India's first first rate heavyweight (+91kg) boxer to compete in the Olympics, Satish Kumar, eased into the quarterfinals of his debut Games, defeating Jamaica's Ricardo Brown in his establishing bout right here on Thursday.
In the war of the debutants, the 32-12 months-vintage Satish prevailed 4-1, a secure win for him despite the break up verdict.
The two-time Asian Championships bronze-winner Indian, who has been a a couple of-time country wide champion, turned into helped through Brown's terrible footwork in the course of the bout although he did turn out to be maintaining cuts -- one on his brow and the other on his chin.
"He got cuts due to 3 head butts in the course of the bout. But it became a totally measured performance by way of Satish, he could have been in hassle had Brown related because he became large and effective," Indian boxing's High Performance Director Santiago Nieva instructed PTI.
Next up for Satish is Uzebkistan's Bakhodir Jalolov, the reigning world and Asian champion. Jalolov out-punched Azerbaijan's Mahammad Abdullayev 5-zero in his ultimate-16 bout.
"He isn't always unbeatable. Although Satish has by no means won towards him but the final time they fought in the India Open, it changed into split verdict. He ran him near," Nieva said.
Satish, also a 2018 Commonwealth Games silver-medallist, dominated together with his proper hand and allowed Brown to time and again make the mistake of lunging in with little or no stability.
Brown regarded to be looking for that one large punch that might unsettle the Indian however failed miserably, thanks to his inability to move quickly enough after launching into Satish.
The Indian, in evaluation, was light on his ft and thereby sharper in responding to Brown's attacks.
"The concept turned into to score and pull lower back due to the fact Brown's power could have been risky. Satish did properly to tire him out by way of shifting around the ring and it truely helped that our boy had lighter toes," Nieva said.
The past due bloomer from Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr is an Army guy, who used to play kabaddi, and turned into added to the game attributable to his proper body by the Army coaches.
The 31-yr-vintage Brown, who is the primary boxer from his us of a to qualify for the Games in view that 1996, changed into Jamaica's flag-bearer at the opening rite.
He is the co-founding father of 'Sensi Juice', an organic juice enterprise based in Canada.
The juices which can be produced by way of his company are infused with Cannabis.
Brown additionally labored as a chef in Jamaica until 2014.
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