Recap: Olympic Boxing on Day One

The Olympic boxing tournament is underway featuring the first men's bouts without headgear since 1980 in Moscow.

Britain's Galal Yafai dominated Cameroon's Simplice Fotsala in a unanimous decision victory to open the action.

"It was good to go down in history as the first bout without headguards, but it was just another fight for me," Yafai said.

It's also the first time scoring will use the traditional 10-point system. There is a boxing event every day of the Olympics.

Olympic boxing fans still hooted for the ring card girls. But the women were dressed in conservative white shorts and T-shirts, not the scantily clad attire generally seen at major professional boxing events.

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