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 Tokyo games: Olympics Debutant Satish Kumar Cruises Into Boxing Quarterfinal

India's first remarkable heavyweight (+91kg) boxer to compete within the Olympics, Satish Kumar, eased into the quarterfinals of his debut games, defeating Jamaica's Ricardo Brown in his beginning bout, on Thursday. Inside the conflict of the debutants, the 32-12 months-antique Satish prevailed four-1, a comfy win for him in spite of the break up verdict. The two-time Asian Championships bronze-winner Indian, who has been a more than one-time country wide champion, became helped by using Brown's poor footwork for the duration of the bout even though he did turn out to be maintaining  cuts -- one on his forehead and the other on his chin.

"He got cuts due to 3 head butts during the bout. But it turned into a very measured performance by Satish, he could have been in trouble had Brown connected because he changed into big and effective," Indian boxing's high overall performance Director Santiago Nieva instructed PTI.

Next up for Satish will face Uzbekistan's Bakhodir Jalolov, the reigning global and Asian champion. Jalolov out-punched Azerbaijan's Mahammad Abdullayev 5-0 in his final-16 bout.

"He isn't always unbeatable. Even though Satish has never gained towards him, the ultimate time they fought in the India Open, it become cut up verdict. He ran him near," Nieva stated.

Satish, also a 2018 Commonwealth video games silver-medallist, dominated along with his proper hand and allowed Brown to time and again make the error of lunging in with very little stability. Brown regarded to be seeking out that one massive punch that might unsettle the Indian but failed miserably, as a result of his incapacity to move speedy sufficient after launching into Satish.

The Indian, in assessment, become light on his toes and thereby sharper in responding to Brown's attacks.

"The concept changed into to score and pull again due to the fact Brown's energy could have been risky. Satish did properly to tire him out by way of moving around the ring and it genuinely helped that our boy had lighter feet," Nieva stated.

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The past due bloomer from Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr is an military guy, who used to play kabaddi, and changed into introduced to the sport because of his correct physique by way of the navy coaches. The 31-year-old Brown, who is the first boxer from his us of a to qualify for the video games because 1996, became Jamaica's flag-bearer at the hole rite.

He's the co-founder of 'Sensi Juice', an organic juice business enterprise based in Canada. The juices which can be produced by way of his enterprise are infused with cannabis. Brown additionally labored as a chef in Jamaica until 2014.