Vijender Singh vs Zulpikar bout in 1st week of August
NEWDELHI: World Boxing Organisation (WBO) has sanctioned WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title and WBO Oriental Super Middleweight title between Vijender Singh and Chinese Zulpikar Maimaitiali in the first week of August in Mumbai.
Vijender is current WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight champion, while Zulpikar is WBO Oriental Super Middleweight champion.
Neerav Tomar, promoter IOS Boxing Promotions said:”We are happy to know on WBO’s decision sanctioning Asia’s biggest battle between Vijender Singh and Zulpikar Maimaithiali. The sanction is in place and we can now move forward with Zulpikar’s team SECA to finalise terms and locking the date.”
DEVENDRO IN SEMIS
Commonwealth Games silverwinner L Devendro Singh (52kg) assured himself of his first international medal of the year by advancing to the semifinals of the Ulaanbaatar Cup boxing tournament in Mongolia.
Devendro, who jumped to the flyweight category late last year, defeated Russia’s Dimitrii Yusupov to make the last-four stage.
INDIA BEAT EGYPT
KHANTY MANSIYSK (RUSSIA): The Indian men and women team scored expected victories against lowest ranked Egypt in the World teams’ chess championship here.
The Indian men surprisingly dropped 1.5 points despite being overwhelming rating favourites on all four boards but in the end the third victory on the trot was sweet taking them on to six points out of a possible nine.