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Cuban Boxer Osmay Acosta Defeats World Champion Clemente Russo in Ukraine
According JIT website Osmay, continental champion, beat Russo 4-2 and this is the most relevant in the Cuban performance in Kiev, Ukraine.

On the other hand, the Latin American News Agency, that quotes Granma news paper, says that another Cuban fighter, Yordanis Ugas, 2005 World Champion, beat Vladimir Matyeychuk 12-6 while Andry Laffita beat Italian Vicenzo Picardi 10-3.

Other winners were Emilio Correa (middleweight), bantamweight Rosniel Iglesias and welterweight Carlos Banteur, while Cuban fighters with defeats were Idel Torriente, Julio Cesar la Cruz and superheavyweight Robert Alfonso, all of them against Russian fighters.

The Boxing Cup counted on the participantions of 120 fighters from twenty countries and was the second training stage in Europe for the Caribbean team in the current season.

(Tiempo21.cu)


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