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- Updated: August 8, 2016
Galal Yafai suffered an agonising split decision defeat to world champion Joahnys Argilagos at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
The 23-year-old Yafai was up against the light-flyweight division’s No 1 seed in Cuba’s gifted 19-year-old and was edged out 29-28 29-28 28-29, despite taking the fight to his opponent throughout.
There was little mystique about Yafai’s tactics, as he came out determined to walk his man down. Seizing the initiative was always going to be a risky business against a man of Argilagos’ talents, and the world champion served a warning with an early two-punch combination.
The pair exchanged solid left hooks in the opening minute but it was the Cuban’s work that looked the neater as he used his classy-looking reflexes to pick some accurate …
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