Preeti Pawar (54kg) delivered one of the biggest upsets of the World Boxing Cup Finals 2025, defeating Tokyo Olympics medalist and three-time World Champion Huang Hsiao-Wen of Chinese Taipei to advance to the gold medal bout on Tuesday.

Preeti led the way as eight Indians, including Arundhati Choudhary, Minakshi Hooda, Abhinash Jamwal, Ankush Phangal, Nupur Sheoran, Narender Berwal, and Parveen, entered the finals at the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex.

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Preeti set the tone from the opening seconds, edging the first round with clean counterpunches before asserting clear dominance in the second. The 22-year-old refused to let the seasoned Huang build rhythm, cutting off angles and denying the former world champion any momentum. A flowing one-two combination late in

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