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Fazliddin Erkinboev of Uzbekistan and Jaismine Jaismine of India and became the first male and female boxers to win gold medals at the World Boxing Championships 2025 in an action-packed penultimate night at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.

Jaismine was first to strike gold as she defeated Poland’s number one seed Julia Szeremeta in a high-class featherweight (W57kg) final. 

Erkinboev followed soon after as he also defeated the number one seed in his weight class, Rami Kiwan of Bulgaria, to secure the men’s middleweight (W75kg) crown.

Following the final bout of the evening, the pair were joined by Poland’s Agata Kaczmarska who defeated Nupur Nupur of India in the women’s heavyweight (W80kg) final.

Speaking in the mixed zone, after becoming the first ever World Boxing Champion, Jaismine said: “I really feel very good. This is my first ever medal and also, I become a world champion, so it’s a great feeling for me. All I can do is that my only motive is that I have to make my country proud.

“And because of our coaches, because of our federation and because of our supporting staff, that’s why I win today.”

The three finals concluded an evening session which started with 10 semi-finals in the women’s flyweight (W51kg), light-middleweight (W70kg) and light-heavyweight (W80kg+) weight classes and the men’s light-middleweight (M70kg) and cruiserweight (M85kg) categories.

First up at flyweight was the number one seed Buse Naz Cakiroglu who has been one of most consistent boxers in the competition.  And the Turk did not disappoint as she secured a 4-1 victory over Feruza Kazakova of Uzbekistan to set-up a final against Alua Balkibekova of Kazakhstan.

At light-middleweight Torekhan Sabyrkhan of Kazakhstan overcame a sustained onslaught from England’s Odel Kamara to edge a 4-1 victory, much to the disappointment of the home crowd. 

Kamara started strongly and seemed to be connecting frequently in the second round, but the judges’ saw it differently scored both the second and third in favour of the Kazak who will box Japan’s Sewonrets Okazawa in tomorrow’s final.

Sadly, for the home nation, the women’s light-middleweight semi, which featured another England versus Kazakhstan match-up followed a similar pattern.  England’s Chantelle Reid started the better of the two, to take the first round on three of the judges’ cards, but Natalya Bogdanova gradually fought her way back in the fight and edged it on a narrow 3-2 split.

Bogdanova will meet the Australian number one seed Lekeisha Pergoliti who looked impressive in her unanimous 5-0 win over Kazakhstan’s Aziza Zokirova.

After two narrow losses in the men and women’s light-middleweight semis, the home nation finally got some joy at cruiserweight when Teagn Stott defeated Ukraine’s Danylo Zhasan.

Boxing in front Ukraine’s legendary world heavyweight champion, Oleksandr Usyk, who is in Liverpool for the Championships, Zhasan, struggled to get to grips with Stott’s sharp jab.  And though he rallied in the third, it was not enough to disrupt the Englishman who managed the fight well to run out a 4-1 winner and set-up a final with Uzbekistan’s Akmaijon Isroiliv.

The final semi of the evening session was in the women’s light-heavyweight division where wins for England’s Emily Asquith and Australia’s Eseta Flint will see them meet in tomorrow’s final. 

Earlier in the day, the first session featured 14 semi-finals in the women’s light-flyweight (W48kg), bantamweight (W54kg) and middleweight (W75kg) and the men’s flyweight (M50kg) bantamweight weight (M55kg) welterweight (M65kg) and light-heavyweight (M80kg) divisions.

At light-flyweight the bouts went to form with victories for Kazakhstan’s number one seed, Nazym Kyzaibay, and the number three seed from India, Minakshi Minakshi. The pair will meet in tomorrow’s final.

The bantamweight category saw two unanimous 5-0 victories for the Yoseline Perez of the USA and Chinese Tapiei’s Hsiao-Wen Huang, in sprang a minor surprise in defeating the number two seed and Paris 2024 medallist, Aeji Im of Korea.  Huang and Perez in the final in tomorrow’s early session.    

A see-sawing middleweight clash between Ireland’s Aoife O’Rourke and China’s Lima Wang was one of the most entertaining bouts of the early session and could have gone either way until a decisive final round from the Irish boxer have her a 4-0 victory.  2024 Olympian, O’Rourke will meet Busra Isildar of Turkey in the final after she overcame Australia’s Emma Greentree.

In the men’s flyweight contests a shoot-out of the top four seeds saw Kazakhstan’s Sanzhar Tashkenbay overcome Alejando Claro Fiz of Cuba and Mongolia’s Battuga Aldarkhishig get the better of Soushi Makino of Japan.

The Kazak team enjoyed more success at bantamweight as Makhmud Sabyrkhan secured a unanimous 5-0 victory over Chuang Liu of China to set-up a final with Spain’s Rafael Lozano Serrano who defeated Ireland’s Patsy Joyce in the second semi-final.

Boxing off the backfoot, Joyce had looked in charge after a strong first round, but the Spaniard came back strongly in the second before nicking a cagey final round on three of the five judges’ cards to secure a razor thin 3-2 victory.

The first welterweight semi-final was one of the most eagerly awaited bouts of the day as Cuba’s Paris 2024 gold medallist, Erislandy Alvarez, met Brazil’s highly rated Yuri Falcao.  Both boxers showed their full range of skills, but it was the Brazilian who did the more eye-catching work take the fight 4-0.

Falcao will face Uzbekistan’s Asadhkuja Muydinkhujaev in the final, who was given a walkover after his Georgian opponent pulled out with a hand injury.

The last two bouts of the morning saw victories for Javokhir Ummataliev of Uzbekistan and France’s Yojerlin Cesar at light-heavyweight.  They will meet in Sunday’s final.

Tomorrow will see 17 finals over two sessions of boxing, which start at 12:00 BST and 18:00 BST.  Over the day ten men and ten women will be crowned World Boxing Champions.

RESULTS:

All of today’s results are available at: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

INFORMATION:

The daily schedule, official draw and all results and additional information can be found on the event’s official website: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

WATCH:

The World Boxing Championships 2025 is being livestreamed on World Boxing’s website via Eurovision Sport (available in selected territories) at https://worldboxing.org/watch-the-world-boxing-championships/.

LIVE SCORING:

Fans can stay up to date with all of the action in every session of boxing with live scoring at https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/live-schedule-results

PHOTOS:

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SOCIAL MEDIA:

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BRAZIL’s Rebeca De Lima Santos became the first boxer to secure a place in the final of the World Boxing Championships when she defeated Viktoriya Grafeyeva of Kazakhstan in their lightweight (W60kg) semi-final.

She will meet Aneta Rygielska in the final after the Pole defeated Chengyu Yang of China on a razor thin 3-2 split after a fantastic contest which concluded the afternoon session of boxing at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.

Speaking in the mixed zone after her victory, De Lima Santos said: “I feel amazing. This is where I planned to be, what I was working for. And as I said to you, I’m coming for the gold. 

“It was all planned, I had a conversation with my team. We prepared for this. We’ve been through a lot this year. I had a rough beginning, this year I lost at home at the World Boxing Cup Foz Do Iguacu, and I put in my mind that I was never going to let it happen again. And since then, I’ve been working a lot. And I deserve this, and I deserve my gold.

“I don’t think I changed my boxing, but I changed my mentality and what I’m doing with my boxing, I changed my mentality to get 100% off my boxing. Don’t let anybody out boxing me. So, this is happening and I’m happy with my progress.”

The Brazilian’s victory was followed by 14 more semi-finals in the evening session which began with a bout of contrasting styles as Columbia’s Valeria Arboleda Mendoza took on Paris 2024 silver medallist, Julia Szeremeta of Poland at featherweight (W57kg).

Although the Polish number one seed deployed her skilful footwork and persistent switching to try and confuse her opponent, she did not have it all her own way but did enough to win on a split decision.  She will meet India’s Jaismine Jaismine in the final on Saturday night.

The first welterweight (W65kg) semi saw a terrific tussle between Ireland’s Grainne Walsh and Aida Abiikeyeva with both boxers repeatedly landing over three hard fought rounds. In the end, the judges felt the Kazakh did the better work and handed her a victory that was much closer than the unanimous scoreline might suggest.  Abikeyeva will meet Navbakhor Khamidova of Uzbekistan in Sunday’s final.

In the women’s heavyweight (80kg+), one seed, Nupur Nupur of India, advanced to the finals via a comfortable 5:0 decision against Türkiye’s Seyma Duztas. It wasn’t to be for the second seed, Kazakhstan’s Yeldana Talipova, however, who suffered a defeat to Poland’s Agata Kaczmarska. It was the third win on a successful for day for the nation.

The men’s lightweight competition gave the crowd another opportunity to see Paris 2024 gold medallist, Abdumalik Khalokov of Uzbekistan, who is yet to lose a round in Liverpool. 

However, it was cut short in round two when the referee stopped the contest after an accidental clash of heads with his opponent Shunsuke Kitamoto of Japan. The bout went to the cards where Khalokov was leading with five judges to secure another unanimous victory.

He will meet Brazil’s Luis Oliveira in what promises to be a mouthwatering final on Sunday night.

At middleweight it was the battle of the southpaws as number one seed and Paris Olympian Rami Kiwan of Bulgaria clashed with local favourite, Callum Makin.

Round one saw Kiwan use his long reach to try and take control with the jab, while Makin frequently countered by doubling up his own jab. A point deduction for Makin in round two saw the Bulgarian take the upper hand and he saw the fight out in the third to secure a unanimous victory and set-up a final with Uzbekistan’s Fazliddin Erkinboev.

Two upsets followed at men’s heavyweight with the favourite, Loren Berto Alfonso Domingues of Azerbaijan, falling short to Brazil’s Isaias Santos Ribeiro Filho in a thrilling bout. The Brazilian unanimously won the first round before narrowly losing the next two rounds while doing just enough to maintain a 3:2 win.

Filho will meet Uzbekistan’s Turabek Khabibullaev in the final, who defeated the number two seed, Enmanuel Reyes Pla of Spain, with a 4:1 decision.

The super heavyweights once again delivered exciting action to bring the day to a close. Uzbekistan’s Jakhongir Zokirov put on a clinic to beat China’s Danabieke Bayikewuzi in a unanimous decision. There were multiple counts for Bayikewuzi who performed admirably in the face of a dominant performance from the 22-year-old Uzbek.

Zokirov will face Kazakhstan’s Aibek Oralbay who won a fascinating session finale fight against Cuba’s iconic Julio Cesar La Cruz. The first round had Oralbay ahead by one, before he unanimously took the second leaving too much work for Cuba’s star to do in the third. La Cruz did his best, even earning a count from the referee on his opponent and taking the final round, but the points didn’t swing back enough meaning the two-time Olympic gold medallist departs the competition with a bronze medal.

Earlier in the day, the quarter finals were brought to a close with 12 quarter finals in the women’s light-flyweight (W48kg) competition and the men’s bantamweight (55kg) and cruiserweight (M85kg) divisions.

The light-flyweight competition saw the first and third seeds, Nazym Kyzaibay of Kazakhstan and India’s Minakshi Minakshi progress to the semis whilst the second and fourth seeds, Hikaru Shinohara of Japan and Italy’s crashed out of the competition.

At bantamweight, Cuba’s number one seed, Alejando Claro Fiz started slowly and had to fight of a spirited performance by Turkey’s Samet Gamus to scrape into the next round 3-2, 

It was the same for number three seed, Soushi Makino of Japan who did just enough to edge out Uzbekistan’s Shodiyorjon Melikuziev in one of the best bouts of the session on the narrowest of splits.

At cruiserweight, Teagn Stott impressed with a second round stoppage of Bulgaria’s Semion Boldirev to secure the home nation’s fifth medal of Championships. 

Stott started strongly using his sharp jab to good effect and inflicted a standing count on his opponent in the first.  He delivered two more standing counts in round two before the referee decided he had seen enough and called the contest off.  Stott will face Ukraine’s Danylo Zhasan in the semi-finals.

Tomorrow’s two sessions will see 24 more semi-finals and the first three finals of the competition in the women’s featherweight and heavyweight categories and the men’s middleweight division.

RESULTS:

All of today’s results are available at: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

INFORMATION:

The daily schedule, official draw and all results and additional information can be found on the event’s official website: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

WATCH:

The World Boxing Championships 2025 is being livestreamed on World Boxing’s website via Eurovision Sport (available in selected territories) at https://worldboxing.org/watch-the-world-boxing-championships/.

LIVE SCORING:

Fans can stay up to date with all of the action in every session of boxing with live scoring at https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/live-schedule-results

PHOTOS:

A free photo gallery of images from every session is available. Images can be downloaded directly for free – https://www.flickr.com/photos/203447206@N02/albums

SOCIAL MEDIA:

World Boxing will be posting updates throughout the competition on its social media channels:

• Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/officialworldboxing/
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• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWorldBoxing

Six athletes have been selected to serve on World Boxing’s Athletes Committee following elections at the inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool.

The new Athletes Committee is made up of Buse Naz Çakıroğlu (Turkey), Caitlin Parker (Australia), Daniel Pitt (Wales), Richard Torrez Jr. (USA), Yojerlin Cesar (France) and Zareen Nikhat (India).

Parker and Torrez Jr. have previously served on the committee and were re-elected following the electoral process in Liverpool, which allowed every athlete attending the World Boxing Championships to vote. Çakıroğlu, Cesar and Nikhat have all competed at the World Boxing Championships this week.

Speaking on his re-election, Torrez Jr. said: “I’m incredibly happy to be back on the Athletes Commission, it is an honour, I’m just trying to give the voice for the athletes. I think it’s a crucial part of World Boxing because, at the end of the day, everything is about the athlete.

“I’m thankful for these elections because now we’re able to have a committee with different voices from different areas of the world. That’s incredibly important because what is my problem might not necessarily be the problem of someone in another continent.

“The first few years were about creating rules and regulations for World Boxing, and how we could get boxing back to the Olympics. I think these next couple of years are where the voice really is going to matter and how we can make boxing great.”

The Committee, which provides advice, guidance and opinions to World Boxing, is designed to ensure that boxers have a voice in the development of the organisation.

In addition to its role as a forum for discussing the needs of athletes, the group of six will nominate two of its members to serve as Athlete Representatives, who will be invited to attend and contribute directly to World Boxing Executive Board meetings and sessions of Congress.

Sixty-four boxers from twenty-seven countries secured a guaranteed medal in a dramatic day of quarter-final action at the World Boxing Championships 2025 in Liverpool.

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan were comfortably the two most successful nations on the day with seven and eight wins respectively, while the two nations met five times themselves. In their head-to-head fights, it was Uzbekistan who came out on top with four wins to one.

The most eye-catching results of the day came among those duels, when Paris 2024 silver medallist, Nurbek Oralbay, was comprehensively defeated 5-0 by Javokhir Ummataliev in the men’s light-heavyweight (M80kg). 

The early session opened with a series of female contests and delivered an immediate surprise at bantamweight (W54kg) where the Paris silver medallist, Hatice Akbas was comprehensively outpointed by Italy’s Sirine Charaabi. 

The Italian shocked the number one seed with a fast start and though the Turkish number one seed fought back in the third, it was not enough to prevent Charaabi taking the bout and a place in Saturday’s semi-final, where she will meet Yoseline Perez of the USA.

The lightweight (W60kg) category went largely to form with victories for Rebeca Santos of Brazil, Kazakhstan’s Viktoriya Grafeyeva, Chengyu Yang of China and Poland’s Aneta Rygielska.

However, there were surprises in store at middleweight (75kg) as Brazilian third seed Viviane Pereira lost to Lina Wang of China and Norway’s highly rated number two seed Sunniva Hofstad went out on a 4-1 split to Ireland’s Aoife O’Rourke.

The women’s bouts in the early session concluded with victories for India’s Nupur Nupur, Yilian Zhan from China, Yeldana Talipova of Kazakhstan and Turkey’s Seyma Duztas, who went through in style with a first round stoppage of Saudi Arabia’s Noof Alyousef.

The bantamweight contest (M54kg) opened with surprise defeat for the Dominican Republic’s number one seed, Junior Alcantara Reyes who was undone by a terrific final round by Liu Chuang that enabled the Chinese boxer to edge the contest 3-2 and set-up a semi-final with Sabyrkhan Makhmud of Kazakhstan.

Next up was hometown favourite Odel Kamara who was facing Mongolia’s Byamba-Erdene Otgonbaatar at light-middleweight (M70kg).  Backed by a noisy home crowd, the English number two seed did not have it all his own way however his fast hands and speed on the counter provided decisive as he secured another unanimous victory.  He will meet Torekhan Sabyrkhan in Saturday’s semi-final.

The early session concluded with four heavyweight bouts which saw wins for Loren Berto Alfonso Domingues of Azerbaijan, Brazil’s Isaias Filho, Turaek Khabibullaev of Uzbekistan and Spain’s Emmanuel Reyes Pla who all go into Friday’s semi-finals.

A further thirty-two quarter finals were fought in the evening session, opening with the women’s flyweight (51kg) and closed out by the men’s superheavyweights (90kg+). The latter witnessed a shock result as the weight’s top seed, Italy’s Diego Lenzi, suffered a defeat to China’s Danabieke Bayikewuzi with the Italian receiving two deductions for warnings from the referee.

Cuba’s four-time Olympian, Julio Cesar La Cruz, narrowly avoided the same fate having lost the first round to England’s Damar Thomas, but using his experience to claw back and win via split decision. La Cruz will face Aibek Oralbay in the semi final while Bayikewuzi takes on Jakhongir Zokirov for a place in the gold medal match.

Earlier in the evening Turkiye’s Buse Naz Cakiroglu, the top seed in the women’s flyweight, kicked things off with a confident unanimous decision victory against India’s Zareen Nikhat. The only other remaining seed in the category, Alua Balkibekova of Kazakhstan, also delivered a clinical win against Chinese Taipei’s Yi-Xuan Guo.

Speaking after the fight, Cakiroglu said: “This match was indeed like a final since Zareen is not only a good boxer but also possesses a wealth of experience. We encountered him in the quarter finals today. Ideally, we would have faced each other in the finals, but instead, we are here.

“It was a lovely and tough match. Even with the warning, it was a great match. I hope the semi-finals and finals will be equally enjoyable. I just want to return home as a champion.”

Julia Szeremeta, the favourite in women’s featherweight (57kg), followed suit with a victory but was made to work for it by Kazakhstan’s Karina Ibragimova. Ibragimova impressed in the first round to secure a lead, before Poland’s Olympic silver medallist fought back in the following rounds to win via a 3:2 decision.

The women’s welterweight (65kg )was headlined by a bout between category the favourite Liu Yang, from China, and Ireland’s Grainne Walsh. The intense affair went down to the wire with Walsh ultimately earning a 3:2 result.

Speaking on her mentality during these World Boxing Championships, Walsh said: “I know that the quality of opposition here is just unreal. We came from the camp in Sheffield where I’ve been inspired by all these people. I’d like to share in the ring with all of them. But like I said, everyone is beatable.”

“Someone said to me yesterday, two arms, two legs, who shows up on the day is the one that walks away with the glory. I’m glad to be on the podium now, but it’s definitely not over yet.”

The remaining categories largely went to form with Uzbekistan’s Abdumalik Khalokov and Brazil’s Luiz Oliveira both winning convincingly in the men’s lightweight (60kg). Japan’s Shunsuke Kitamoto and Bulgaria’s Radoslav Rosenov were the other winners in the category.

The same can be said in the men’s welterweight (65kg) with all four seeds in the category booking their place in the semis. Cuba’s Olympic gold medallist, Erislandey Alvarez, is joined by Brazil’s Yuri Falcao Dos Reis, Georgia’s Lasha Guruli and Uzbekistan’s Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev.

Capping off the action, the men’s middleweight (75kg) saw another hometown win with Callum Makin beating Joshua Ofori of Canada, which sets up the local for a semi final bout versus weight favourite Rami Kiwan.

Tomorrow is a rest day and the action will return on Friday 12 September 2025 with a single ring in the M&S Bank Arena. It will feature quarter finals at light-flyweight (W48kg) and cruiserweight (M85kg) followed by semi-finals in four men’s and four women’s categories.

RESULTS:

All of today’s results are available at: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

INFORMATION:

The daily schedule, official draw and all results and additional information can be found on the event’s official website: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

WATCH:

The World Boxing Championships 2025 is being livestreamed on World Boxing’s website via Eurovision Sport (available in selected territories) at https://worldboxing.org/watch-the-world-boxing-championships/.

LIVE SCORING:

Fans can stay up to date with all of the action in every session of boxing with live scoring at https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/live-schedule-results

PHOTOS:

A free photo gallery of images from every session is available. Images can be downloaded directly for free – https://www.flickr.com/photos/203447206@N02/albums

SOCIAL MEDIA:

World Boxing will be posting updates throughout the competition on its social media channels:

• Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/officialworldboxing/
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Australia’s Lekeisha Pergoliti, Chantelle Reid from England, Natalya Bogdanova from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan’s Aziza Zokirova, are the first four boxers to win a medal at the World Boxing Championships 2025 in Liverpool.

The four women triumphed in their light-middleweight (W70kg) quarter finals to ensure that they will leave Liverpool with at least a bronze medal.

First to claim a medal was Pergoliti who defeated Ireland’s Lisa O’Rourke by the narrowest of 3-2 margins in a see-sawing contest in Ring A.

Seconds later England’s Chantelle Reid, secured victory in Ring B with a comprehensive unanimous points win over Mengge Zhang of China.  It sealed a remarkable turnaround for the Paris 2024 boxer who only returned to Olympic-style boxing eight weeks ago, having considered turning professional.

In the bouts that followed Bogdovana defeated Sema Caliskan of Turkey 5-0 to secure Kazakhstan’s first medal while Zokirova did the same for Uzbekistan as she cruised to a unanimous victory over Germany’s Leonie Mueller.

Speaking in the mixed zone after their bouts Pergoliti and Reid were delighted.

Pergoliti said: “That was a real hard fight. Very hard boxer. Very aggressive. I feel like I kept my composure, and that’s what won me the fight.

“This means a lot to me. This is actually my first world championship and my first year being on the team. For the past two years, I’ve been number two. So I feel like I’ve really worked hard to get here. And I feel like it’s really starting to pay off.

“I always want to be on top of that podium. But, Yeah, I’m just super stoked to be in the semis.”

Reid added: “It’s such a blessing and so grateful to be here. Just can’t thank GB enough for the preparation for this competition. And thank you to my corner, who’ve all been amazing so far and I can’t wait to finish this competition with you.

“We’re going for gold. I can’t see myself leaving the competition with anything less so I’m just going to put that work in. 

“I am grateful to be here and obviously for my primary school teacher for persuading me and encouraging me to come back to GB and go again for the next Olympics and try and get that gold medal I missed out on.

“I feel like I’m flying. I feel fast and strong at the weight. I am feeling amazing at 70kg.”

The quartet of medallists will fight it out in Saturday’s semi-finals.  Reid will take on Bogdanova and Pergoliti will tackle Zokirova.

The rest of the evening session featured 36 bouts across women’s light-flyweight (W48kg) and the men’s flyweight (M50kg), welterweight (M65kg) and cruiserweight (85kg) divisions.

The women’s light flyweight and men’s flyweight and welterweight competitions all went with the formbook as the top four seeds went through in all three categories.

Victories for Alejandro Claro Fiz at flyweight and Erislandy Alvarez at welterweight meant it was a better day for Cuba but they did not have it all their own way.  Claro Fiz had a battle to see of Hungary’s Istvan Szaka while Alvarez had to dig deep in his 3-1 victory over Almaz Orozbekov of Kyrgyzstan.

The evening session finished with eight cruiserweight bouts, that saw both top seeds exit the tournament as Kazakhstan’s number one ranked Bekzad Nurdauletov lost 3-2 to Georgia’s Georgii Kushitashvili while Scotland’s Robert McNulty unanimously defeated India’s second seed Jugnoo Jugnoo. It also marked the end of the tournament for Aryan Saaed Panah who lost on a razor thin 3-2 split to Michael Fares Derouiche of Austria.

Earlier in the day, the morning session featured 29 bouts in the women’s flyweight (W51kg) and lightweight (W60kg) categories and the men’s bantamweight (M55kg) and light-heavyweight (80kg) divisions.

The men’s bantamweight contests went with form as seven of the eight top seeds progressed to the next round.

The only one to miss out was the number two ranked boxer, Javier Ibanez Diaz of Bulgaria who lost on a 3-2 split to Ireland’s Patsy Joyce, after an accidental clash of heads caused the referee to stop the contest after two round and go to the judges’ cards.  Provided he can overcome the nasty looking cut he received, Joyce will face Mirzizbek Mirzakhaliov of Uzbekistan in the quarter finals.

The standout performance in the bantamweight division came from Makhmud Sabrykhan of Kazakhstan who defeated Bashkim Bajoku of Kosovo with a first round knockout to set up a medal bout on Wednesday with Yamaguchi Rui of Japan.

Sabyrkhan’s knockout was one of several excellent performances in a very good session for the Kazakhstan team which won all four of its bouts. 

It included a strong performance by Viktoriya Erafeyeva at lightweight (W60kg), who scored a unanimous victory over the home nation’s Lucy Kings-Wheatley, and a convincing win at light-heavyweight (80kg) by Paris silver medallist and the competition’s number one seed, Nurbek Oralbay.

Faced with a tricky opponent in Tangiathan Tucohhetaerbieke of China, Oralbay came out of the blocks quickly in rounds one and two before easing off in the third as he cruised to unanimous 5-0 victory.  He will meet Javokhir Ummataliev of Uzbekistan in the quarter finals.

The early part of the first session saw the women’s flyweight category complete round of 16.  Turkey’s two-time Olympic silver medallist, Buse Naz Cakiroglu, impressed once again with a very convincing victory over Irismar Cardozo Rojas of Venezuela as she lived up to her status as the number one seed at 51kg. 

She will box India’s former two-time world champion Zareen Nikhat in what promises to be a mouthwatering clash in Wednesday’s quarter finals.

Tomorrow’s session (Wednesday 10 September) promises to be one of the most dramatic days of the whole competition and will feature 64 quarter final bouts, all of which have a medal at stake. The action will get underway at 12:00 BST.

RESULTS:

All of today’s results are available at: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

INFORMATION:

The daily schedule, official draw and all results and additional information can be found on the event’s official website: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

WATCH:

The World Boxing Championships 2025 is being livestreamed on World Boxing’s website via Eurovision Sport (available in selected territories) at https://worldboxing.org/watch-the-world-boxing-championships/.

LIVE SCORING:

Fans can stay up to date with all of the action in every session of boxing with live scoring at https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/live-schedule-results

PHOTOS:

A free photo gallery of images from every session is available. Images can be downloaded directly for free – https://www.flickr.com/photos/203447206@N02/albums

SOCIAL MEDIA:

World Boxing will be posting updates throughout the competition on its social media channels:

• Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/officialworldboxing/
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Uzbekistan continued to impress on day five of the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England is its men and women secured five wins and suffered no defeats on another day of top-class action at the M&S Bank Arena.

The Uzbeks secured two wins in the women’s competition and three in the men’s to continue the impressive form which saw them finish top of the boxing medal table at Paris 2024.

The early session featured 28 round of 16 contests in the women’s bantamweight (W54kg) and light-heavyweight (W80kg) categories and the men’s light-middleweight (M70kg) and heavyweight (90kg) divisions.

Some of the best action came in the men’s light-middleweight competition where Shavkatjon Boltaev of Uzbekistan and Frank Martinez Bernard delivered a dramatic match-up between two high quality operators.

Martinez Bernard had impressed in his previous contest and, after a close first round, seemed to be getting the upper hand when he floored his Uzbek opponent in the second to take the round 10-9 on all five judges’ cards.

However, Boltaev roared back in the third to knockdown the Spaniard. A warning and a point deduction for Martinez Bernard edged the contest in his opponents favour and was enough to see the Uzbek progress to the next round with a 3-0 points win.  He will meet the number one seed from Jordan, Zeyad Eashash, in the quarter-final on Wednesday.

Hometown favourite Odel Kamara delivered another fine performance on his second appearance in the light-middleweight tournament.  Buoyed by a noisy home crowd, he floored his opponent within five seconds of the opening bell and was rarely troubled as he secured a unanimous 5-0 victory over Canada’s Kuwardeep Manu.

In a session which did see a number of knockdowns, the most conclusive came in the heavyweight category where the Malachi Georges of the USA stopped Levente Hunor Kiss in the second round. It added to Georges’s growing reputation as a concussive puncher and followed his recent one punch knockout of Italy’s Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine at the World Boxing Cup in Kazakhstan.

In the women’s competition, Korea’s Paris bronze medallist, Aeji Im, had a scare against England Lauren Mackie at bantamweight.  Mackie put the Korean number two seed under pressure from the opening bell, however Im’s experience enabled her to deal with the onslaught and emerge with a narrow 3-2 win on the judges’ scorecards. She will face Brazil’s Tatian Chagas in the quarter finals.

The four bouts in the women’s light heavyweight category saw victories for Gulsaya Yerzhan of Kazakhstan, China’s Qimeng Zhong, Emilian Koterska of Poland and England’s Emily Asquith, who all move forward to Wednesday’s quarter finals when there will be 64 medal bouts.

The evening session featured 32 bouts spread across the women’s welterweight (W65kg) division and the men’s lightweight (M60kg), middleweight (M75kg) and super-heavyweight (90kg+) categories.

The men’s lightweight contests gave fans the chance to see two of the most accomplished boxers in the competition as Paris 2024 gold medallist, Abdumalik Khalokov and Brazil’s Luiz Gabriel Oliveira progressed to quarter finals. 

As has become customary, Khalokov, did not drop a round as he defeated Italy’s Giuseppe Canonico to set-up a quarter final with Zhexen Bibars of Kazakhstan. Oliveira’s victory was also unanimous and he will face Poland’s Brack Pawel in the next round.

Action in the men’s middleweight (M75kg) and super-heavyweight (M90kg+) categories saw a few upsets in both competitions and featured the stoppage of the tournament so far.

At middleweight, England’s relative newcomer Callum Makin, upset the formbook with a 3-2 split decision victory over Polish number four seed Michal Jarlinski while Ukraine’s Illiusha Pavlo did the same to the number two seed from Kazakhstan, Sabirzhan Akkalykov.

England also caused an upset in the super-heavyweight division as Damar Thomas secured a unanimous win over Brazil’s number two seed, Joel Da Silva. Another seed to go out of the competition was Germany’s Nikita Putilov, who succumbed to Uzbekistan’s Jakhongir Zokirov. It was another sign of the strength of the Uzbek team, which is currently the best performing in the tournament.

If Uzbekistan are the current team of the tournament then a candidate for punch of the tournament came in the men’s middleweight bouts where Canada’s Joshua William Ofori stunned Nuradin Rustambek Uulu with a ferocious right hand that ended their bout before the end of the first round. Ofori’s reward is a quarter-final with Callum Makin on Wednesday evening.

Earlier in the evening the eight bouts in the women’s welterweight competition followed the form book as the top four seeds, Liu Yang of China, Nien-Chin Chen of Chinese Taipei, Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor Khamidova and Yoseline Perez from the USA all progressed to the quarters and the chance to box for a medal.

Tomorrow’s session (Tuesday 9 September) will see the first guaranteed medallists of the Championships when the women’s light-middleweight (W70kg) quarter finals take place in the earlier session which starts at 12:00 BST.

RESULTS:

All of today’s results are available at: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

INFORMATION:

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Cuba’s Paris 2024 gold medallist Erislandy Alvarez made an impressive first appearance in the World Boxing Championships 2025 today on another day of top-class action that featured 64 bouts across six men and women’s weight classes.

Alvarez was never troubled as he cruised to a comfortable 5-0 victory over Oier Ibarreche Conde of Spain without losing a round on any of the five judges’ scorecards and will meet Orozbekov Almaz of Kyrgyzstan in the round of 16 on Tuesday evening. 

His victory provided a boost to a Cuban team that has endured an uncharacteristically difficult start to the competition with five of their eight boxers having exited the competition.

The early session on day four saw the men’s light heavyweight (M80kg) competition ramp-up with 16 bouts in the round of 32.

The majority went to form as seven of the top eight seeds progressed to the next round however Bulgaria’s William Cholov sprung a surprise when he defeated Japan’s number five seed Go Wakaya. The see-saw contest was in the balance after two rounds, but a strong final round from the Bulgarian saw him win it 10-9 on all of the judges’ score cards to secure a unanimous 5-0 victory. 

He will meet Aminiasi Saratibau of Fiji in the last 16 who progressed after his opponent Taj Essoghene Kagho of New Zealand was disqualified in the third round following repeated warnings from the referee.

It was followed by a classic contest between long term rivals USA and Cuba which saw America’s Bobby Gonzales secure a 3-2 split decision victory over Jorge Manuel Soto Napoles. The fight could have gone either way but an assertive round three from Gonzales, saw him get the nod from four judges to secure the narrowest of victories and set-up a last 16 clash with Croatia’s number four seed, Gabrijel Veocic.

Earlier in the session, the round of 32 in the men’s bantamweight session went to form as all eight seeds won. 

The number one seed and Paris 2024 bronze medallist, Junior Alcantara Reyes of the Dominican Republic overcame a potentially tricky challenge from Tokyo 2020 flyweight silver medallist, Carlo Paalam of the Philippines, to move into the last eight where he will face Omid Ahmadisafa who is representing the Boxing Refugee Team.

Ahmadisafa, who is based in Germany, became the second member of Refugee team to win as he eased past Mohammed Almuwallad of Saudi Arabia to set-up a medal bout against the number one seed.

The evening session opened with eight bouts in the women’s featherweight (W57kg) division which has the potential to be one of the most exciting categories in the Championships and featured a number of boxers with impressive CVs.

In the first bout of the evening, Poland’s Paris silver medallist Julia Szeremeta showed why she is the number one seed in the weight class with a unanimous victory over Yan Cai of China.

Although she did not have it all her own way in round one, Szeremeta upped her game in the second and third and her constant switching between orthodox and southpaw frequently bamboozled her opponent and enabled the Pole to repeatedly cuff Cai with a series of left and right hands.  She will meet Khazakhstan’s Karina Ibragimova in the quarter finals.

On her switching style, Szeremeta said: “It helps me to be able to change my stance, even though I didn’t utilize it much in today’s match, it certainly does hinder my opponents when I do this. They don’t know how I will attack. The battle played out just as I imagined, I was in full control, having fun with boxing like I always do, fighting from afar.”

One of the most highly anticipated fights of the evening saw two of this year’s World Boxing Cup winners, Jasmaine Jasmaine of India take on Brazilian number three seed, Jucielen Cerqueira Romeu.

The clash of styles, with both fighters preferring to counter punch, meant the contest never caught fire. In the end, Jasmaine, used her height and reach advantage to pick off her opponent as she secured a unanimous 5-0 victory and a place in the quarter-final against Uzbekistan’s Khumorabonu Mamajonova.

Speaking in the mixed zone after her bout, Jasmaine said: “In this fight we both focused on counter punches so my strategy was to use long punches whether I was going backwards or forwards.”

The evening session finished with 16 men’s welterweight (M65kg) contests across two rings. 

Alvarez’s slick victory was the standout performance as once again the more established names dominated with seven of the top eight seeds progressing to the next round at welterweight. 

In between the women’s featherweight and the men’s welterweight contests, the round of 16 in the women’s light-middleweight (W70kg) stuck to the form book with three of the four top seeds progressing.

The only one that failed to make it through was Polish number three seed, Barbara Marcinkowska, who lost on a 3-2 split to Chantelle Reid of England.  Reid will box China’s Mengge Zhang for a guaranteed bronze medal in Wednesday’s quarter finals.

Tomorrow sees 64 bouts take place across the afternoon (12:00 GMT) and evening sessions (18:00 GMT).

RESULTS:

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A marathon third day of boxing at the World Boxing Championships saw some of the biggest names in the draw enter the tournament and delivered a few surprises across two sessions of top-class action.

In a day which featured 68 bouts, one of the most eagerly awaited appearances of the day came in the evening session when Paris 2024 gold medallist, Abdumalik Khalolov, made his bow in the men’s lightweight (M60kg) division.

The Uzbek superstar had been in imperious in winning gold in Paris and showed his full range of skills as he eased to unanimous victory over Mehmethan Cinar of Turkey. 

He was one of five Uzbek boxers to secure wins on the day as Feruza Kazakova (W51kg), Shavkatjion Boltaev (M70kg) Silora Turdibekova (W60kg) and Olinoy Sotimboeva (W80kg) all maintained the ominously impressive form of the country that finished top of the medal at Paris 2024.

Khalolov’s lightweight division is one of the most exciting categories in the competition and another boxer to make his debut in the competition was Luiz Gabriel Oliveira.  The Brazilian has shone in this year’s World Boxing Cup series and took his unbeaten streak to 15 bouts since Paris 2024, as he outpointed Ramon Ordonez of the USA.

He had been preceded in Ring B by Sunniva Hofstad who is the only boxer, male or female, to win gold in all three World Boxing Cup events this year.  And the talented Norwegian number two seed continued her impressive form in the middleweight category (W75kg) as she secured a unanimous victory over Italy’s Melissa Gemini to set-up a quarter-final with Ireland’s Aiofe O’Rourke, who defeated Monika Langerova of Czechia in her round of 16 contest.

Earlier in the day, the afternoon session delivered a couple of surprises as India’s Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist, Lovlina Borgohain, lost to 5-0 to Türkiye’s Busra Isildar at middleweight (W75kg), while in the men’s light-middleweight (M70kg) division, Germany’s Paris Olympian, Magomed Scachidov, had no answer to a very impressive performance by Spain’s Frank Martinez.

He was followed into the ring by the hometown favourite, Odel Kamara (M70kg) of England.  The local hero was clearly inspired by a noisy and pumped-up crowd as he delivered a barnstorming performance on his debut in the competition and issued three standing counts across three rounds in a dominant victory over Kosovo’s Shpetim Bajoku.

Speaking in the mixed zone after his bout, Kamara said: “I did not expect that [atmosphere]. I knew I was going to have loads of people there, but that was crazy. And they all showed so much love. Every two seconds I just heard “Odel! Odel!” and it made me just want to throw a haymaker. But I kept it calm and relaxed and I did my job.”

Tomorrow sees 64 bouts take place across the afternoon (11:00 GMT) and evening sessions (18:00 GMT).

RESULTS:

All of today’s results are available at: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

INFORMATION:

The daily schedule, official draw and all results and additional information can be found on the event’s official website: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/competition-documents. 

WATCH:

The World Boxing Championships 2025 is being livestreamed on World Boxing’s website via Eurovision Sport (available in selected territories) at https://worldboxing.org/watch-the-world-boxing-championships/.

LIVE SCORING:

Fans can stay up to date with all of the action in every session of boxing with live scoring at https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/live-schedule-results

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