Mohammad Hussamuddin and Shiva Thapa started Indian marketing campaign on a successful word at the 2021 ASBC Asian Boxing Championships as the duo registered victories on opening day in Dubai on Monday. The Commonwealth Games bronze medallist made a cautious begin towards the Kazakhstan boxer Makhmud Sabyrkhan. However, with a swift motion and counter attacking show the Indian held an edge over his opponent and accomplished a 5-0 victory to progress into the quarter-finals at the Championship which is collectively hosted by the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) and UAE Boxing Federation.. Hussamuddin could have a sturdy problem within the last-8 match from the top-seed and reigning world champion Mirazizbek Mirzahalilov of Uzbekistan on Tuesday.
The 2013 Asian champion Thapa additionally made into the quarter-finals after he pulled off a high quality present and outpunched Kyrgyzstan’s Dmitrii Puchinn 5-0 within the 64kg opening spherical bout. Shiva will face Nader Odah of Kuwait within the quarter-finals on Day 2.
Later tonight, one other Indian Sumit Sangwan (81kg) will play his opening spherical match.
Alongside Hussamuddin and Thapa, the World Championships bronze medallist Simranjit Kaur and three different Indian pugilists will even look to substantiate medals for the nation as they may combat within the quarter-finals on second day on Tuesday.
Sakshi (54kg), Jasmine (57kg) and Sanjeet (91) are the opposite Indians who will likely be in motion within the last-8 stage of their respective classes at the celebrated occasion.
The Olympic-bound boxer Simranjit will sq. up towards Uzbekistan’s Raykhona Kodirova within the girls’s 60kg quarter-final bout. Two-time youth world champion Sakshi will tackle Ruhafzo Haqazarova of Tajikistan. In the ladies’s featherweight class Jasmine, who lately had a wonderful maiden worldwide outing at the Boxam Tournament the place she clinched the silver medal, will likely be up towards Mongolian boxer Oyuntsetseg Yesugen.
In the boys’s part, Sanjeet, who acquired a bye within the first spherical, will face a problem from Jakhon Qurbonov of Tajikistan.
The on-going Championships, which marks a return of worldwide boxing in Asia publish Covid-19 pandemic, has been witnessing the presence of 150 pugilists from 17 counties together with sturdy boxing nations such as India, Uzbekistan, Philippines and Kazakhstan. India’s best-ever present at the Asian Championship got here within the final version in 2019 in Bangkok the place they secured an unprecedented 13 medals together with two gold.
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