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Olympic Boxing 2016: Medal Winners, Scores and Monday's Results

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Russia's Evgeny Tishchenko took the gold medal in the men's 91-kilogram boxing final at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Monday despite appearing to be outclassed by Kazakhstan's Vassiliy Levit.

The latter seemed to land the fight's biggest shots, but Tishchenko consistently earned the favourable scores between rounds before what proved to be a controversial decision became official.

RTE journalist Rob Wright made his disapproval of the verdict clear:

That's a disgusting decision to give that fight to Evgeny Tishchenko. Can't believe that the judges honestly thought he won #boxing

— Rob Wright (@wright_rob) August 15, 2016

So did BT Sport's Jake Humphrey:

Levit clearly won that fight in the #boxing.