With their victories on Wednesday at the championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the three are guaranteed at least a bronze.
At the world championships, Deepak Bhoria’s boxing was defined by a deadly left hook. Bhoria had annihilated title holder and Olympics medallist Saken Bibossinov with that weapon in the subsequent round.
He used the left hook again on Diushebaev Nurzhigit of Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday. With a score of 5-0, he breezed into the semi-finals, earning India its first medal from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Mohammad Hussamuddin (57 kg) and Nishant Dev (71 kg), both of whom got off to a winning start thanks to Bhoria, also made it to the semi-finals.
This ensured that India would win three medals and put on its best performance ever at the world championships.
Hussamuddin, a two-time medalist at the Commonwealth Games, defeated the tough Bulgarian Javier Diaz Ibanez via the bout review system to win 4-3. Youthful Nishant was then passed on to fight out with Cuba’s Jorge Cuellar.
The 22-year-old came out tossing strong punches and went after savagely for a consistent triumph.
The three decorations are in Olympic weight classifications, which forecasts well for the Guangzhou Asian Games in September-October, which will be a capability occasion for the Paris Games.
CA Kuttappa, the team’s chief coach, commented, “It is a very good result for Indian boxing in an important year.” He is in Tashkent with the team.
From the beginning, the boys were upbeat and made significant tactical progress. They are effectively putting the strategies into action, are approaching the fight more aggressively, and are landing punches accurately.
The left hook was one of Bhoria’s tactics against Bibossinov. Because they had lost to him at the world championships the previous year, the coaches believed he was not following up his right straight with a second punch.
He has so far fought four opponents with honor. Bhoria will face off against France’s Billal Bennama, who has won two world medals, for a place in the final.
Amit Panghal, a Tokyo Olympian and Commonwealth Games champion who won silver at the 2019 world championships in Russia, is the only Indian boxer to reach the final.
Accomplishing that in this manner stays a significant journey. Bhoria, who was chosen ahead of Panghal, is eager to improve upon that performance.
Regardless of showing a lot of commitment, the gifted Bhoria needed to sit tight for his opportunity, taking on a supporting role to Panghal.
Five months prior, Bhoria was in any event, battling to come to the Indian group as a common shoulder injury got him far from the public titles in January.
However, he made a spectacular comeback because he was too good a boxer to be left out of the national camp.
He beat Panghal in the new selection process, which was implemented this year by Irish high-performance director Bernard Dunne and is based on weekly evaluations.
I’m fighting every session like it’s my last,” said Bhoria, who is aware that Panghal is typically in front of him. I can’t afford to blow on this opportunity.
I’d been waiting patiently for quite some time when he said, “I want to return with a gold medal.”
Hussamuddin, 29, has had to wait longer for a significant medal.
Nikhat Zareen, the Telangana-born women’s world champion and excellent technical boxer, is from Nizamabad.
Boxing is in his blood. Four of Hussamuddin’s six brothers have been boxers, and Hussamuddin’s father, Mohammad Shamsuddin, is a boxing coach.
They had high hopes for me. I was depressed since I hadn’t fulfilled all the requirements for Tokyo, but with my family’s support,
I was able to regain confidence and restart my journey. He will face Cuba’s Horta Rodriguez in the semi-finals.
Nishant had to redouble his efforts to win a medal at the world championships, too. After suffering a setback as a result of shoulder surgery, he lost in the third round the previous year.