But Ghana secured the deserved three points and a place in the knock-out round when Yartey scored the winner.
BBC: Ghana will play Brazil in the second round on Wednesday
But he was worn down by the formidable Mexican, and he never recovered consciousness after a horrendous 12th-round knock-out.
In both contests, the Newbridge fighter showed the spirit of a true champion to rally from first-round knock-downs to win.
Khan took Limond's Commonwealth lightweight title on Saturday, but he had to pick himself up after a sixth-round knock-down to do so.
Calzaghe impressed on his American debut as he came back from a first round knock-down to beat Bernard Hopkins in Las Vegas in April.
The Welshman stopped heavyweight Matthew Ellis in two rounds at London's ExCeL Arena last December, before suffering a shock ninth-round knock-out to Ola Afolabi in March, his third defeat in 32 fights.
So go ahead and pick 14th seeded Boise State to knock off Louisville in the first round of the East regional, but don't expect them to keep marching onward.
The tournament then enters the knock-out phase with the fourth round of matches on Wednesday, 1 September, before finals day on Sunday, 5 September.
The superstar was eliminated by Ottawa in his first postseason in 2007 and helped Pittsburgh knock the Senators out of the first round the next year and 2010.
Football is not basketball, and on no day will the winner of the MAC or Sun Belt conference knock off Auburn or Ohio State in a first-round game.
If they progress to the knock-out stages, Spain will play a second-round match against one of Brazil, Portugal, Ivory Coast or North Korea on the 28 or 29 June.
The tournament format sees the eight teams split into two groups of four for a round-robin stage, before the top two teams from each group progress to knock-out semi-finals and then the final on June 28.
France flopped in 2002, losing to Senegal and crashing out in the first round, while Tunisia did well to qualify in 2006, but also failed to progress to the knock-out stages.
Maccarinelli's third professional knock-out leaves his boxing career hanging in the balance after being beaten by an explosive shot in the ninth round.
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