India’s marketing campaign on the first World Olympic Boxing Qualifier was off to a disappointing begin as World Championships bronze medallist Deepak Bhoria (51kg) went down combating to Azerbaijan’s Huseynov Nijat on the opening day in Busto Arsizio on Sunday. Bhoria, who pipped 2019 World Championships silver medallist Amit Panghal to make the Indian squad, misplaced by way of 2-3 break up verdict. The first two rounds noticed a decent contest as each the boxers went into attacking mode from the phrase go. The younger pugilist from Azerbaijan took full benefit of his tempo and swift actions to make life troublesome for Bhoria within the ring. Bhoria misplaced each the primary and second rounds with an equivalent 2-3 scoreline.

The Indian pugilist got here all weapons blazing within the closing three minutes and delivered some high quality blows to take the spherical 4-1 nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient.

Asian Games bronze medallist Narender ( 92kg) and Commonwealth Games 2022 bronze medallist Jaismine (60kg) shall be in motion afterward Sunday towards Germany’s Nelvie Tiafack and Japa”s Ayaka Taguchi respectively.

There are a complete of 49 quotas on provide, together with 28 for males and 21 for girls.

The Indian boxers have clinched 4 quotas for the Paris Olympics until now.

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