The third day of the AIBA world youth championships being held at he Serhedchi Sports Complex in Baku delivered an action packed day of knock out boxing with larger and smaller countries booking their place in the final thirty two places.

Source of photo & article AIBA. 27-04-2010

The morning's action in the flyweight and featherweight categories saw plenty of easy victories for the stronger boxers, with scores approaching the twenties and considerable margins.

In the flyweight division, Junior World Champion Theo Krechlok breezed through to the next round with an 8:0 victory over Sri Lanka's Disnaka Herath Mudiyanselage.

Asian Continental Youth Champion Jiang Jinyong also progressed with ease on the morning's biggest winning margin, allowing his opponent Ivan Strashnyi from Ukraine only one scoring punch in his 19:1 victory

One of the individuals on the receiving end of this punishing treatment was "Road to Baku" training camp graduate Billy Solis Cocinero from Guatemala, who was outpointed by the Czech Republic's Duan Chromy 14:2.

Eduard Marriaga Campo, another Road to Baku participant, also lost his bout at featherweight. "I don't feel like a loser," he said. "I feel very proud to have competed for my country. I'm thankful for having had this opportunity and it's a shame that I lost by just one point but I must go home to better myself for the next time."

Two of the training camp boys made it through to the next round. Muhammad Oryakhil from Afghanistan (64kg) and Islomzhon Dalibaev (69kg) from neighbouring Kyrgyzstan are both through to the final 32.

In the next round, Oryakhil will face China's Wu Jiamin, who eliminated the Panamerican Youth Champion Prichard Colon Melandez from Puerto Rico today. Dalibaev will face fierce opposition from Thailand's Pitiphong Samphaolon, who beat Hungary's Szilard Szabo by knock-out today.

In the afternoon session, the light welterweight encounter between Scotland's Hugh Gray and Nigeria's Riliwan Oladosu was the perfect way to warm the home crowd up for their boxer Tamerlan Abdullayev's encounter.

The Nigerian surged ahead but Gray pulled back in the final round to tie the scores 11:11 at the end of the nine minutes and then win on the accepted scores.

"I knew it was pretty close after the first round. I think I was down three points. The second round I just started picking up and catching him and he was too tired. So I just kept cutting him off and catching him up. I feel brilliant."

Abdullayev followed immediately after on the same ring and edged ahead in another close contest to beat India's Harpal Singh 8:7.

In the middleweight contest Cuba's Frank Sanchez notched up the day's second knock-out against Mongolia's Boldkhuyag Gunbazar when the score was only 1-0. The Panamerican Youth Champion at 81kg seemed to have little problem competing at the lower weight on the international stage.

Sanchez will face the 2009 Junior World Champion Joe Ward from Ireland in the next round. As Ward also progressed with ease today, the head-to-head encounter between the two promises to be the highlight of the next round at middleweight.

The small country of Wales only has 110 boxing clubs and 1860 registered boxers at junior and senior level but it completed its opening bouts with an impressive performance.

Four of its five boxers progressed to the next round and the last one to do so did it in style. Liam Williams knocked out Jordan's Maher Eda'is cold in the first round of his middleweight bout, leaving the ringside medical staff to coax his opponent back to his feet and leave the ring.