Asian Elite Boxing Championships | Kapil and Sparsh bow out of tournament
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Indian boxers Kapil Pokhariya and Sparsh Kumar bow out of Asian Elite Boxing Championships after losing their respective round of 16 bouts. Kapil was up against Iran’s Pouria Amiri, started the bout in an attacking fashion and dominated his opponent to comfortably win the first round.
His Iranian opponent showed his experience and came back strongly in the second round with a flurry of relentless punches. Kapil tried to counter-attack but conceded a lot of punches in the process. Pouria continued to control the bout against a tired Kapil and secured a comfortable 5-0 win.
Late on Wednesday night, Sparsh (51kg) went down fighting and lost the bout 1-4 against the Olympic bronze medallist and reigning World Champion Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan.
Later in the day, Savita (50kg) will be in action against the Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist  Tsukimi Namiki of Japan in the pre-quarterfinal bout. Five Indian men boxers including 5-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will be in action on Friday. The other 4 boxers who will take the ring are Ananta Chopade (54kg), Etash Khan (60kg), Amit Kumar (67kg) and Sachin (71kg). All of them will be playing in the pre-quarterfinal bouts.
The competition is witnessing the participation of 267 boxers from 27 top boxing nations.
