Who has the best punch? Punching Prowess of Carlo Paalam & Galal Yafai Comparison

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Who has the best punch? Punching Prowess of Paalam & Yafai Comparison!

Galal Yafai of Great Britain won the most coveted Gold medal in boxing in Tokyo 2020 Olympics defeating Carlo Paalam from the Philippines.

Lets get to know the two champs:

CARLO PAALAM
Carlo Paalam (born July 16, 1998) is a Filipino amateur boxer. As of April 2021, he is ranked number 12 in the men's flyweight division at the Amateur International Boxing Association rankings.

Paalam has qualified and is expected to compete for his first Olympic appearance in July 2021 at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. He is one of the six Filipino athletes who have qualified for the games as of April 2021. He is also a gold medalist in 30th SEA Games light flyweight division.

In 2019, he took home his first Southeast Asian Games gold medal at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games which was hosted at home in the Philippines.

He made his debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in July 2021 after qualifying through the IOC-BTF standings “by virtue of their highest standings in their respective weight categories (in the Olympic qualifying rankings)”, after the remaining qualifying tournaments at that time were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He pulled a victory by a split decision against Irish flyweight boxer Brendan Irvine and advanced to the Round 16 Quarterfinals. He then won by a Unanimous Decision against World Championship Silver and Bronze Medalist Mohamed Flissi of Algeria. He then pulled an upset victory against reigning Olympic gold medalist Shakhobidin Zoirov or Uzbekistan by a 4-1 split decision as the fight was halted due to both fighters having cuts and injuries while fighting. Paalam advances to the semifinals against Ryomei Tanaka of Japan. Paalam would defeat Tanaka by a unanimous decision (5–0) to advance to the gold medal match against British boxer Galal Yafai.

GALAL YAFAI
Galal Yafai (born 11 December 1992) is a 28-year-old and 5-foot-7 British boxer, born of Yemeni parents. While representing England in the light-flyweight division, he won a silver medal at the 2017 European Championships and gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and bronze while representing Great Britain in the flyweight division at the 2019 European Games. He also competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

At the 2016 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Samsun, Turkey, Yafai defeated Samuel Carmona Heredia of Spain by unanimous decision in his semifinal to secure his place in the 2016 Olympic. He won his round of 32 fight defeating Simplice Fotsala of Cameroon. He lost his Round of 16 fight to Joahnys Argilagos of Cuba.
In May 2019, Yafai was selected to compete at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus.He also competed at the 2019 World Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where he lost by unanimous decision to Billal Bennama in the quarter-finals.

He has qualified to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where he has advanced to the gold medal match in the flyweight division.

He is the younger brother of boxers Kal Yafai and Gamal Yafai.

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