Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Boxing News

At aiba 2019 World Boxing Championship, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Men's Bantamweight (52-57kg)
[QF] (2) Amit Panghal (IND) bt Carlo Paalam (PHI) 4-1(29-28, 29-28, 29-28, 29-28, 28-29)

[SF] (2) Amit Panghal (IND) vs Saken Bibossinov (KAZ)

Men's Bantamweight (52-57kg)
[QF] Kavinder Singh Bist (IND) l (4) Peter McGrail (ENG) 0-5 (28-29, 28-29, 27-30, 28-29, 27-30)

Men's Lightweight (57-63kg)
[QF] Manish Kaushik (IND) bt Wanderson de Oliveira (BRA) 5-0 (30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 29-28, 30-27)

[SF] Manish Kaushik (IND) vs (1) Andy Gomez Cruz (CUB)

Men's Heavyweight (81-91kg)
[QF] Sanjeet Kumar (IND) l (7) Julio Cesa Castillo Torres (ECU) 1-4 (27-30, 28-29, 29-28, 28-29, 28-29)

The first time we have won 2 medals at World Boxing Championship ... Before this, our all 4 bronze medals were in a different World Championship.

Amit started slow and was trailing after the first round ... But he recovered and become the more aggressive one in the next two rounds ... He defeated Carlo Paalam 4-1 ... In the semis, he has match against Kazakhstan’s Saken Bibossinov, who stunned Armenia’s European gold-medallist and sixth seed Artur Hovhannisyan.
Manish Kaushik continues with his impressive performance ... He gurantees a medal in his debut World championship ... Manish took full advantage of poor defense from his Brazilian opponent to win it in dominating fashion ... Next up for Manish is Cuban top seed, Andy Gomez Cruz ... Cruz was the light welterweight (64kg) category gold-medallist in the 2017 edition.
Kavinder Singh Bisht lost to 4th seed, Peter McGrail in the quarters 5-0 in a unanimous verdict to bow out of the championship.
Sanjeet tried hard in the final round but Torres was more aggressive overall and took his chances well. Sanjeet goes down fighting 1-4.

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