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Journalism of Courage
AMBALA Cantonment, Jan 20: The bout slated to be the fight of evening did not turnout that way after all. V. Jollyson of the Steel Plants Sports Board (SPSB), among the most promising boxers in the country today, sent his arch rival K. Mani of the Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) crashing on the canvas for the third time in less than five minutes and the referee stopped the contest.
That was the pre-quarter final brawl of the light welter category in the 44th Senior National Boxing championships, which everyone in the Indoor Hall of War Heroes Memorial Stadium Had come to watch.
RESULTS: Light fly (pre-quarters): Sandeep Sharma (Har) bt Paramjit Singh (MP) RSC (OC), Robert Thapa (Miz) w/o Ganesh Singh (Oris), Bhim Singh (Pun), bt Mathuvanan (TN) on pts, H Srinivas (RSCB) bt Pramendra Sharma (UP) Retd 3rd round, Sriram (SPSB) bt Gopal Bahadur Thapa (Goa) on pts, E Nook Raju (AP) bt Mutra Purty (Nagaland) on pts, G Durga Prasad (SSCB) bt S Alam (Ben) RSC (OC), S Suresh Singh (Manipur) bt Romesh Singh (Chd) RSC (OC).
Fly (pre-quarters): Lakhwinder Singh (RSCB) bt Vinod Kumar (Raj) on pts, B Sah (SPSB) bt Sanjeet Chauhan (HP) RSC (OC), Rama Rao (AP) bt Man Bahadur Thapa (Goa) RSC (OC), S Jacob (Man) bt Subhash Mathi (MP) on pts, Rajesh Basnet (Ben) bt Pramod Negi (CHD) on pts, Naveen (Har) bt Anish Kumar (Bihar) on pts, K Jothilingam (TN) bt Kabi Raja Gouda (Oris) RSC.
Feather: (first round): Satish Yadav (SSCB) bt Ramuri Singh (Oris) RSC, Manoj Kumar (Ker) bt Sunar Pradeep (Megh) RSC, DS Negi (Chd) bt Afzal Ali (Bih) on pts, U Bhaskar (RSCB) bt B Giridhar (AP) RSC, Karan sonkar (MP) bt Arvind (Raj) on pts, Rajeev Kumar (Har) bt Ramesh (TN) RSC, Mustaq (J&K) bt Mahesh Mundlik (Mah) RSC, Manoj Anwar (Del) bt Randip (CISF) RSC (OC).
