Tokyo Olympian Ashish Chaudhary superior to the 80kg pre-quarterfinals with a break up determination win over Meysam Gheshlaghi of Iran on the Men’s World Boxing Championships in Tashkent on Tuesday. Ashish secured a hard-fought 4-1 victory towards the previous Asian Championships silver medalist. The 28-year-old from Himachal Pradesh displayed his attacking intent from the phrase go by touchdown highly effective jabs to maintain his opponent at bay within the first spherical.

Ashish, the 2019 Asian Championships silver medalist, then utilised his sensible motion and supreme technical capacity to edge previous the Iranian.

He will now face a troublesome problem from the two-time Olympic champion Arlen Lopez of Cuba within the spherical of 16.

Meanwhile, debutant Harsh Choudhary bowed out of the competitors after struggling a 0-5 unanimous determination loss towards Billy McAllister of Australia within the 86kg class.

On Wednesday, Nishant Dev (71kg) will tackle the 2021 World Championships bronze medalist Sarkhan Alliyev of Azerbaijan in his first match of the match which is witnessing the participation of 538 boxers, together with a number of Olympic medalists, from 107 nations.