Boxer Deepak Bhoria stuns Olympic medallist to storm into World Championships pre-quarterfinals

Fast-rising Indian boxer Deepak Bhoria long-established an outstanding comeback to stun Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan and advance to the 51kg pre-quarterfinals of the World Championships proper right here on Sunday.

Trailing by a break up verdict inside the opening two rounds, Deepak, who was chosen ahead of World Championship silver medallist Amit Panghal, put up a stellar present inside the last three minutes to emerge winner after a bout evaluation.

The Indian lastly obtained 5-2 in opposition to the 2021 World Champion Bibossinov to achieve the pre-quarterfinals.

Two-time Commonwealth medallist Mohammed Hussamuddin (57kg) moreover registered a facile 5-0 victory over Russia’s Eduard Savvin to advance to the quarterfinals.

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However, it was the tip of the road from Sumit Kundu (75kg) and Narender Berwal (92+kg).

Deepak started the bout slowly and took some time to get into the rhythm nonetheless Bibossinov used it to his profit and landed some punches on his opponent.

The Indian boxer ended the first spherical strongly and hit his opponent with a flurry of punches nonetheless misplaced by 2-3.

After shedding the second spherical, Deepak picked up the tempo and moved spherical swiftly inside the third spherical, whereas hitting his opponent with some onerous blows. He evaded the Kazakh boxer’s punches continuously and impressed the judges to win the bout.

Deepak will face Zhang Jiamao of China in his subsequent bout and might look to register one different giant win inside the occasion.

“My target was to play with patience since the start of the bout and gather as many points as I can. The first two rounds were tough but I was focused on not losing my patience and waiting for the right moment to attack,” Deepak acknowledged after a memorable win.

“Coaches had told me to lure my opponent with the right punch before using my left hook to good effect. It worked as I connect a lot of left hooks to get points. Every bout is important for me and I play every match like it’s a final match for me,” he added.

On the alternative hand, Hussamuddin dominated his bout from the start and not at all gave his opponent a chance of a comeback.

Hussamuddin was quicker than his Russian opponent inside the second spherical as properly. In the third spherical, he saved on counter-punching nicely to register a unanimous dedication win.

He will go up in opposition to Bulgaria’s Javier Diaz Ibanez inside the quarterfinals.

In the evening session, Sumit confronted Russia’s Pavel Sosulin in his first bout and made a vivid start. He used his extremely efficient punches to good affect and took the first spherical by 3-2 sooner than profitable the second spherical by the equivalent scoreline.

However, he wasn’t able to protect the momentum inside the final spherical and misplaced to Sosulin in a 1-3 break up verdict.

On the alternative hand, Narender struggled to go looking out his ft correct from the first spherical in opposition to Fernando Arzola of Cuba.

He tried to land some heavy blows on his opponent nonetheless Arzola proved to be too quick for him in all three rounds of the match as a result of the Indian pugilist went down by 0-5 unanimous dedication.

Three Indian pugilists — Govind (48kg), Sachin (54kg) and Naveen (92kg) is likely to be in movement on Monday.

Govind will deal with prime seed and 2021 World Championships bronze medallist Sakhil Alakhverdovi inside the pre-quarterfinals whereas Sachin will begin his advertising marketing campaign inside the spherical of 32 in opposition to Serghei Novac of Modova.

Naveen will sq. off in opposition to 2021 World Championships bronze medallist Enmanuel Reyes of Spain inside the last-16 stage.