was hoping to become only the fourth boxer to win three Olympic gold medals alongside Teofilo Stevenson, Felix Savon and Lazlo Papp. In his way was Cuban-born Loren Alfonso of Azerbaijan.

Lazizbek Mullojonov won the heavyweight title Friday night, joining a remarkable Olympic lineage at that weight including Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Teofilo Stevenson, Felix Savon and Oleksandr ...