Yosvany Veitía Explained

Yosvany Veitía Soto (also spelled Yosbany, born 12 March 1992) is a Cuban amateur boxer in the light flyweight division who competed at the 2012 Olympics.^[1] He is a southpaw.

Career

At the 2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships he won a bronze medal.

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat Birzhan Zhakypov and two unknowns but was stopped by Mongolian defending champion Pürevdorjiin Serdamba.At the 2011 Pan American Games he lost the final to local Joselito Velázquez.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he beat Australian Billy Ward 26:4, then lost to eventual winner Zou Shiming 10:13.

He also holds two notable wins over Naoya Inoue, ranked as the world's best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring, the Boxing Writer's Association of America,^[2] The Transnational Boxing Ranking Board, ESPN, and fourth overall by BoxRec.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yosvany Veitía, segundo boxeador cubano eliminado en boxeo olímpico . Cubaencuentro.com . 4 August 2012 . es.
2. Web site: Boxing pound-for-pound rankings: Terence Crawford or Naoya Inoue? And what about Errol Spence Jr.? . ESPN.com . ESPN . 19 August 2023.
3. Web site: Ratings-The Ring . The Ring . 19 August 2023.
4. Web site: Terence Crawford Is The BWAA's New No. 1 Pound-For-Pound King . Boxing Writer's Association of America . 19 August 2023.
5. Web site: Transnational Boxing Rankings Board P4P Rankings . The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board . 19 August 2023.
6. Web site: BoxRec Male Pound for Pound Rankings . BoxRec . 19 August 2023.
7. Web site: Boxing VEITIA Yosbany. dead. 29 August 2021. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 29 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210829200213/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/boxing/athlete-profile-n1362274-veitia-yosbany.htm.