Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) suffered a shock loss by disqualification (DSQ) to Ireland’s O’Rourke Aoife within the opening spherical of the seventy fifth Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria on Monday. The referee disqualified Borgohain 1 minute 18 seconds into spherical three of the pre-quarterfinal bout after the reigning world champion acquired her third warning for extreme grappling. The 26-year-old Borgohain, who has already certified for the Paris Olympics, received the primary two rounds 3-2 however had a degree deducted in every of the rounds, which left her trailing with three minutes to go.

With Aoife using an aggressive strategy, Borgohain threw punches from afar however failed to attach them. She constantly resorted to clinching all through the bout resulting in her disqualification.

Two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen (50kg) and Sakshi Chaudhary (57kg) started their marketing campaign with contrasting wins.

Paris-qualified Nikhat eked out a slender 3-2 win over Mongolia’s Oyuntsetseg Yesugen. Both the boxers got here with an attacking intent as they delivered highly effective blows at each alternative.

The boxers have been at their attacking greatest and did not give any respiratory area to one another.

However, it was the reigning world champion Nikhat who ultimately triumphed. She will face Lkhadiri Wassila of France in her quarterfinal bout on Thursday.

Sakshi, alternatively, outclassed Selmouni Chahira of Algeria together with her swift moments and shock assaults.

She dominated the match all through to clinch a straightforward 5-0 unanimous choice win to enter the quarterfinals. She will face Mamajonova Khumorabonu of Uzbekistan within the quarterfinals on Thursday.

Asian Games bronze medallist Preeti Pawar (54kg) suffered a 2-3 loss to Fay Niamh of Ireland.

Both the pugilists had their moments within the first two rounds with Fay taking the lead early on. Preeti did make a outstanding comeback within the third spherical with all 5 judges tilting in her favour, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient as she bowed out of the match after a troublesome battle.

Manisha (60kg) and Arundhati Choudhary (66kg) will probably be in motion later Monday towards France’s Zidani Amina and Sonvico Emilie, respectively.

Late on Sunday, Jugnoo (86kg) secured a hard-fought 3-2 win over Kocharian Ashot of Ukraine within the spherical of 16 conflict. He will now face Djalolov Samandar of Uzbekistan within the quarter-finals on Thursday.

On Tuesday, three males boxers will kick-start their marketing campaign of their respective spherical of 16 matches. Sachin (57kg) will tackle Uzbekistan’s Fayzov Khudoynazar, Vanshaj (63.5kg) will face Iran’s Habibinezhad Ali and Sagar (92+kg) will sq. off towards Jazeviciius Jonas of Lithuania.