Abbes Mouhiidine is already a sure medalist at the boxing world championships. Friday in the ring to enter the final

“I think I played an excellent match, but it’s only the beginning. I’m in the semifinals but aiming for the top step of the podium. I invite all of Italy to follow me on the 12th for the semifinals and on the 13th for the finals”. Abbes Mouhiidine shows confidence and is already making an appointment for the final of the amateur boxing world championships which are taking place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The heavyweight from Irpinia, silver at the Belgrade 2021 World Championships, entered the top four by beating the Tajik Davlat Boltaev on points with a unanimous verdict (5-0, all the judges gave it 30-27). the professionals. Mouhiidine played a match of personalities, saving energy for the next rounds: his mobility, objectively superior technique and the right shots delivered at the right time were enough to not have problems with the judges.

With today’s victory Mouhiidine won at least the bronze medal, which already means a prize of 50,000 dollars. Two hundred thousand and one hundred thousand are instead those foreseen for gold and silver. The Irpino native of Morocco will now face the Armenian Narek Manasyan in the semifinals, who beat the Cuban-born Spanish Enmanuel Reyes. In the other semifinal, the home boxer, the Uzbek Lazizbek Mullojonov who defeated the reigning world champion, the Cuban Julio Cesar La Cruz, and the Russian Muslim Gadzhimagomedov, world gold in 2019, will face each other.