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August 22, 1984

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Havana, Cuba - Six Cubans fought and won six fights Monday in a quarterfinal boxing round of the post-Olympic Friendship '84 Games in Havana. Four of the victims were Soviets. But Bernardo Comas of Cuba, the world amateur middleweight boxing champion, and Pedro Reyes of Cuba, winner of the Rome boxing cup's flyweight division last year, both won questionable decisions against their Soviet opponents Monday night.

Comas closed the evening's 11-card bout by winning a split 3-2 decision over hard-punching Asylbek Kilimov, who suffered a cut over his left eye in the first round of the three-round fight. Kilimov knocked Comas to the floor in the second round and drove the Cuban champion to the ropes repeatedly with slashing punches in the final round.

The referee stopped the fight between Reyes and Yuri Vilischuk of the Soviet Union with 1:25 left in the third round. Reyes hit the Soviet boxer with a hard right, the fight-ending punch, after Vilischuk had battered the Cuban with left and right hands in the round. Adolfo Horta, another Cuban world champion in featherweight division, scored a convincing victory over a strong opponent, Franis Rauschning of East Germany.

Yuri Alexandrov of the Soviet Union, one of his country's two world amateur champions in the tournament, scored the only Soviet victory during the evening with a 5-0 win over Pavel Madura of Czechoslovakia in a bantamweight division fight. The other Soviet champion is Alexander Yagupkin, a super heavyweight.

The other action Monday, Ivan Filchev of Bulgaria won a split 3-2 decision over Mike Knuth of East Germany in a flyweight division fight. Galin Colev of Bulgaria scored a 5-0 decision over Tibor Bator of Hungary in a bantanweight fight. Jio Len Sik of North Korea was awarded a 4-1 decision over Tomas Nowak of Poland in the featherweight division. Enkbat Nergui of Mongolia won a 5-0 victory over Jristo Furnigov of Bulgaria in the lightweight division.

Ingo Benske of East Germany won a 4-1 victory over Tibor Buha of Czechoslovakia in a lightweight fight.