Men’s World Boxing C’ships: Deepak Bhoria, Nishant Dev advance with dominating wins

Sachin Siwach (54kg) and Akash Sangwan (67kg) will be in action later today.

May 10, 2023 - 11:30
Men’s World Boxing C’ships: Deepak Bhoria, Nishant Dev advance with dominating wins

Deepak Bhoria (51kg) and Nishant Dev (71kg) continued their scintillating forms at the ongoing IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as they stormed into the quarter-finals of the tournament with dominating victories on Tuesday.

Playing against Jiamao Zhang of China in the pre-quarterfinal, Deepak controlled the bout right from the start and ended up winning it by a 5-0 unanimous decision.

Deepak had a measure of his opponent and called the shots in the first round with his Swift movement and accurate punches.

He went into defensive mode at the start of the second round and used his counter-attacking game to strike some heavy left hooks on his opponent.

In the third round, Deepak was on his toes as Zhang tried to be more aggressive with a combination of punches. However, the Indian pugilist was too quick for his rival and comfortably won the bout.

“My strategy was to use my strongest weapon in the match which is my left hook and everything went according to our plan in the match. I tried to get the momentum early in the bout and lure my opponent before striking some accurate punches. My focus is on the next bout now and I will give my 100...

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