Top Rank add another Olympic medal winner to their ranks

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Brazil's Esquiva Falcao, the silver medal winner at Middleweight, has signed for Top Rank ahead of his debut. Falcao, who lost to fellow Top Rank fighter Ryota Murata in the Olympic final and beat Britain's Anthony Ogogo on the way there, has interestingly gone the "other route" to his brother Yamaguchi Falcao who signed with Golden Boy Promotions back in October.

 

Aged 23 Esquiva Falcao is possibly the best Brazilian prospect in a generation and their most successful Olympic boxer of all time, reach the final at 2012 and becoming the first Brazilian boxer to reach any Olympic boxing final.

 

As well as Falcao's Olympic success he also claimed bronze at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships, losing again to Murata.

 

With the Rio Olympics in 3 years time there was a popular idea that both Falcao's would remain amateur until then though it seems nice contracts for both have managed to see them turning professional and hopefully reigniting boxing in Brazil.

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Re: Top Rank add another Olympic medal winner to their ranks

 

Brazil's Esquiva Falcao, the silver medal winner at Middleweight, has signed for Top Rank ahead of his debut. Falcao, who lost to fellow Top Rank fighter Ryota Murata in the Olympic final and beat Britain's Anthony Ogogo on the way there, has interestingly gone the "other route" to his brother Yamaguchi Falcao who signed with Golden Boy Promotions back in October.

 

Aged 23 Esquiva Falcao is possibly the best Brazilian prospect in a generation and their most successful Olympic boxer of all time, reach the final at 2012 and becoming the first Brazilian boxer to reach any Olympic boxing final.

 

As well as Falcao's Olympic success he also claimed bronze at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships, losing again to Murata.

 

With the Rio Olympics in 3 years time there was a popular idea that both Falcao's would remain amateur until then though it seems nice contracts for both have managed to see them turning professional and hopefully reigniting boxing in Brazil.

 

--- Top Rank has the best future in boxing lined up with future prospects and contenders.

 

Have a feeling though boxing in general is gonna see a serious drop off in the next few years. There's nobody new that is recognizable. Top Rank has really been moving hard in internationalizing it's ranks. Seems they're a little short in the Eastern European fighters, probably because those guys make good money now fighting in western Europe.