Young Indian boxer Nishant Dev produced a power-packed efficiency, recording a scintillating 5-0 victory over 2021 World Championships bronze medallist Sarkhan Aliyev of Azerbaijan to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the World Boxing Championships right here on Wednesday. The 22-year-old boxer from Karnal put up a world-class show of energy and supreme method, utilising his technique of attacking from distance and touchdown a swift mixture of punches to start out the bout on the entrance foot.
By judging his opponent’s assaults nicely and defending sternly, Nishant gave the Azerbaijani no likelihood to execute his assaults. The southpaw, who hardly put a foot unsuitable, proved to be too fast for Aliyev. Nishant, who had reached the quarter-finals within the final version as nicely, will now face Lee Sangmin of South Korea within the subsequent spherical.
Nishant poses after getting into the Pre-quarters in fashion __@AjaySingh_SG l @debojo_m#MWCHs#WorldChampionships#PunchMeinHaiDum#Boxing @nishantdevjr pic.twitter.com/k8NhlY2yhI— Boxing Federation (@BFI_official) May 3, 2023
On Thursday, 4 Indian pugilists will take to the ring for his or her respective match openers. The 2022 Thailand Open champion Govind Sahani (48kg) will sq. off towards Mehron Shafiev of Tajikistan, whereas the 2019 Asian silver medallist Deepak Kumar (51kg) will face Luis Delgado of Ecuador.
Record six-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg), who obtained a bye within the first spherical, will start his marketing campaign from the round-of-16 stage as he goals so as to add one other World Championships medal to his kitty after bronze within the 2015 version in Doha.
The bronze medallists of the 2022 Asian Championships, Narender Berwal (+92kg) and Muhammad Abroridinov of Tajikistan, who additionally obtained byes within the first spherical, will go head-to-head towards one another. The ongoing match is witnessing the participation of 538 boxers, together with a number of Olympic medallists, from 107 nations.
