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Ray Downey
Raymond Tyler Downey (born September 23, 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian boxing, boxer, who won a Olympic medalists in boxing, light middleweight bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1990 he gained silver at the Boxing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, 1990 Commonwealth Games. He is a member of Nova Scotia's ''"Boxing Downeys"'' family of fighters. His father was boxer David Downey. Raymond has four children a son Tylor Flint, daughter Raya Flint, also two younger daughters Genevia and Summer Downey. Amateur highlights * Ray Downey was a bronze medallist in the light middleweight classification for Canada at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. His Olympic results were: 1988 Seoul Olympics ** Round of 64: Defeated Jorge López (boxer), Jorge López (Argentina) by decision, 5-0 ** Round of 32: Defeated Norbert Nieroba (West Germany) by decision, 3-2 ** Round of 16: Defeated Abrar Hussain Syed (Pakistan) by decision, 5-0 ** Quarterfinal: Defeated Martin Kit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to western boxing, in which only fists are involved, it has developed in different ways in different geographical areas and cultures of the World. In global terms, "boxing" today is also a set of combat sports focused on Strike (attack), striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions, such as kicks, Elbow (strike), elbow strikes, Knee (strike), knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of these variants are the bare-knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
