TASHKENT: India’s Deepak Bhoria (51kg) and Nishant Dev (71kg) continued their scintillating forms at the ongoing IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships as they stormed into the quarter-finals of the tournament with dominating victories, here 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.
He will now play his next bout against Diushebaev Nurzhigit of Kyrgyzstan and will look to confirm a medal for India.
On the other hand, Nishant Dev registered a win by RSC in the first round against Nidal Foqahaa of Palestine.
Foqahaa used his height advantage to put Nishant Dev in the corner before the Indian pugilist used a combination of heavy punches on his opponent which forced the referee to stop the contest.
Nishant Dev will face Jorge Cuellar Of Cuba in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
However, Akash Sangwan (67 kg) and Sachin Siwach (54kg) bowed out of the tournament.
Akash went down 0-5 against Kazakhstan's Dulat Bekbauov.
Sachin also suffered a 0-5 defeat in his round of 16 bout. IANS
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