LONDON (Reuters) - Jordanian royalty were ringside in London on Saturday to watch the country's first Olympic boxer in action, dreaming of a first Olympic medal that Prince Feisal Al Hussein believes would transform sport in the Arab state.
Up against Cuban world light-heavyweight amateur champion Julio la Cruz Peraza, Jordan's lone fighter from the Palestinian refugee camp of Baqa'a near the capital of Amman was unlikely to make that dream come true and so it proved in a 25-8 loss.
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