Roscoe Hill, will return to Spring, Texas with the silver medalist. Bringing back the silver medal in the 2021 AIBA World Championships in the Flyweight (51kg) division, to the Lone Star State. The Houston-area native has much to feel good about. He rose from relative obscurity, at least on the international scale, to stardom putting on a boxing clinic and catching the attention of the international boxing community. Showing off a boxing IQ allows him to control the distance and pace of the fight in addition to allusive defensive skills that made him nearly impossible to hit and the ability to fight at all three distances.
Hill, comes up just short in his bid for the Gold at The 2021 championships losing a decision to Kazakh fighter Saken Bibossinov. After a largely uneventful first round in which two natural counter-punchers felt each other out and exchanged jabs in what appeared to everyone as a fairly even round ended in a 5-0 round for the Kazakh fighter and inexplicably the German judge scored the even and largely uneventful round 10-8 for Bibossinov, an absolutely mind-boggling score. The second appeared to go much better for the Texan who knowing he had dropped the first round picked up the pace and started attacking landing with just not the jab but scoring with the straight right hand as well. As the bell rang it appeared that Hill had evened up the bout. However, the judges saw it very differently than the spectators. Again scoring 5-0 for the Kazakh fighter. That put Hill, who seemingly should have been no worse than all square after two, behind two points on four of the cards and somehow three points down on the fifth. The writing was on the wall and Hill was at the point of no return. Having to change the game plan and fight out of his preferred style he dropped the third as well. Settling for a well-earned Silver medal.
Despite settling for the Silver Hill was one of the surprising stars of the tournament that took place in Belgrade. Serbia. Winning his first four fights with his dazzling boxing skills. He outpointed Mario Lavegar of the Dominican Republic in the opening round. Next, he outclassed Artur Hovhannisyan of Armenia. Then he started upsetting some of the favorites in the tournament in the round of eight he showed the Italians not to mess with Texas when he gave a one-sided beat down to Italian favorite Federico Serra and then pulled another major upset but ending the run of Russian stand out Akhtem Zakirov who was putting together a spectacular run himself, before running into Hill.
