Cuban Boxing Championship Brings Pleasant Surprises

At the height of the consecrated the world junior champion Javier Ibáñez (Matanzas) defeated today Norlan Yera (Villa Clara) in the best fight registered in the first three dates of Playa Girón boxing tournament.

I felt myself strong all the time, due to the training I've made, and I'm here for a good result, the also monarch of the Youth Olympic Games said after beating 3-0 the Cuban featherweight leader in 2011.

This was Ibañez´s second win and on Friday he will face Livan Alcolea ( Camaguey) for the silver medal and if succeeding he would surely fight in the final against the favorite and Olympic champion Robeisy Ramírez ( Cienfuegos).

The evening took a special nuance since the organizers made public the joy of Cuban boxing for the return of the three remaining antiterrorist unjustly imprisoned in the United States.

In yesterday other fights, the cruiserweight Erislandy Savon (Guantanamo) beat 3-0 Yunier Pérez (Havana) without requiring too much effort.

The best man in the 4th World Series of Boxing will face today José Chapotín (Artemisa), who defeated 3-0 Duniel Dueñas (Pinar del Rio), while the other semifinalists of the division will be Henrich Ruiz (Isla de la Juventd and Frank Sanchez ( Guantanamo).

The flyweight division already put names to its medalists and the merit corresponded to Santiago Amador (Matanzas), Lazaro Barrueto (Matanzas), Eriel Pérez (Camaguey) and Luis Correoso (Holguin).

Still in the preliminary stage, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist Emilio Correa (Havana) and the Central American champion Arlen Lopez (Guantanamo) took steps at middleweight division to beat Humberto Guerra (Las Tunas) and Williams Scull (Matanzas), in that order.

Finally, the super heavyweight gold medalist in Veracruz 2014 Yoandris Toirac (Matanzas) had a weak rival in Carlos Castillo (Havana), whom he defeated by TKO, and the same happened with Leinier Pero (Camaguey), winner 3-0 over Adrian Gonzalez (Havana).