MANILA, Philippines — Filipino boxing expertise Mark Ashley Fajardo continued to indicate he has what it takes to turn out to be huge sometime after he overwhelmed Ukrainian Nikita Pohozhyi, 4-1, Tuesday to barge into the semifinals of the Thailand Open in Bangkok.
The 20-year-old 2024 ASBC Elite Males and Ladies Championships bronze winner was spectacular in his destruction of Pohozhyi to make sure himself of not less than a podium end within the males’s 65-kilogram class.
He’ll face Thai Pidnuch Khunatip, who pulled the rug from below Uzbek Sayat Ilyasov, 5-0, within the semis scheduled Thursday night time.
Fajardo additionally joined countryman Riza Pasuit within the semis the place the latter tackles Kazakh Viktoriya Grafeyeva within the girls’s 60kg class.
The 2 had been the nation’s final hopes to strike gold within the weeklong occasion that’s being utilized by the Philippine staff as a part of its preparation for the Southeast Asian Video games in Thailand this December.
“That is our first staff,” mentioned Affiliation of Boxing Alliances of the Philippines secretary-general Marcus Manalo.