September 7, 2025 | 12:29pm
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ Riza Pasuit and Ronald Chavez Jr. pulled off contrasting outcomes to launch their respective campaigns with a bang within the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England Saturday (Sunday Manila time).
Pasuit overwhelmed Saudi Arabia’s Ragad Alnaimi through a second-round RSC (referee stopped contest) victory that catapulted the Southeast Asian Video games silver medalist straight to the round-of-16 of the ladies’s 60-kilogram class.
There, she’s going to battle Brazilian Rebeca Santos, who drew an opening-round bye, on Tuesday.
For the 26-year-old Chavez, whose father Ronald, Sr. and uncle Arlo have been Olympians, he had to attract power from a powerful begin to overcome a late, livid problem of Irishman Matthew McCole through a win on factors, 3-2.
It propelled Chavez to the round-of-16 of the boys’s 70kg class versus Frenchman Makan Traore, who smashed Chinese language Taipei’s Kan Chia-Wei, 5-0.
However it wasn’t all rainbows because the nation suffered its first casualty following Junmilardo Ogayre’s 5-0 defeat by the hands of Kazakhstan’s Biibars Zhexen within the males’s 60kg round-of-32.
Tokyo Olympics silver winner Carlo Paalam is attempting to advance additional as he tackles Dominican Republic’s Junior Alcantara within the males’s 55kg Sunday.
The 2-time Olympian from Cagayan de Oro was coming off a dominant unanimous win over Taiwanese Hsu Chiao Chun Friday.
Additionally combating for expensive life was Mark Ashley Fajardo, who was clashing with Ukrainian Elvin Aliiev within the males’s 65kg part.
