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Saturday, September 23
One more U.S. boxer in action Saturday
SYDNEY, Australia -- Rocky Juarez helped set up an Olympic
quarterfinals match between featherweight champions with a narrow
victory in a second-round bout Saturday night.
|  | | Jermain Taylor lands a hard right punch on Canadian boxer Scott MacIntosh. |
The 20-year-old Juarez, the world 125-pound champion from
Houston, now will box Somluck Kamsing of Thailand, the 125-pound
champion at the 1996 Olympics on Wednesday.
Juarez, scoring mostly with rights to the head, outpointed Falk
Huste of Germany 17-15, while Kamsing beat Tulkunbay Turgunov of
Uzbekistan 7-2.
Jermain Taylor of Little Rock, Ark., reach the round of eight in
the 156-pound class with a 23-9 decision over Scott McIntosh of
Canada, whom Taylor had beaten in the semifinals of an Olympics
qualifying tournament at Tampa, Fla.
Then super heavyweight Calvin Brock of Charlotte, N.C., became
the fourth U.S. boxer to lose. He took a standing out count, was
knocked down and stopped in the fourth round on the 15-point rule
(21-5) by Italy's Paolo Vidoz of Italy, a bronze medalist at the
1999 world championships.
Eight Cubans have reached the quarterfinals.
Juarez, who beat Huste 12-6 in the quarterfinals at the world
championships last year in Houston, clinched his victory this time
with a scoring blow late in the fourth round for a 17-14 lead.
Four times Juarez led by three points, but never for very long.
Each boxer got a couple of points for body blows. In some bouts
judges have ignored punches to body.
Juarez recorded three points with right uppercuts. One of them
in the second round knocked out Huste's mouthpiece.
"I was tired, but this is not the time to get tired," Juarez
said. "I went out there and threw everything I had. We left
everything in the ring. With my conditioning I can beat anybody out
there."
Kamsing, an excellent defensive fighter, circled and backpedaled
and Turgunov could not get inside on him. Three of the Thai's
points were scored in the final round.
The 22-year-old Taylor started as if looking to knock out
MacIntosh. He was wild with several right hands as the first round
ended at 1-1.
Taylor settled down in the second round and registered three of
the last four scoring blows for a 7-4 lead. He settled the issue in
the second round when he landed six consecutive rights for an 18-6
lead.
Taylor denied he was trying to end the fight early.
"I wasn't trying to knock him out," he said. "I got a little
anxious because he was running. It was hard for me to catch up with
him. I don't worry about anybody. I take them all as they come."
Taylor will box Adnan Catic of Germany in the quarterfinals Wednesday.
Brock was simply outclassed in the last two rounds. After a 2-2
first round, Brock fell behind 6-3 and then took a battering in the
third round when he took a standing eight-count and was outscored
11-3.
In the final round, Vidoz knocked Brock down with a left hook to
the body. The fight was stopped seconds from the final bell, with
Vidoz getting in an extra scoring blow before the action was
halted.
Cubans winning Saturday night were Yosvany Zamora, who beat
Bulgarian Juri Mladenov 15-8 at 125 pounds, and Juan Hernandez, an
Olympic silver medalist at 147 pounds in 1992-96, who stopped
Mohamed Marmouri of Tunisia on the 15-point rule (19-3) in the
third round at 156 pounds.
In the afternoon Cuban super heavyweight Alexis Rubalcaba
knocked out Cengiz Koc with a crashing right to the jaw in the
first round.
Koc landed on his back. The referee immediately signaled the
fight was over and a physician rushed into the ring. The German
remained down for a couple of minutes, but he was able to walk from
the ring.
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