Moroccan Boxer Makes Headlines in Cuban Cup

Moroccan middleweight Harnouf Said knocked out Cuban Osnai Bencomo achieving thus the most striking outcome of the second date of "Roberto Balado" Boxing Cup, underway in the Sports City Coliseum, in Havana City.

Bencomo was better in the first round but the visitor hit him with a straight punch to his face and that was enough for him.

The local light welterweights Jorge Navarro and Livan Moirán beat both 3-0 Venezuelan Jonathan Valarezo and Hungarian Nyeki Georgian, respectively, and the also Cuban cruiser Frank Sanchez defeated Colombian Juan Carlos Carrillo, in evening where the winners of his division secured bronze medals.

The foreign winners yesterday were Ecuadorian and Moroccan light flyweights Carlos Quipo and Elbekkali Azouhair, in that order and Venezuelan welterweight Keiber Gonzalez.