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Li Yang (boxer)
Li Yang () is a Chinese amateur boxer best known for winning a bronze medal at featherweight at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago. He lost in the semifinal to Vasyl Lomachenko +13:13 (countback). World Amateur Championships 2005 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated Fong Vou Wai (Hong Kong) 22-2 *Defeated Sodgerel Battur (Mongolia) 23-8 *Lost to Alexey Shaydulin (Bulgaria) walk-over 2007 (as a featherweight) *Defeated Tomas Vano (Slovakia) RSCO 3 *Defeated Koba Pchakadze (Georgia) 15-2 *Defeated Carlos Zambrano (Peru) 13-4 *Defeated Anthresh Lalit Lakra (India) 17-6 *Lost to Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine) 13-13 Olympic Games 2008 (as a featherweight) *Defeated Robson Conceiçao (Brazil) 12-4 *Defeated Luis Porozo (Ecuador) 6-5 *Lost to Vasyl Lomachenko Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko ( uk, Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко, ; also spelled Vasiliy; born 17 February 1988) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held multiple world ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling. Boxing Professional boxing History A featherweight boxer weighs in at a limit of . In the early days of the division, this limit fluctuated. The British have generally always recognized the limit at 126 pounds, but in America the weight limit was at first 114 pounds. An early champion, George Dixon (boxer), George Dixon, moved the limit to 120 and then 122 pounds. Finally, in 1920 the United States fixed the limit at 126 pounds. The 1860 fight between Nobby Clark and Jim Elliott is sometimes called the first featherweight championship. However, the division only gained wide acceptance in 1889 after the Ike Weir–Frank Murphy fight (one of the most famous fights of all time). Since the end of the 2000s and early 2010s the featherweight division is one of the most active in boxing with fighters such as Orlando Salido, Chris John (boxer), Chris John, Juan Manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |