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Guys, let's keep the spirit up, we just did so well in boxing the Olympics are on and will happen in time, even Euro 2020 hasn't been postponed yet, just a cancellation of events for around a month, I'm sure things will fall in place soon.

I think UK is being rather brave or dumb depending on your point of view ..... Two major sports events..... Boxing European qualifier and badmintons all England both on........ Stuff upper lip ??

Well India have a chance to make history.... No country ( after the women's have been added) has ever qualified a full 13 member team..... Kaz in 2016 got 12 and US in 2012 had qualified 12 .... Can India do 13 ..
 
... In my opinion we can easily qualify the two lighter weights in both woman ( sonia instead if sakshi) and men ( gaurav) ... It is the 81 and 91 men which is tough...... Sumit Sangwan ( in place of Naman) and? ...... Exciting prospect is Vijender ( Olympic bronze medallist of beijing) who turned pro and is now one of the leading middle weights in the world...... He has said that he is interested and has said if he is given exemption from camps he will be happy to fight for national selection....... Wow hope that happens as this is a chance to make history for India...... 

hard to be calm these days that was a very good example. I'm not mad at American journalists, they usually write these kind of nonsense without knowing a shit about other countries. I get used to it. I rarely remember such things from journalists who actually traveled to Iran though
 
I'm mostly mad at those Iranians giving them these kind of information. specially twitter is full of these kind of videos. most of them by fake accounts. this is their way of "fighting" the current corrupt regime, by being more corrupt ! this is disgusting to consider this as an opportunity.
 
China did a remarkable job monitoring everybody, tracking every single infected person, that's simply not possible here, and if officials don't take a drastic decision like what Italy did we are going that path to need mass graves . I give up  on people to be responsible. we have the Persian new year in few days, which means more traveling, more partying, more kissing, more hugging and of course more coronavirus.

Calm down bro. It's not the first and not the last "interesting" news from US media. We are so used to it and just let it be. Let me show you something reported by NY times with 20 minutes interval which shows their attitudes towards the lockdown in Wuhan and Italy. One is violation of human right and the other is sacrificing themselves to save the Europe.
 

Pretty happy with my prediction ..... I think I was bang on ? and pretty much with who would qualify given in my detailed analysis...... I had said gaurav, naman, sachin and one of the two girls sakshi / simranjit would not...... 

Shivpal Singh qualifies to Tokyo.
So India attain it's 73 athlete in Tokyo.

Lovely lovely bout by Magnificent Mary ……… This women has the best intelligence I see in a women boxer …… at times may  lack of the reach for the 51 kgs ( she made her reputation in the 46/48 where she would be peerless ) but still what a boxing brain  

… If you look at the Jordanians in general -There were 6 of whom 2 were seeded and hence did not meet UZB / KAZ out of the remaining  4 unseeded JOR boxers ….1 met with a UZB another was to meet with MGL ….. so 2/4 did meet some of the nations you specified …     ( you cannot then say hey it is suspicious that these two did not meet these nations ….. In fact it would be suspicious if every unseeded JOR met with UZB / KAZ etc)   So speaking strictly for me I found the draw reasonably fair …...

Wow talk about only presenting part of the facts  :  you are  presenting just the easy fights and ignoring the difficult fights :  they also had fights against KOR, 
UZB, JAP, AUS, THAI ... The TJK boxer by the way was the Asian championship winner  so that was not easy fight as well...... The SAM ah tong had defeated the IRI in the first round so a decent boxer too..... 
 
 
All the bouts were fairly judged as far as I could see....there was none of the clear cheating
 
... Also JOR did win 2 medals in the last Asian championship.... So not an incredibly huge leap to qualify 4 .... Crowd energy does help a bit...... 
But none of that horrible AIBA judging for sure this time. . .. The draws were fair as well....... Take obadeh of JOR... His first fight was against the Asian Games bronze JAP, then the TJK Asian champion.... No way is that an easy draw....  You can watch the bouts they were fairly judged
 
 

Getting into the Quarters ( and just one bout from determining majority of quota places ) . This is the status of the countries still in the qualifiers 
 
Ind  11 Kaz 10 Uzb 9 Chn 9 Thai 8 Mgl 8 Aus 8 IRI 5 Jor 5 Phi 5 Tjk 4 Kor 4 Tpe 4 Jap 3 Vie 3 Sam 2 Nzl 2 Ina 1 Syr 1 Bhr 1 Hkg 1  
 
Only KAZ got all 8 men in ,   IND and MGL got all 5 women in 
 
Obviously thrilled with India's performance overall, the squad has boxed well and seemed in good form
( except for the Jester in our pack Naman in 81 )  ,
but we did have a relatively easy draw on the whole .. 
                                                                                   

looks like Kaz may drop one for the semis ….Chinas Hu gives a boxing lesson to bibossinov ….. one of the best boxing contests till now 

looks like Kaz may drop one for the semis ….Chinas Hu gives a boxing lesson to bibossinov ….. one of the best boxing contests till now 

Well..... Whatever CHN is doing seems working.they are getting less than 50 cases
 
Also South Korea also seems to be reducing cases 
 
..... Italy had announced a quarantine lockdown for northern Italy : hope it works , high time and possibly can bring new cases down........ 
 
I think if IRI can push the cases down..... We may see a reduction of corona..... 
 
 
Currently 2/3 of the cases are just in two countries..... 
 
I think if airport testing and push for rapid testing of chain of infection cases works for the other countries we can really get control

KAZ and UZB have been the top two boxing nations globally in mens  for the last few years ….. so it is not suprising they have mostly made it to the top 4 here …...
 
I think KAZ seems to be close to having a perfect mens tournament till now and possibly all 8 may qualify , UZB has already surprisingly lost 2 already and could have just 5 out of 8 into semis , china have never been too good at mens ( they have dominated the womens )... they  may just end up with 2-3 in the semis 

well essentially each judge scores on 1) no of reasonably strong blows in the target area 2) Technical and Tactical superiority …… The first is reasonably objective but the second is somewhat subjective ( the amateur preference is for the typical Cuban dance style - Light on feet , quick hands, movement of head )
 
there can be deductions for technical infringements …….
 
 
In the Mousavi Vs Taglatihan fight …… I think it was a reasonably even fight on punches scored Mousavi won rd 1 and Rd 2 , Taglathian rd 3...…. but technically I think the Chinese boxer was superior ….. Mousavi just lunges and then gets into the clinch ( rather than the technical hit and dance back )  ……. I feel the overall fight was really close ….. so not one of those real outright steals we used to see under AIBA and in fact I feel the judging of the Asian qualifiers have been reasonably good till now 
 
 
 

wow the mousavi vs taglathian bout looked an MMA event than a boxing round 

@ all Indian friends...sorry, guys! my mistake on the women's Middleweights...fixed now...

India won in the ind vs thai fight womens middle weight

well essentially each judge scores on 1) no of reasonably strong blows in the target area 2) Technical and Tactical superiority …… The first is reasonably objective but the second is somewhat subjective ( the amateur preference is for the typical Cuban dance style - Light on feet , quick hands, movement of head )
 
there can be deductions for technical infringements …….
 
 
In the Mousavi Vs Taglatihan fight …… I think it was a reasonably even fight on punches scored Mousavi won rd 1 and Rd 2 , Taglathian rd 3...…. but technically I think the Chinese boxer was superior ….. Mousavi just lunges and then gets into the clinch ( rather than the technical hit and dance back )  ……. I feel the overall fight was really close ….. so not one of those real outright steals we used to see under AIBA and in fact I feel the judging of the Asian qualifiers have been reasonably good till now 
 
 
 

So, these are QF line ups-

Men's Flyweight - Amit Panghal vs. Carlo Palam (PHI) - Amit had won against Palam at last year's world championships 4-1, it can be a close one though with Amit slight favorite

Men's Lightweight- Manish Kaushik vs. Chinzorig Baatrasukh (MGL) - Not much know of Mongolian, Manish should be favorite

Men's Welterweight- Vikash Krishan Yadav vs. Quicy Okazwa (JPN)- Japanese is 2019 Asian championships silver medalist, so it will be a close one.

Men's Middleweight - Ashish Kumar vs. Mikhel Robero Muskita (INA) - Ashish would be favorite

Men's Light Heavyweight- Sachin Kumar vs. Chen Daixing (CHN) - Again not much achievement from Chinese but Sachin is also a newbi, so a close one

Men's Super Heavyweight - Satish Kumar vs. Daivii Otgonbayar (MGL) - Satish would be favoured here

Women's Flyweight - Marykom vs. Magno Irish (PHI)- Mary would be clear favorite here

Women's Featherweight- Sakshi vs. Im Aeji (KOR) - both are new boxers. So, a close one

Women's Lightweight - Simranjeet Kaur vs. Monkhor Namuun (MGL)- Namuun was a QF at WC and bronze medalist at Asian championships while Simran was a silver medalist in higher weight class, so this will be an even bout

Women's Welterweight - Borgohain Lovlina vs. Melieva Maftunakhon (UZB) - Lovlina was WC bronze medalist , so would be favourite here

Women's Middleweight- Pooja Rani vs. Chutee Pornnipa (THA) - Pooja was AC 2019 gold medalist, so favourite here.

So, at least 6 out of 11 bouts we would be favoured, other 5 will be close and few will get a second chance even if they lose in QF. So, expecting about 8 quotas from her for Tokyo olympics. Anything more will be a bonus.

Pooja, Lovlina on womens side and Vikas,Sachin, Ashish and Satish will have their QF today.

Getting into the Quarters ( and just one bout from determining majority of quota places ) . This is the status of the countries still in the qualifiers 
 
Ind  11 Kaz 10 Uzb 9 Chn 9 Thai 8 Mgl 8 Aus 8 IRI 5 Jor 5 Phi 5 Tjk 4 Kor 4 Tpe 4 Jap 3 Vie 3 Sam 2 Nzl 2 Ina 1 Syr 1 Bhr 1 Hkg 1  
 
Only KAZ got all 8 men in ,   IND and MGL got all 5 women in 
 
Obviously thrilled with India's performance overall, the squad has boxed well and seemed in good form
( except for the Jester in our pack Naman in 81 )  ,
but we did have a relatively easy draw on the whole .. 
                                                                                   

I saw this bout... It was close, I felt that Aus did win a close fight..... It was the first very close UZB bout I have seen in the last couple of years that UZB has lost ( Under UZB presdent ) ...... So definitely feel this non AIBA led qualifier had been far fairer than earlier AIBA led events ??

Women....  Hugely talented squad all are in qtrs except Mary
 
Mary kom...51 ... World legend.....6 time world champion, current bronze medallist in 51 ...Seeded second... Has two bouts but is facing a relatively easy draw...should qualify fairly easily..... 
 
Sakshi 57 ....twice youth gold medallist 2017, 2018.....is young . Has won against the 4th seed THA... was not really fluid..... And possibly a bit lucky to win..... Faces Aeji of KOR.... Aeji was fairly fluid but I think Sakshi would win 
 
 
Simranjit 60 ....2018 world bronze... Faces second seed MGL .......can win I feel as I feel Namuun is not that great a boxer.... But may be close... 
 
Lovlina... 69 ...2018 ,.2019 world bronze, seeded second should win one bout as has an easy draw... 
 
Pooja....75 ...current Asian champ 2019 ...Seeded 4th ... Has just one bout against unknown THA should win.... 
 
 
Should have 4-5 qualifiers after that the real work would start I think

Looking forward to the qualifiers....India in the men... Ashish and Satish in qtrs rest in rd of 16 ... In my opinion India has a great squad in lower weights upto 75 and an average sqd after that
 
1. Amit...52...top seeded...Should qualify easily he has pretty average boxers for the next 2 bouts and he is current Asian champ... World silver... 
 
2 . Gaurav...... 57 ..... Facing a very tough next bout miraziz of uzb(  Current world champ )1... So 90% get eliminated ... Pity as he is a real beautiful boxer lovely straight lines... I think kavinder was not an attractive boxer.. Very old fashioned shell guard
 
3. Manish kaushik...63... Shocked that he is not seeded....current world bronze medallist .. Faces PNG boxer and MGL third seed..... I feel he can win both .... He is one graceful boxer.. Really one of our best 
 
4. Vikas... 69 ....firmer world bronze medalist and . In my view Indias most talented boxer.... Often badly prepared... Has been away for a year tried to turn pro ... But I think he looks focussed and has dropped a weight class..... But should win against KGZ and JPN.... 
 
5. Ashish... 75 .... Lovely lines and has a huge height advantage eliminated the 3rd seed Uulu should win against INA I believe..... 
 
6 . Sachin..... 81... Very unknown.... Faces a relatively easy draw... SAM and than a comparatively weak KGZ seed ..... But no clue.... 
 
7 Naman... 91 .... I think may beat SYR in rd of 16 ..... He is I think is not at all graceful boxer... 
Will probably lose to Nyika of NZL..... ( personally I think Sumit Sangwan is a better boxer in this weight) 
 
8 .Satish... 91+ ....seeded 4 ....Should qualify has only one bout against MGL.... He is a very workmanlike boxer and should win.... 
 
I hope for 4-5 qualifiers