Cincinnati native Duke Ragan, a Western Hills High School graduate, advanced to the quarterfinals in boxing's men's featherweight division at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a win by unanimous decision Wednesday morning against Kazakhstan's Serik Temirzhanov.
Last week, Ragan won his and Team USA's first boxing bout of the Tokyo Games, earning a split decision victory against France's Samuel Kistohurry to reach the round of 16.
Ragan is scheduled to fight again Saturday against Ireland's Kurt Walker, who upset the No. 1 seed, Uzbekistan's Mirazizbek Murzakhalilov, just before Ragan's victory.
Ragan, who won silver at the 2017 World Championships and another silver at the 2019 Pan American Games, announced last month that he would represent Team USA in Japan.
Ragan has a 4-0 record as a professional. Rule changes several years ago made American pros eligible for the Olympics.
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Ragan became the first outright professional boxer to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics - according to Olympic historians - per nbcsports.com. He and two others who turned professional during the pandemic were added to the U.S. team via international allocations.
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