Stalker, La Cruz stunned at Olympic boxing
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Great Britain's THomas Stalker reacts as he leaves the ring following a fight against Mongolia's Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg in a men's quarterfinal light welterweight 64-kg boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Great Britain's Thomas Stalker, right, and Mongolia's Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg react following a light welterweight 64-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Great Britain's Thomas Stalker, right, fights Mongolia's Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg in a light welterweight 64-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Cuba's Julio La Cruz Peraza,, right, and Brazil's Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino react following a light heavyweight 81-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Cuba's Julio La Cruz Peraza, left, fights Brazil's Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino in a light heavyweight 81-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Brazil's Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino reacts after defeating Cuba's Julio la Cruz Peraza in a men's quarterfinal light heavyweight 81-kg boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Brazil's Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino reacts after defeating Cuba's Julio La Cruz Peraza in a light heavyweight 81-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Brazil's Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino reacts after defeating Cuba's Julio La Cruz Peraza in a light heavyweight 81-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
LONDON (AP) — Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg of Mongolia pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the Olympic boxing tournament Wednesday night, stunning second-seeded light welterweight Tom Stalker of Britain and his home crowd with a 23-22 victory.
Yamaguchi Falcao of Brazil also upset top-seeded Cuban light heavyweight Julio La Cruz 18-15 in an eventful final day of quarterfinal bouts.
Chinese light flyweight Zou Shiming barely avoided an upset as well, holding off Kazakhstan's Birzhan Zhakypov 13-10 to clinch his third Olympic medal.
Zou's next bout is against Ireland's Paddy Barnes, a tantalizing rematch of Zou's 15-0 victory in Beijing.
Cuban light welterweight Roniel Iglesias also clinched his second Olympic medal.
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