Kyrgyzstan’s Omar Livaza eliminated a strong Uzbek opponent in Dubai
Kyrgyzstan’s Asian U22 Champion Omar Livaza eliminated one of the Uzbek favourites on the fourth competition day at the IBA Men’s Elite World Boxing Championships in Dubai today.
Altogether 428 boxers are participating in the IBA Men’s Elite World Boxing Championships in Dubai for the 13 available gold medals.
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Cambodia, IBA-China, IBA-India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Palestine, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan are the 21 participating countries from the Asian continent.
Kazakhstan’s Asian Championships silver medallist Orazbek Assylkulov is already 27-year-old but this Dubai edition is his first World Championships. He started the first round well against Cape Verde’s Elisandro Sanches Da Silva and the experienced Kazakh was able to continue in the same strong level until the last gong. Assylkulov’s technical skills dominated their Round of 32 bout at the featherweight (57kg) and Kazakhstan is still perfect in Dubai.
Turkmenistan’s Asian Games bronze medallist Bayramdurdy Nurmuhammedov spent several weeks in Kazakhstan and in Uzbekistan to prepare well to the World Championships. The 23-year-old boxer is Turkmenistan’s No.1 but he had a very difficult first opponent, Albania’s Alban Beqiri who claimed a historic bronze medal in Belgrade four years ago. Nurmuhammedov had to still increase his tempo in the third round and his powerful punches delivered a stoppage success for him.
Iran’s Amir Moslem Maghsoudi joined the national team a few years ago and he moved up to the light middleweight (71kg) to be successful in Dubai. The tall Iranian had a hard battle against Mali’s Fousseyni Traore and he had to keep the full concentration until the last bell to keep the victory in this preliminary.
The Sri Lankans started well enough in the competition and some of their boxers managed victories including Yazmin Usaith, who eliminated already two opponents. Their light middleweight (71kg) boxer, Gedara Rupassara continued the strong performance of the Sri Lankans, he bowed out Germany’s Maksym Bunakov by bout review.
Tajikistan’s new light welterweight (63.5kg) member in the elite team, Ruslan Gafurov won his first Asian medal still back in 2019 when he was a 13-year-old schoolboy. The 19-year-old boxer won the Azimjon Toshev Memorial Tournament this summer and he had a tough but successful mission against Moldova’s Vladislav Vaskovskyi.
Kyrgyzstan’s Omar Livaza is the defending ASBC Asian U22 Champion at the light welterweight (63.5kg) and he developed in terms of strength this year. The 21-year-old Kyrgyz was expecting a hard bout against Uzbekistan’s newcomer Sayat Ilyasov but his strategy worked well from the first round. The technician Kyrgyz, who is a member of the Dungan ethnic minority, exceeded his previous level of boxing and he eliminated an Uzbek boxer in Dubai as first.
India’s former Youth World Champion Sachin returned to the national team after a break and he opened his campaign with a great success over a dangerous opponent, Azerbaijan’s Umid Rustamov. Uzbekistan’s Khujanazar Nortojiyev was the next winner at the featherweight (57kg), he outpointed Sri Lanka’s Podi Arachchige Rukmal Prasanna, but Tajikistan’s Khusravkhon Rakhimov and Mongolia’s Enkh-Amar Kharkhuu also shined on Day4.
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