Four-time world light heavyweight champion Julio La Cruz of Cuba made light work of Kenya’s Elly Ajowi in their Tokyo Olympics heavyweight (81kg-91kg) bout on Tuesday.
La Cruz registered a 5:0 win in the contest.
Julio la Cruz has been very successful in the light heavyweight division where he won four successive world championships gold medals.
Earlier on at the same Arena, Brazil’s Abner Teixeira stunned Great Britain’s Cheavon Clarke in their last 16 round to advance to the quarterfinals in a thrilling bout.
The Great Britain man, who is the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, was given the first round before the Brazilian did enough to convince four of the five judges to give him the second. BY DAILY NATION