Olympic Boxing Results: Team U.S., Jose Ramirez & Terrell Gausha Quotes, Notes and more from London 2012
By Media Report (Aug 3, 2012) Doghouse Boxing
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The United States’ Jose Ramirez and Terrell Gausha Fall Short at the 2012
Olympic Games
(LONDON, ENGLAND) – The U.S. Olympic Boxing Team was
unable to end its losing streak on Thursday following two closely contested
losses in second round action at the 2012 Olympic Games. Lightweight Jose Ramirez’s (Avenal, Calif.) slow
start cost him with Uzbekistan’s Fazliddin
Gaibnazarov while middleweight Terrell
Gausha (Cleveland, Ohio) dropped a one-point heartbreaker to former Olympic
medalist Vijender of India.
Ramirez
took the ring first, looking to add to his win total at the 2012 Olympic Games.
Yet Gaibnazarov was more active in the first round and the Uzbekistani boxer
took a 6-2 lead after the first round. Ramirez picked up his output in the
second round, particularly late in the round but faced a 12-5 deficit with
three minutes remaining in the bout. Ramirez wasted no time getting started in
the third round, firing shots from bell-to-bell but his late efforts weren’t
enough and he dropped a 15-11 final decision. The loss eliminates Ramirez from
the 2012 Olympic Games.
“I came out strong in the third. I
always have good conditioning but my slow start hurt. At the end, in the last
round I tried to throw more punches, I know he was tired. I knew he didn’t have
that much left. He just fought the smarter fight,” Ramirez said.
Less than
an hour later, Gausha stepped through the ropes for his second bout of the
Olympic Games against Indian star Vijender. The opening round was a tactical
match-up between the two skilled boxers and Vijender took a slim 4-3 lead.
Gausha showcased his strong right hand and jab in the second, hoping to claim
the lead in the bout, but Vijender maintained his one-point lead. The bout went
into the final round up for grabs and the two boxers battled it out for the
victory with several exciting exchanges highlighting the last three minutes.
However only one could be named the victor and at the end of nine minutes of
action, it was Vijender’s hand whose hand was raised. He pulled out a 16-15
decision over Gausha to end the American middleweight’s run at gold.
“I knew it was a close fight, I wasn’t
sure which way they were going to go with the decision. I was just hoping that
I got the nod because I put everything out there. Unfortunately I didn’t but
I’m just going to continue to keep working hard,” Gausha said.
Two more
American boxers will compete on Friday night as three-time Olympian Rau’shee Warren (Cincinnati, Ohio)
makes his 2012 Olympic Games debut in a flyweight contest with France’s Nordine Oubaali at 8:30 p.m. London
time (3:30 p.m. ET). Welterweight Errol
Spence (Desoto, Texas) will return to the ring for his second bout with
India’s Krishan Vikas at 9:30 p.m.
London time (4:30 p.m. ET).
Warren
and Spence are the two remaining U.S. male participants while the three
American women will open competition on August 5 and 6.
U.S. Results
132 lbs:
Fazliddin Gaibnarzarov, UZB, dec. Jose
Ramirez, Avenal, Calif./USA, 15-11
165 lbs:
Vijender, IND, dec. Terrell Gausha,
Cleveland, Ohio/USA, 16-15
Jose Ramirez Quotes
“I’m a
little disappointed and a little emotional at the same time.”
“It’s
over now and I didn’t get the victory, but I know it will open bigger doors for
the future.”
“I felt
like a lot of punches hit my glove before they hit me. I guess it’s the
combinations. It’s true, he threw a lot of punches at the beginning. I guess my
patience in the ring wasn’t as positive for me this time. He had a quicker
start than me and he got the victory. I’m just blessed I got this opportunity
and its time to enjoy the experience now.”
“If I had this opportunity again, I
would start a lot faster. I am just very glad I got this experience. This
Olympics were wonderful. It brought a lot of hope and a lot of light back to my
town. It’s going to open a lot of doors and I’m pretty excited to enter them.”
“We did come as a team and we did stay
strong as a team but I think today was me. I came up short myself.”
“(Knocking him out) was in my head the
whole third round. I know I landed a solid punch. I knew if I was to land
another one, I was going to hurt him and possibly stop him. The ref could have
warned him more for holding the last round but he played it smart. One round
wasn’t enough for me.”
“It’s sad that we came up short, it’s
such a hungry team, a young team. I guess not much international experience, we
came and I’m sure we all did our best.”
Terrell Gausha Quotes
“I gave it everything. I thought I was
doing good in the fight. I did everything they told me to do. I think it was
working for me. I didn’t get the decision but its nothing to hold my head down
about.”
“I thought I pulled the second round
off, but at the end of the day I’ve still go to respect the judge’s decisions.
This isn’t the end of Terrell Gausha.”
“I didn’t feel bad because I did
everything I could and the world was watching so obviously they have their
opinion on who won and who didn’t.”
“I just wanted to work behind the jab
and get in there and mix it up. Not to take anything away from my opponent but
I felt that I edged him a little.”
“After defeat, I still hold my head
up. It’s unfortunate that we’ve been losing all these fights but we’ve still
got people in there and we just have to stay positive.”
“Our coaches were spectacular; we
trained hard. I don’t think there’s anything else we could have done. I’ll just
watch the tape and see what I did wrong. There’s always room for improvement.”
“(These kind of decisions) come with
the territory. This is amateur boxing. A lot of great champions lost in the
amateurs so it’s nothing to hold my head down about. It happens to the best of
them.”
“I’ve been watching boxing all my
life. I’ve watched bad decisions like Roy Jones, etc., but it happens in the
sport. You have to be ready to take the good with the bad. “
“It’s unfortunate because I wanted to
lift American boxing back up, but we still have Rau’shee Warren and Errol
Spence and the three ladies so I’m looking forward to seeing them win when they
compete.”
“I always say I’m going to put
everything into it and when I get out of the ring, I can’t say I could have
done this or I could have done that so I’m going to hold my head up. I trained
hard and sacrificed a lot to get here so I’m just blessed to be in this
position.”
“I just want to go home and spend time
with my daughter, take her to Disneyland and enjoy time with my family. This
isn’t the end of me, I’m going to keep training and eventually you’ll see me
back in the ring.”
“I’m going to stay here and support my
team.”
“I watched a little bit of him. My
coaches broke him down and watched a little bit of tape. I knew he was an
Olympic bronze medalist but at the end of the day, he’s just another man
getting in the ring. I was looking forward to beating him, but he got the decision.”
“He landed some shots but it’s boxing
so you’re gonna get hit and you’re gonna give some. I think I was hitting him
and they were going back and forth with the cheering. Obviously he’s been
around the game and got a bronze medal so people are going to be cheering for
him. He had a lot of supporters, I’m not mad at that.”
“The right hand is one of my weapons
and I’m going to continue to use it.”
USA Boxing, as the
national governing body for Olympic-style boxing, is the United States’ member
organization of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) and a
member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).
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