Women's World Boxing Championships: Lovlina Borgohain converts her Bronze medal collection with a Gold in the Women's World Boxing Championships. She defeated Australia’s Caitlin Parker in the final bout.
Salman Khan reacted to 25-year-old Nikhat Zareen who clinched the gold medal at the 12th edition of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championship. Nikhat who claims to be a huge fan of Bollywood superstar denied addressing him as 'bhai'. Salman on Friday night took to Twitter and made a special request to her. Check it out here.
The fresh date for the event, which was being promoted as the country's first Professional USA boxing event sanctioned by Indian Boxing Council (IBC), will be announced soon.
In a statement on Monday night, AIBA handed over the championship, originally allotted to India in 2017, to Serbian capital Belgrade.
AIBA was forced to terminate the agreement signed in 2017, "after New Delhi didn't fulfill its obligations to pay host fee as mentioned in the Host City Agreement terms."
Jamuna Boro lost her semifinal match against Huang Hsiao-Wen of Chinese Taipei and will settle for a bronze medal.
In the semifinals on Saturday, Mary Kom would be up against European Championship and European Games gold-medallist Busenaz Cakiroglu of Turkey who has been seeded second in the draw.
Jamuna Boro will next face Algerian fifth seed and defending champion Ouidad Sfouh in the pre-quarterfinals in what will be a tricky bout for her.
Mary Kom will be going for a record-extending seventh gold medal at the upcoming women's World Boxing Championship beginning October 3 in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Panghal (52kg) became the first Indian male boxer to claim a silver medal at the World Championships, while Kaushik (63kg) returned with a bronze at the event which concluded in Ekaterinburg, Russia on Saturday.
With Panghal winning silver and Manish Kaushik winning bronze on Friday in the lightweight division, this has been India's best performance at the men's boxing World Championships thus far.
The pint-sized dynamo from Rohtak became the first Indian male boxer to claim a silver medal at the World Championships, which concluded in Ekaterinburg, Russia on Saturday.
Amit Panghal lost to reigning Olympic champion Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan in the 52kg category final to settle for silver.
Manish Kaushik, who won the bronze medal in his debut appearance at the World Boxing Championship, said that he was sure of a podium finish in Russia.
Manish Kaushik ended his first World Boxing Championship with a bronze medal, as he was defeated by reigning gold medallist Andy Cruz of Cuba.
Amit Panghal will take on Kazakhstan's Saken Bibossinov while Manish Kaushik will take on Cuban top seed Andy Gomez Cruz.
Panghal and Kaushik have entered the semis, making it the first time when India have more than one boxer left in fray for the medal rounds of the boxing world championships.
The second-seeded 23-year-old, who is also an Asian Games gold-medallist, thrashed his rival 5-0 to move into the pre-quarterfinals of the world showpiece. The Indian had been given a first-round bye.
Brijesh Yadav didn't just defeat Goinski 5-0 but also left him with a wound on his head in the first and only bout of the day for India.
Zareen in a letter to Boxing Federation of India, alleged that she was "stopped from competing" in a scheduled trial bout on Tuesday against Vanlal Duati by the chairman of selectors.
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