DUBAI: Six-time world Winner MC Mary Kom (51kg) signed with a silver medal at the Asian Boxing Championships Later Heading down at an Extreme final against Nazym Kyzaibay of Kazakhstan on Sunday.
Mary Kom dropped in a broken 2-3 verdict.
This was her seventh trophy in the championship, the original being a golden which came far back from the 2003 version.
Up against a competition 11 years younger for her, the 38-year-old created an impressive beginning and uttered the opening around smoothly by relying upon her sharp counter-attacks.
The intensity picked up at the next round and the fighters revealed competitive aim.
The Kazakh attracted level at this stage along with her jabs landing flawlessly.
Mary Kom fought in the last few minutes but this wasn’t sufficient to find the judges’ nod.
The Manipuri legend won a prize money of $5,000 because of her effort, although Kyzaibay had been richer by $10,000.
Kyzaibay is a two-time world winner and also a six-time national winner.
On Monday, Amit Panghal (52kg), Shiva Thapa (64kg) and Sanjeet (91kg) may battle it out from the men’s finals.
Panghal will square off against reigning Olympic and world champion Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan.
It’ll be a replica of this 2019 world tournament final where the Indian had dropped to settle for silver.
Thapa is going to soon be up from Mongolia’s Baatarsukh Chinzorig, who’s the Games silver-medallist.
Sanjeet takes on Kazakh legend Vassiliy Levit, who’s pursuing his fourth gold in the showpiece.
Eight other Indians — that the Olympic-bound trio of all Simranjit Kaur (60kg), Vikas Krishan (69kg), along with Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), also Jaismine (57kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (64kg), Monika (48kg), Saweety (81kg) and Varinder Singh (60kg) — procured bronze medals after semifinal losses.
They also have a prize funds of $2,500 each with their third-place finishes.
