RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's Hebert Sousa waded through a sea of punches to score a dramatic, one-punch knockout of Ukraine's Oleksandr Khyzhniak to win the Gold medal in the men's middleweight division. A single left hook put Khyzhniak down on the canvas, with referee Muhammad Arisa Putra Pohan signaling an immediate end to the fight at 1:29 of round three.
Khyzhniak—the tournament's number-one seed at middleweight—was ahead 20-18 on all five scorecards and was well on his way to securing Gold before getting clipped with a shot he never . . .
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