Vanuatu's Boe Lionel Worawora wins World Amateur Boxing Championship

Vanuatu’s number 1 bantamweight champion, Boe Lionel Warawara, is reported to have made it to the second leg of the preliminary stage after knocking out Turkmenistan’s Meredov Yakub in the third round of the World Amateur Boxing Championship in Doha.

This news was announced by the Vanuatu Boxing Association (VABA) minutes after the very powerful Turkmenistan was beaten  and ruled out of the match by the referee.

VABA officials confirmed that in their three round bouts, the TKM bantamweight champion and the Vanuatu kid shared the two first rounds but in the third round, Lionel stopped Meredov by technical knockout.

Lionel will now take on Qatar’s Erseker Hakan in the second preliminary bout No. 97 – a match that will determine the quarter finalists of the bantamweight division in the World Boxing Amateur Championship in Doha.  Source: Loopvanuatu