Super-Heavyweight (>91 kilograms), Men

Bakhodir Dzhalolov of Uzbekistan had slowly established himself as the best amateur boxer in the world since the 2016 Olympics although he had also dabbled with professional boxing in the USA during the period of 2018-2019.

The #2 seed, Kamshybek Kunkabayev of Kazakhkstan, lost to American Richard Torrez, already a winner over Cuba’s Dainier Peró, via a cut-eye stoppage in the quarter-final. Frazer Clarke won by disqualification over France’s Mourad Aliev in the semi-final when the Frenchman was disqualified for illegal use of the head. In protest, Aliev spent 30 minutes sitting on the ring apron after the fight and left the arena only to return to the same spot later.

Clarke attempted to continue into the semi-final and briefly scored a standing count on Dzhalolov before his injured eyes let him down once more and forced his retirement from the fight. Torrez began the final quite brightly, but could not cope with the raw power or size of the Uzbek and slumped to a second-round defeat.