India’s Deepak Bhoria shocked Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist and 2021 World Champion Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan 5-2 (after bout evaluation) in the Round of 32 bout in the 51kg weight class in the IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Sunday.
Compatriot Hussamuddin (57kg) additionally registered a victory to advance to the quarterfinals.
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Deepak got here up with a surprising show in opposition to the top-seeded Bibossinov, the favorite for a medal in this weight class. It was a tricky combat and Deepak matched the Kazakhstan boxer. At the top of three rounds, a countback evaluation was carried out in which the Indian boxer emerged on the highest and superior.
Deepak began the bout slowly and took a while to get into the rhythm however Bibossinov used it to his benefit and landed some punches. The Indian boxer ended the primary spherical strongly and hit his opponent with a flurry of punches however misplaced by 2-3.
After the second spherical, Deepak was trailing earlier than mounting an incredible comeback in the ultimate spherical. He picked up the tempo and moved round swiftly all through the bout whereas hitting his opponent with some arduous blows. Deepak evaded the Kazakh boxer’s punches constantly and impressed the judges to win by 5-2 after the choice went to bout evaluation.
Deepak will face Zhang Jiamao of China in his subsequent bout and can look to register one other massive win in the match.
“My goal was to play with endurance for the reason that begin of the bout and collect as many factors as I can. The first two rounds had been powerful however I used to be centered on not dropping my endurance and ready for the correct second to assault,” Deepak was quoted as saying by the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) in a release on Sunday.
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. I am focused on winning my next bout now,” Deepak stated after the victory.
On the opposite hand, Hussamuddin confronted Russia’s Savvin Eduard in the pre-quarters. The Indian pugilist dominated the bout from the beginning and by no means gave any probability of a comeback to his opponent.
Hussamuddin was faster than his Russian opponent in the second spherical as effectively. In the third spherical, he stored on counter-punching neatly to register a 5-0 win. He will go up in opposition to second seed Umid Rustamov (Azerbaijan) in the quarterfinals of the match.
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Boxers Sumit (75kg) and Narender (92+kg) will probably be in motion in a while Sunday evening. Sumit will begin his marketing campaign in the spherical of 32 bout in opposition to Russia’s Pavel Sosulin whereas Narender will sq. off in opposition to Arzola Lopez of Cuba in the last-16 stage.
The ongoing match is witnessing the participation of 538 boxers, together with a number of Olympic medallists, from 107 international locations.
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