USA was the standard-bearer of Olympic boxing, a factory of future heavyweight champions no matter the weight class. Floyd Patterson won middleweight gold at the 1952 Helsinki Games before c...

American men havent won gold in boxing since Andre Ward at the 2004 Olympic Games. That could change in Tokyo, with three men in position to claim top honors. Can Keyshawn Davis, Richard Torrez Jr. and Duke Ragan end U.S. men’s boxing’s 17-year gold medal drought? By www.espn.com - TOP Aug 3, 2021 | 7:27 PM American men haven’t won gold in boxing since Andre Ward at the 2004 Olympic Games. That could change in Tokyo, with three men in position to claim top honors. ); } return ...

U.S. lightweight Keyshawn Davis clinches medal; looks to end mens gold-medal drought Getty Images and last updated 2021-08-02 23:24:28-04 U.S. lightweight boxer As Davis entered the third and final round of his quarterfinal fight with ROCs  Gabil Mamedov, four judges had the bout scored as a draw, and the final judge had it scored in favor of Mamedov. Needing an emphatic, dominant third-round performance to keep his gold medal hopes alive, Davis delivered: his combo consisted of a right jab,...

Olympics 2021: Is This The Year For The U.S. Men? 11 11 comments It’s easy to take things for granted when they happen so regularly.  For the United States, Olympic Gold medals were something one could take for granted for a long time. Sometimes, the men’s boxing team would win more. Sometimes less. They rarely left without one until it became a new normal. All time, the United States still stands as the all time leader in men’s and women’s boxing with the most ...

Keyshawn Davis rout caps 3-0 start for U.S. mens boxing in Tokyo Olympics Keyshawn Davis, a 3-0 pro widely hailed as Team USAs best hope to end the gold-medal boxing drought for the men, advanced to the round of 16 with a 5-0 victory over the Netherlands Enrico Lacruz on Saturday evening in Tokyo. Davis, 22, won all three rounds on all five cards. Hes looking to become the first male boxer to win gold for Team USA at the Olympics since Andre Ward in 2004. (Ward is currently an ESPN boxing analy...

Keyshawn Davis rout caps 3-0 start for U.S. mens boxing in Tokyo Olympics Keyshawn Davis, a 3-0 pro widely hailed as Team USAs best hope to end the gold-medal boxing drought for the men, advanced to the round of 16 with a 5-0 victory over the Netherlands Enrico Lacruz on Saturday evening in Tokyo. Davis, 22, won all three rounds on all five cards. Hes looking to become the first male boxer to win gold for Team USA at the Olympics since Andre Ward in 2004. (Ward is currently an ESPN boxing analy...

Photo by Edward A. Ornelas/Getty Images “It was a close fight, but in the sense that there were a lot of close rounds, and that is always a matter of appreciation. A judge can see an assault in one way, and another in another.” He went on to claim that if both of the other judges had scored the fight 117-111 for the Argentinian, he would be more concerned about how widely he scored it for Charlo. The suggestion here seems to be that if he had scored every round differently than the other tw...

Isley, lightweight Keyshawn Davis (3-0) and featherweight Duke Ragan (4-0) will become the first pro fighters ever to represent America in the Olympics after a pandemic-related change loosened the U.S. team’s eligibility requirements. The change gave Isley a chance to revive an Olympic dream he thought was dead after a disappointing upset loss in the 2019 U.S. Olympic trials. He’s determined to take advantage of his second chance when boxing begins in Tokyo on Saturday: Fighting at 165 poun...

The match Charlo started slow and gave away early rounds. However, sticking to his usual style, he finished strong. According to sportswriter Matt Young, all three judges had him sweeping the final three rounds and that earned him the draw. Charlo did not walk home as the undisputed champion but hopes to secure the WBO belt from Castano in a rematch. "I want that," Charlo said after the bout. "That’s my goal. That’s my destiny. We shall see."  Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano exchange punc...