Reigning World Champion Nikhat Zareen on Friday assured India a medal within the 50kg weight class after beating Jordan’s Hanan Nassar by KO in 2 minutes in a quarterfinal of the continued nineteenth Asian Games.
Reigning World Champion Nikhat Zareen on Friday assured India a medal within the 50kg weight class after beating Jordan’s Hanan Nassar by KO in 2 minutes in a quarterfinal of the continued nineteenth Asian Games.
With this victory, Nikhat additionally formally sealed her place in India’s Paris Olympics contingent. As for her Asian Games marketing campaign, she shall be up in opposition to Thailand’s Chuthamat Raksat within the semifinal. The Indian boxer wanted lower than two minutes to beat Jordan’s Nassar Hanan within the quarterfinals, as her cruel boxing precipitated the referee to finish the competition by way of RSC (referee stops depend).
Nikhat was aggressive from the beginning, launching a flurry of assaults on her opponent, inflicting the referee to award her a standing depend thrice. The World Champion was just too robust a problem for Nassar. The referee needed to cease the bout within the first spherical after Nikhat delivered a barrage of punches.
In different boxing outcomes on Friday, Parveen Hooda secured her spot within the final eight whereas Lakshya Chahar suffered a defeat 4:1 on factors in opposition to Kyrgyzstan’s Omurbek Bekzhigit Uulu within the males’s 80kg spherical of 16. In the earlier spherical, Nikhat had already established her authority over her South Korean opponent, defeating Chorong Bak 5-0 within the second spherical of the ladies’s occasion. (ANI)
