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Friday, November 30, 2012

Fresno's Salazar Wins AIBA Youth Worlds Opener by Stoppage

By Ryan Maquiñana
Norcalboxing.net


Salazar (far right) moved on to Saturday. (Team Salazar)


Fresno amateur bantamweight Gary Salazar, who is part of USA Boxing’s five-boxer contingent at the AIBA Youth World Championships in Yerevan, Armenia, this week, won his opening bout by stopping Tajikistan's Shavkatbek Negmatov at 1:21 of the third round.  Salazar will now face Syria’s Ali Ghouson on Saturday afternoon.

Ryan Maquiñana was the boxing producer for NBCOlympics.com during London 2012 and writes a weekly column for CSNBayArea.com.  He is a full member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and the Ratings Panel for Ring Magazine. E-mail him at rmaquinana@gmail.com, check out his blog at Norcalboxing.net, or follow him on Twitter: @RMaq28.

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