Indian boxers Nishant Dev (71kg) and Sanjeet (92kg) made the quarterfinals following spectacular victories however 4 others, together with Asian silver-medallist Deepak Bohria (51kg), bowed out of the AIBA Men’s World Championships after shedding their last-16 stage bouts right here on Monday.
Nishant defeated Mexico’s Marco Alvarez Verde 3-2 in a late evening bout on Sunday to arrange a conflict with Russia’s Vadim Musaev.
Sanjeet, a quarterfinalist from the earlier version and the reigning Asian champion, acquired the higher of Georgia’s Giorgi Tchigladze 4-1 to enter the final eight stage for a second successive time.
He will face Italy’s Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine.
However, Rohit Mor (57kg) went all the way down to Kazakhstan’s Serik Temirzhanov 1-4. Akash Sangwan (67kg) too misplaced 0-5 to Cuba’s former world youth champion Kevin Brown Bazain in a combat that left each the boxers with bloodied faces.
Also exiting the match was Sumit Kundu (75kg), who fought valiantly in opposition to one other Cuban in Yoenlis Hernandez however misplaced 0-5.
Deepak was crushed by Kazakhstan’s Saken Bibossinov, the reigning Olympic and world championship bronze-medallist. The Indian claimed the second spherical and was in with an opportunity to upstage Bibossinov however teh Kazakh raised his sport simply in time to nostril forward.
Mor gave a superb account of himself by preventing exhausting and taking his possibilities in opposition to the technically sound Kazakh, who was particularly terrific within the opening spherical along with his assaults.
Mor troubled him along with his personal model of aggressive ways, which included some good footwork however he struggled to attach.
Sangwan was equally gritty however lacked in footwork and was maybe a bit too labored up throughout the contest.
Brown, regardless of being caught off guard greater than as soon as by Sangwan’s persistent assaults, was the superior of the 2 boxers by way of making counter-attacks.
The Cuban additionally displayed a strikingly good defence and was a transparent winner.
Both the boxers ended up sustaining cuts near their proper eyes within the closing spherical.
Later, Sumit began effectively by pocketing the opening spherical in a cut up determination however Hernandez made an outstanding comeback along with his eye-catching uppercuts and physique photographs that the Indian discovered tough to deal with.
Later tonight, five-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will look to safe a quarterfinal berth. Thapa can be preventing France’s Lounes Hamraoui.
The gold winners on the showpiece will stroll away with a prize cash of USD 100,000.
The silver medallists are to be given USD 50,000, and each bronze-medallists can be awarded USD 25,000 every. The complete prize purse stands at a whopping USD 2.6 million.
India are being represented by its reigning nationwide champions throughout weight classes.
