Olympics 2012 Men's Boxing Results: Light Fly, Bantam, Light Welter, Middle and Heavy Weight Winners From Saturday's Finals

Aug 11, 2012 06:03 PM EDT

Here are the results of the gold medalits in Men's Boxing on Saturday in the finals at the 2012 London Olympics. 

In the first fight, the Men's Light Fly weight class, Zou Shiming defeated Kaeo Pongprayoon 13-10. He won all three rounds 2-1, 4-3, 7-6. Pongprayoo took the silver.

Following this fight, the Men's Bantam Weight had Ireland's John Joe Nevins lost to Great Britain's Luke Campbell. Campbell took the first round, but lost the second. He fought back to win the third and claim the gold medal.

The Light Welter weight followed and Cuba's Roniel Sotolongo Iglesias took the gold after defeating Ukraine's Denys Berinchyk by a whopping 22-15 score. The first two rounds were close as Iglesias only led by two points heading to the final round. He fought well in the third and won the round 11-6.

In the Men's Middle weight class, Japan's Ryota Murata escaped with a win after winning the first round 5-3. Florentino Falcao then took the second round 5-4 and both fighters tied in the third round 5-5. Murata won 14-13.

In the last match for gold, Italy's No. 1 ranked in the weight class, Clemente Russo, lost his match against Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk 14-11. Usyk lost the first round 1-3 but took the second and third rounds 7-5, 6-3. 

To add to his victory, Usyk danced in the middle of the ring. He did a split in midair and then galloped around in the ring, not shy to express his happiness.

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