The gold medal is anyone's at Superheavy.. It's open house.

This years Olympic super-heavyweight boxing tournament is by no means cut and dried, with four of the final 8 fighters capable on any given day of beating the rest..  Top of the standings is the tournaments favourite, Frenchman Tony Yoka, who has proven over the last 4 years, exactly why he is so highly seeded... Yoka has faced most of the guys in his bracket in previous tournaments, most notably GBs Joe Joyce, with both fighters sharing victories in their two meetings..  Yoka looked the most complete of this years competitors in his only bout so far, outboxing the huge Virgin Islander Laurent Clayton Jr..   High on anyone's list of possible gold medalists has to be the world number 1 ranked Ivan Dychko..  The 6 foot 9 Kazakh, overcame the rugged Magomed Medzhidov in his first bout, a fight unfortunately cut short on the advice of the ringside physicist following a thumb in the Azerbaijan fighters eye, Dychko had previously been knocked out by Medzhidov and was looking for revenge..  A highly touted medalist, Dychko will have to fight out of his skin to make the finals..  Dychko faces huge punching wildcard Efe Ajagba of Nigeria in tomorrow's quarters, a fight of huge importance..  Third on my list of possibles is the tough, hard punching Joe Joyce of Great Britain..  This is Joyce's first Olympics, but having faced most all of his fellow competitors, the huge Brit won't be phased by the occasion. In his only bout of the games Joyce showed immense power in stopping Cape Verdes Davilson Morais inside a round..  Joyce has beaten both Yoka and the Pero in WSB bouts, outpointing the Cuban in his own back yard in Havana..  Joe is the most proficient of the list, he lacks finesse, but makes up for it with determination, Joe has sparred consistently with IBF world heavyweight Champion going back as far as AJs 2012 success, the kind of valuable experience that could carry Joyce as an outsider, towards gold..  Joe faces the Uzbekistan representative in the quarters, Jalolov, a tall rangy boxer with little power, a foe that shouldn't pose too much of a threat to the Londoner..  
The wildcard goes to Nigerias Efe Ajagba, who's single appearance so far has produced the knockout of tournament, wiping out Trinidad and Tobagos Nigel Paul inside a round on Saturday..  Ajagba is tall, powerful, mobile and possesses the tools to trouble anyone in his Olympic path, Ajagba faces world number 1 Ivan Dychko in the quarters, but in all honestly has nothing to lose..  
Cuban Lenier Pero is still in contention, beating the Italian Vianello in his second round bout, to secure his quarter final spot against the Croatian Filip Hrgovic..  Pero is useful, but not the invincible force you'd usually expect of the Cuban squad..  Olympic Superheavyweight champions usually go on to professional success, a springboard to limitless financial gains, there is a lot more than medals at stake and success could be anyone's..