BOXERS BREAK THROUGH IN BANGKOK

Three more Jordanians have advanced to the quarter-finals of the Asian Boxing Championships taking place in Bangkok, Thailand.

Ziad Ishaish, Mohammed Younis and Ahmad Al-Matbouli all won their fights on Sunday to reach the last eight, following on from some excellent earlier performances from their teammates.

Ishaish, who won the 2018 Asian Games bronze, beat Chinese Taipei’s University World Champion, Pan Hung-Ming, with a unanimous decision in the -69kg weight to face Japan’s Sewan Okazawa next on Tuesday.

Younis beat his opponent Faizullah Aryubi, of Afghanistan, in the Light Heavyweight (-81kg) competition, again receiving the verdict from all five judges to face Kyrgyzstan’s Erkin Adylbek in the quarter-finals.

Ahmad Al-Matbouli made it a memorable day for Jordan with victory in the -60kg division following another dominant display to beat Afghanistan’s Ali Reza Ahmadi.

He will fight Mongolia’s Tsendbataar Erdenebat, the 2018 Asian Games champion, next. Unfortunately, Mohamed Gharaghir couldn’t make it a clean sweep of wins as he narrowly lost his Flyweight (-52kg) contest to North Korea’s Utah Baum.

The trio of victors join countrymen Obada Al Kissbeh (-64kg), Hussein Ishaish (-91kg) and Oday Hindawi (+91kg) in the quarter-finals.