Nishant, who was once offered with a difficult problem first of all, outpunched 2021 World Championships bronze medalist Sarkhan Aliyev of Azerbaijan within the 71kg class.
Nishant, who publish a world-class show of power and ultimate strategy to safe a 5-0 victory, applied his technique of attacking from distance and touchdown a swift mixture of punches to begin the bout at the entrance foot.
The 22-year-old boxer from Karnal judged his opponent’s assaults neatly and defended sternly as he gave the Azerbaijani boxer no likelihood to execute his assaults. The southpaw, who hardly ever put a foot mistaken all through the bout, proved to be too fast for Aliyev.
Nishant will now face Lee Sangmin of South Korea within the subsequent spherical. Having reached the quarter-finals of the contest within the final version as neatly, the Indian will probably be aiming to head the entire manner this time spherical.
On Thursday, 4 Indian pugilists will take to the hoop for his or her respective match openers. The 2022 Thailand Open champion Govind Sahani (48kg) will sq. off in opposition to Mehron Shafiev of Tajikistan whilst within the 2019 Asian silver medallist. Deepak Kumar (51kg) will face Luis Delgado of Ecuador.
Record six-time Asian medalist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg), who won a bye within the first spherical, will start his marketing campaign from the Round of 16 level as he targets so as to add every other World Championships medal to his kitty after bronze within the 2015 version in Doha.
The bronze medalists of the 2022 Asian Championships, Narendra Berwal (+92kg) and Muhammad Abroridinov of Tajikistan, who additionally were given byes within the first spherical, will pass head-to-head in opposition to every different.
The match is witnessing the participation of 538 boxers, together with a number of Olympic medalists, from 107 nations.