Manipur's Bidyapati stuns Amisha in second round; Sanjeet emerges strong in his class
Services Victor and Haryana's Ankit impressive winners
Source: IT News
Chandigarh, December 15 2018:
Manipur's N.Bidyapati
delivered a big blow to the
aspirations of
Amisha
Kumar Bharti of
Assam as
the Silesian Cup silver
medal winner bowed out in
the second round of the
BFI's 2nd Junior National
Boxing Championships,
being held at the University
Hall here yesterday.
In the 50kg bout of the day, the
Assam pugilist began
as a favourite in the
afternoon against lesser-known Manipuri only to
fade away as Bidyapati
won 4:1 in what was a major
upset so far.
The Manipuri boxer, with
no baggage, was all over her
Assamese opponent
and landing her
combination punches
impressed one and all
which culminated in her
winning the bout on spit
decisions, despite
Amisha
who had proved her really
well at the Poland event to
win a silver medal coming
strong in the last two
rounds.
However, in the
end, it was too little for the
Assamese as Bidyapti
emerged winners with
judges' verdicts favouring
her.
Later in the afternoon,
Aashreya Naik proved her
superiority over Punjab's
Jashanpreet Kaur , beating
her 5:0 in the 60 kg class.
The Goan boxer with good
international exposure
under her belt�she had
won a silver medal at the
Selesian Cup in Poland-it became easy against he Punjab rival.
But for this remarkable
bout in women's boxing,
the other results went
along the expected lines.
Services Sanjeet, who
celebrated his nomination as Asia's best boxer in the
Asian Boxing
Confederation polling
yesterday, fought as
fiercely as he is known to
against Manish Rathore of
Uttar Pradesh in the 46 kg
class before forcing the
referee stop the contest for
the RSC-3 verdict.
In fact, both the UP pugilist
and the Services boxers
began well and continued
even as the former was at
the receiving end from the
beginning.
Yet, he was able
to sustain for the first two
rounds before the referee's
intervention in the third
round.
His teammate, S. Victor
Singh was equally severe
against his Delhi rival, Sumit
Chaudhary, landing some clean punches to impress
the judges in the 50kg
second-round bout.
Indeed, the Delhi boxer
managed to ward off his
opponent by cleverly
ducking from harm's way
but traded very few
punches to make any
impression.
So it was not surprising
that
Victor, the bronze
medal winner from the
Nations Cup held in Serbia
early this year
, winning the
bout on points (5:0) to keep
chances alive in the
nationals.
Not to be left behind,
Ankit Narwal from Haryana
defeated Kanish Dagar,
also from Delhi, 5:0 in the
60 kg category.
The Junior
Asian bronze medal winner
from Haryana, biding time,
upped the ante towards
the end of the first round
and continued with some
fine lefts and landed a few
straights which fetched
him full points from the
five judges.
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