Shiva Thapa’s (63.5kg) Asian Championships marketing campaign got here to a bittersweet finish after he was compelled to withdraw from the ultimate halfway resulting from an damage, bowing out with an unprecedented sixth medal, a silver, in Amman, Jordan on Saturday. The 28-year-old, who grew to become probably the most profitable male boxer within the event, sustained an damage in his proper knee within the opening seconds of the second spherical of the sunshine welterweight gold medal bout towards Abdullaev Ruslan of Uzbekistan, struggling a RSC (Referee stops the competition) loss. Thapa, seeded third, was trailing when the damage occurred. He had misplaced the fast-paced opening spherical 0-5.

In the opening three minutes, each the boxers had tried to say their authority, even resorting to physique blows with the Uzbek approaching prime.

In the second spherical, whereas attempting to make up floor, Thapa fell on the canvas after exchanging a number of punches. He managed to stand up with none support because the referee gave a depend however the Indian regarded in ache as play remained halted. Thapa then acquired medical consideration because the ringside physician examined his proper knee.

Eventually the bout was referred to as off as Thapa hobbled away. The seasoned boxer struggled to even rise up whereas the referee introduced the winner.

The last will depart a nasty style, in an in any other case, flawless marketing campaign by Thapa.

His haul now features a gold (2013), three silvers (2017, 2021 and 2022) and two bronze medals (2015 and 2019).

With the silver, Thapa has overtaken Kazakh legend Vassiliy Levit, an Olympic silver medallist and two-time world bronze medal winner, who was the one different male pugilist with 5 Asian Championship medals.

Six-time world champions M C Mary Kom (7) and L Sarita Devi (8) have extra Asian medals than Thapa, with the latter having the excellence of claiming six successive, 5 of them gold, on the peak of her prowess.

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