DUBAI: Six-time world winner MC Mary Kom (51kg) will search her first gold if she squares off from Kazakhstan’s Nazym Kyzaibay from the girls 51kg closing of the Asian Boxing Championships on Sunday.
The 38-year-old Olympic-bound Mary Kom had prevailed 4-1 over Mongolia’s Lutsaikhan Altantsetseg at the semifinals on Thursday.
She’ll face a stiff challenge by the two-time world winner Kyzaibay from the summit clash.
Another Olympic-bound fighter Pooja Rani, that obtained a walk-over from the semi-finals, will struggle from an in-form Mavluda Movlonova of Uzbekistan, that stopped the battle of London Olympics medallist Marina Volnova at the last-4 period.
Anupama (+81kg) and also Lalbuatsahi (64kg) may also face powerful Kazakh boxers in their respective finals.
On Monday, defending winner Amit Panghal (52kg), Shiva Thapa (64kg) and Sanjeet (91kg) will likely be observed in action from the men’s gold-medal bouts on Monday.
Panghal will soon be up from 2016 Rio Olympics and world winner Zoirov Shakhobidin of Uzbekistan while Thapa will confront Asian Games silver medallist Baatarsukh Chinzorig of Mongolia.
Second seeded Sanjeet will struggle 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist Vassiliy Levit, who’s pursuing his fourth gold medal of the Asian Championships.
The Indian fighters have ensured their best-ever series by procuring an unprecedented 15 chords, bettering their previous greatest of 13 (two gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze) attained during the 2019 variant.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has spent $4,00,000 prize money with this particular championships.
The gold medallists of people’s and women’s groups will get $10,000 per while the silver and silver winners can take home $5,000 and $2,500 respectively.
Seven Indian pugilists — Simranjit Kaur (60kg), respectively Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), respectively Jaismine (57kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (64kg), Monika (48kg), respectively Saweety (81kg) among girls and Vikas Krishan (69kg) and Varinder Singh (60kg) among guys — have procured bronze awards using their dead-end end.