{"id":8965,"date":"2023-03-23T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammukashmirlinks.com\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2023-03-23T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:30:34","slug":"nikhat-nitu-cruise-into-final-of-world-boxing-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/?p=8965","title":{"rendered":"Nikhat, Nitu Cruise Into Final Of World Boxing Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikhat Zareen (50kg) and Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) advanced to the final of the Women\u2019s World Boxing Championships with stellar semifinal wins here on Thursday.<br \/>\nWhile Nikhat out-punched Rio Olympics bronze medallist Ingrit Valencia of Colombia 5-0, Nitu eked out a 5-2 victory over Alua Balkibekova of Kazakhstan.<br \/>\nReigning champion Nikhat used her speed and tactical acumen to see off Valencia and continue the defence of her title.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8967\" src=\"https:\/\/jammukashmirlinks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_855-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_855-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_855-489x420.jpg 489w, https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_855.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the rematch of last year\u2019s quarterfinals, Nitu and Balkibekova went all guns blazing in the first round. However, the Kazakh was more dominant and took the round 2-3.<br \/>\nIn the second round, Nitu came out strongly, landing hooks and jabs.<br \/>\nBoth boxers resorted to body blows and clinching with Nitu ending on top.<br \/>\nThe final three minutes were a tense affair with Nitu getting the better of Balkibekova, forcing a bout review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikhat Zareen (50kg) and Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) advanced to the final of the Women\u2019s World Boxing Championships with stellar semifinal wins here on Thursday. While Nikhat out-punched Rio Olympics bronze medallist Ingrit Valencia of Colombia 5-0, Nitu eked out a 5-2 victory over Alua Balkibekova of Kazakhstan. Reigning champion Nikhat used her speed and tactical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8968,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions\/8968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}