Chandigarh: The script in the BFI’s 2nd Junior National Boxing Championships, being held at the University Hall, was more or less the same as the remaining weight category bouts continuing on the second day here.
SSBC’s Vishwamitra, the silver medal winner at the Nations Cup held in Serbia, won his opening bout against Madan Pratap Anakapalli from Andhra with a 5:0 verdict to register his presence in 48 kg, while A Naoba Singh, teammate of Vishwamitra, a bronze medallist at the same event in Serbia, defeated Aditya Gaut from Maharashtra 3:2 in what was the best bout of the morning in the 52 kg weight class.
In middleweight (75 kg), Lakhmani from SSCB, a silver medal winner at the Nation’s Cup earlier this year, won his first bout against Abhimanyu Singh of Rajasthan when the referee stopped the contest in the second round.
As for the women’s bouts are concerned, there were as many as nine RSC verdicts with half a dozen clear decisions on points told the story of one-sided contests among the 32 bouts in categories between 48 kg and +80 kg.
UP’s Anchal Singh got a 4:1 verdict against Himachal’s Sujata Kumari after the latter managed to trade off some blows to her better opponent while Odisha’s Puja Nayak made amends for her teammates’ first-round losses by getting 4:1 decision in her favour in 70 kg against Manu Baggar of Uttar Pradesh.