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Cuban conquered, at last!
HAVANA. Aug 12: Cuban boxers can be beaten after all. Ju»t not by Americans, repo
A Puerto Rican fighter did Sunday what US boxers have failed to do. handing the pow erful Cuban team its first loss at the Pan American Games with a shocking upset of two-time Pan Am gold medalist Candeiario Duvergel.
third-round 8-count in a bruis ing battle with the veteran Duvergel. taking a 23-15 deci •ton before a disbelieving home crowd at the sweltering kid chocolate boxing arena.
Two US fighters also ad vanced. one despite a bloody battle with a canned ham. to give the Americans a mini three-fight winning streak and some rising confidence after a series of defeats
Acevedo, half of a Puerto Rican boxing brother combina tk%. rocked Duvergel repeat dyf In the second and third rounds to win the three-round decision at 139 pounds 163 kilograms). It was the first loss after 10 wins for the Cuban team, three against US fight
T am very happy and I hope that Puerto Rico is happy, too." said Acevedo, whose brother fights at 132 pounds (60 kilo gnnjs) "I was very confident by the second round and my
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meanwhile, survived yet another food problem for the US team.
This time it wasn't the quality of the food, but Johnston's haste to get Inside a canned ham bought for the team from a store for diplomats in
"I was opening the can and it got tight and may hand slipped under the sharp edge of the can." Johnston said
The wound to the middle finger of his right hand needed eight stitches to close, but only six hour* later Johnston was tn the ring for his first fight of the competition.
He dominated his 139-pound (6 3kl logram) fight
against Mark Leduc of Canada, winning a 12-6 decision.
"I wondered how 1 would punch." said Johnston. 18. "But they told me it would close up first thing in the ring, and it did. It didn't bother me at all."
Johnston's win. and that of teammate Kenneth Friday, put both In the semifinals, where they are guaranteed at least bronze medals.
"I came here to get a medal and I did," said Friday, who won his second fight at 125 pounds (57 kilograms). "Hopefully now it will be a gold