Wednesday marked a day of great controversy and triumph for boxing at the 2016 Olympics, highlighted by Kazakhstan's Daniyar Yeleussinov's gold medal in the men's welterweight (152 lbs) final.
Yeleussinov's win was the main event of boxing today, but there were three other matches, including American Claressa Shields knocking off Russia's Yaroslava Yakushina to reach the semifinals of the women's 165-pound class.
The other top story of the day was the International Boxing Association announcing that an unspecified number of referees and judges were dismissed following a review of several decisions that were substandard, per A.