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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