Asian Boxing Championships: Amit Panghal one win away from gold, Sakshi Choudhary loses final spot on bout review | Other Sports News

Dubai: Defending champion Amit Panghal (52kg) out-punched acquainted foe Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan to enter the finals of the Asian Boxing Championships in Dubai on Friday. The top-seeded Indian defeated Bibossinov 5-0.

The Kazakh is a world championship bronze-medallist and had misplaced to silver-winner Panghal within the semifinals of that occasion as nicely.

Panghal was in prime type as he took management together with his sharp counter-attacks towards the defensively weaker Bibossinov. 

The Indian performed the ready recreation to perfection because the third-seeded Bibossinov’s plan to dazzle him with early aggression fell flat because the bout progressed.

The world quantity one from Haryana turned the aggressor within the final spherical as Bibossinov ran out of steam.

On Thursday night time, 4 Indian girls boxers had superior to the finals.

Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg), Lalbuatsaihi (64kg), Pooja Rani (75kg) and Anupama (+81kg) received their bouts to make the summit conflict.

Of these, Pooja acquired a walkover after her opponent pulled out.

Heartbreak for Sakshi Choudhary 

It was heartbreak for two-time world youth champion Sakshi Choudhary (54kg) as she misplaced her final spot after her rival, top-seeded Kazakh Dina Zholaman, efficiently challenged the slender victory that she had clinched within the last-four stage.

Sakshi had prevailed 3-2 within the regulation bout however the resolution was challenged by the Kazakh workforce and finally overturned. 

“Kazakhstan’s Dina Zholaman defeated India’s Sakshi Choudhary at the women’s bantamweight (54kg),” the Asian Boxing Confederation introduced. 

Zholaman was declared winner within the official end result sheet that got here out on the finish of the day’s proceedings late on Thursday night time. 

“The Kazakh team sought a review of the third round, which it felt should have been scored in favour of their boxer. On review, the jury found their contention to be correct and overturned the original verdict,” a supply within the Indian contingent advised PTI. 

The bout review system was launched by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in 2019. 

The workforce supervisor or the top coach of the dropping boxer will get quarter-hour after the choice is introduced to submit their protest and full the paperwork for it within the subsequent half-hour.

Decisions with scores 5-0 or 4-1 aren’t reviewable underneath this method.

Each workforce is allowed as much as two failed opinions. 

“If the Technical Delegate determines, after consulting the Bout Review Jury, that the protest should be allowed to proceed, the bout will be reviewed by the Jury – the Observer, the Referee Evaluator and the Judge Evaluator,” the AIBA had mentioned.

In case of a protest claiming that an AIBA technical rule was violated by the referee, the aggrieved workforce has to specify the breach, the spherical by which it allegedly occurred, and the way it affected the final end result. 

The jury’s resolution have to be unanimous and can be final.