Services boxers dominate ring, enter finals

Chennai, July 12 (UNI) Pugilists from Services and their archrivals Railways dominated the ring en route to men's final of the SRM Federation Cup Boxing Championship here today.

As the contests became more intriguing with the boxers fighting hard till the last minute, rains played spoilsport and halted the proceedings.

While M Zawhly in Light fly weight and Komal Yadav (bantam) of Services won their respective semifinal bouts, Manwar Hussain of Railway entered the light fly weight final before Jharkhand's Inderkumar Singh derailed the Railway's party with an upset win over J Sandeep to enter the Bantam weight final.

It was a touch and go affair as Inder failed to land his punches.

But he was a transformed boxer in the final two rounds as he came up with two left upper cuts and a right jab to raise the tempo, and maintained it till the end for a 13-9 win.

He will meet favourite Komal Yadav of Services, who defeated S Gopi of Tamil Nadu 16-5 on points.

Earlier, Zawahly defeated Ravinder of Haryana 17-12 to meet Manwar Hussain of Railways in the light fly final. Manwar overcame a tenacious Rajesh before posting a narrow 18-17 win.

Results( Semi finals): Men: Light: Satpal Singh (del) lost to RAvinder Sani (rlys) 6-12; S Narendadev (Jhar) lost to A Naobameetei (SSCB) 17-20.

Middle: Gurudev Singh (SSCB) bt Sukhwinder Singh (Jhar) RSC OC; S Gurushanker (TN0 lost to Surender (Har) 4-20.

Light fly: Ravinder (Har) lost to M Zawhly (SSCB) 12-17; Rajesh (TN) lost to Manwar Hussain (rlys) 17-18.

Bantam: S Gopi (TN) lost to Komal Yadav (SSCB) 5-16; J Sandeep (Rlys) lost to Inderkumar Singh (Jhar) 9-13.

Feather:D Kannan (Jhar) bt Dalvir (chand) 16-13 UNI