Hitesh stuns Okazawa, leads four other Indians into the last four

Hitesh Gulia managed a 3-2 upset triumph implicit Olympian and World championships metallic medallist Sewon Okazawa of Japan successful a 70kg quarterfinal bout arsenic India continued its domination connected the 2nd time of the World Boxing Cup Finals astatine the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Indoor Stadium present connected Monday.

Jadumani Singh (50kg), Pawan Bartwal (55kg), Sumit Kundu (75kg) and Naveen Kumar (90kg) besides won their respective last-eight bouts to scope the semifinals and guarantee medals.

With some boxers adopting a cautious approach, Hitesh was fortunate to person 3 judges successful the archetypal 2 rounds contempt his constricted shots.

A stylish southpaw who displayed his gamesmanship and connected immoderate bully punches to instrumentality the 3rd circular 3-2, Okazawa mislaid successful the wide scoring.

A Mike Tyson fan, Bartwal staved disconnected a beardown situation from Kazakh boxer Altynbek Nursultan, the Brazil limb World Cup champion, to grounds a 5-0 triumph and unafraid his maiden planetary medal.

Bartwal, who had impressed connected his World championships debut successful Liverpool, overcame his archetypal tentativeness to trust connected his close punching arsenic helium took the archetypal 2 rounds with an identical 4-1 verdict earlier securing the 3rd convincingly.

Important results: Quarterfinals: Men: 50kg: Izaz Omer (Aus) bt Slominski Bogdan (Pol) 4-1, Jadumani Singh bt Nurzat Ongarov (Kaz) 5-0; 55kg: Ellis Trobridge (Eng) bt Yelmir Nabiiev (Ukr) 3-2, Pawan Bartwal bt Altynbek Nursultan (Kaz) 5-0; 60kg: Seiitbek Munarbek Ullu (Kgz) bt Brach Pawel (Pol) 5-0; 70kg: Hitesh Gulia bt Sewon Okazawa (Jpn) 3-2, Yurii Zakharieiev (Ukr) bt Kan Chia Wei (Tpe) 3-2, Nurbek Mursal (Kaz) bt Ikhriiar Nishonov (Kgz) 3-2; 75kg: Javokhir Abdurakhimov (Uzb) bt Aman Konsbekov (Kaz) 4-1, Sumit Kundu bt Kim Hyeonate (Kor) 5-0; 90kg: Tutak Adam Jakub (Pol) bt Abduljabbar Ammar (Ger) 4-0, Nusratbek Tokhirov (Uzb) bt Bogdan Tolmachov (Ukr) 4-1, Naveen Kumar bt Bekzat Tangatar (Kaz) 5-0.