ISHAISH GETS BYE TO SECOND ROUND

 Fifth seed Hussein Ishaish has received a bye to round two of the Super Heavyweight Division at the 19th AIBA World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, Germany.

The Olympic quarter-finalist will meet the winner of India’s Kumar Satish, who won bronze at the 2014 Asian Games, and Azerbaijan’s 2011 and 2013 World Champion Mohammad Rasul.

Meanwhile, his younger brother Ziad will face Australia’s Hunt Andor in the first round of the 69kg weight.