Mexico’s Pan American Games 2023 light-middleweight champion, Marco Alonso Alvarez claimed Africa’s 13th victim at the Paris Olympics boxing tournament on Wednesday, July 31.
He scored a 3-2 split points victory over Mozambican Commonwealth Games silver medallist, Tiago Muxanga in a scrappy bout characterized by wild punches.
Unliken in his first fight, Muxanga lacked composure against the Mexican and decided to fight instead of boxing him.
With that defeat, Muxanga becomes the 13th African boxer to make an exit in the Paris Games with ten boxers now remaining in the battle for top honours.
Earlier, Egypt’s Omar Elawady did shadow boxing for the better part of the fight against Uzbekistan’s world champion Asadkhuja Muydibkhujaev who deservedly won their round of 16 light-middleweight bout by a unanimous decision.
The elusive southpaw Uzbek was swift in the ring, evading most of Elawady’s punches on his way to the quarter-finals.
Six African female boxers are in action on Thursday, August 1, with Morocco’s bantamweight Widad Bertal featuring in the quarter-finals while Algerian flyweight Roumaysa Boualam, and welterweights, DR Congo’s Brigitte Mbabi, Algeria’s Imane Khelif, Cape Verde’s Ivanusa Moreira and Alcinda Dos Santos of Mozambique appearing in the pre-quarters.
Credit: AFBC Communications
