Brazil and China lead the way with five wins each on day three of ‘World Boxing Cup –Brazil 2026,Foz DoIguaça’

Day three of the ‘World Boxing Cup – Brazil 2026, Foz Do Iguaça’ saw the hosts and China take centre stage as both finished with five wins each.

On a day which saw 52 more bouts across the men and women’s weight classes, the home nation showcased its strength in depth, as two boxers that won medals at last year’s World Boxing Championships entered the tournament

At lightweight division (M60kg) world silver medallist, Luis Oliviera (M60kg) secured a routine unanimous victory over Uruguay’s Luca Fernadez, while in the women’s category (W60kg) world champion, Rebeca Santos, had to work much harder to edge a 3:2 win over Gizem Ozer of Turkey.

Other Brazilian winners included middleweight (M75kg) Thauan Silva, light-heavyweight (M80kg) Wanderley Pereira and light-middleweight, Vivianne Pereira who defeated Australia’s, World Boxing Championship silver medallist, Lekeisha Pergoloti in the women’s light-middleweight (W70kg) category.

It was one of two big surprises in the women’s light-middleweight division, which also saw the reigning world champion, Natalya Bogdanova of Kazakhstan, lose 4:0 to Türkiye’s Busenaz Surmeneli, who has moved-up from the W65kg category, where she was ranked number four in the world.

Not to be outdone by the hosts, China equalled Brazil’s achievement of five wins on the day with victories for bantamweight (W54kg) Yunma Gan, lightweight (W60kg) Yu Tian and light-middleweight (W70kg) Liu Yang in the women’s competition, and lightweight Jiabao Yuan (M60kg) and light-heavyweight (M80kg) Hao Ran Do in the men’s weights.

The draw, schedule, and all of today’s results are available HERE. 

The action continues tomorrow with 48 bouts across two sessions and includes 16 quarter finals in the evening session at light-flyweight (W48kg), bantamweight (W54kg), middleweight (W75kg) for women and heavyweight (M90kg) for men.

The sessions will start at 15:00 and 21:00 local time. All of the action from every day of competition will be livestreamed on the Confederação Brasileira de Boxe YouTube channel, available HERE.

World Boxing will be posting updates throughout the competition on its social media channels: