{"id":309504,"date":"2025-11-26T08:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309504\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:08:15","slug":"taghi-nasibov-reaches-semifinals-of-european-u23-boxing-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309504\/","title":{"rendered":"Taghi Nasibov reaches semifinals of European U23 Boxing Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/laman.jpg\" alt=\"Laman Ismayilova\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani boxer Taghi Nasibov has reached the semifinals of<br \/>\nthe European U23 Boxing Championships held in Budapest, Hungary,<br \/>\nAzernews reports.<\/p>\n<p>The national team member, competing in the 60 kg weight<br \/>\ncategory, defeated Gavin Ryan from Ireland in the<br \/>\nquarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Nasibov won the match with a score of 3:2 (28:29, 27:30, 30:27,<br \/>\n30:27, 30:27). By advancing to the semifinals, N\u0259sibov has secured<br \/>\nat least a bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Three more Azerbaijani boxers will compete in their quarterfinal<br \/>\nmatches on November 26.<\/p>\n<p>On November 28, Taghi Nasibov will face Bulgarian Radoslav<br \/>\nRosenov in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing is known as one of the oldest known sports in the history<br \/>\nof humankind.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest evidence of boxing dates back to Egypt around 3,000<br \/>\nBC.<\/p>\n<p>This sport was introduced to the ancient Olympic Games by the<br \/>\nGreeks in the late 7th century BC.<\/p>\n<p>In 1924, the International Amateur Boxing Federation (FIBA) was<br \/>\nestablished.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1946, it has been referred to as the International Boxing<br \/>\nAssociation (AIBA). Boxing made its Olympic debut at the 1904 Games<br \/>\nin St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>In 1926, the boxing championship was held for the first time in<br \/>\nAzerbaijan, where national boxers took first place.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1992, the Azerbaijani Boxing Federation has become a full<br \/>\nmember of the International Boxing Association (AIBA).<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani boxers have won many prestigious awards at many<br \/>\ninternational championships.<\/p>\n<p>Aghasi Mammadov has entered Azerbaijan&#8217;s history of boxing as<br \/>\nthe first national boxer, as a gold medallist at the world<br \/>\nchampionship.<\/p>\n<p>Another Azerbaijani boxer, Fuad Asadov, was among the medallists<br \/>\nat the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Many times, Azerbaijan has been chosen as the host country for<br \/>\nmajor boxing championships.<\/p>\n<p>The AIBA Youth World Championships were held in Baku in 2019.<br \/>\nThis world championship was the first licensed youth tournament to<br \/>\nqualify for the 2010 Olympic Games held in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The country also hosted the 2011 AIBA World Boxing<br \/>\nChampionships, which was the first major qualifying event for the<br \/>\nLondon 2012 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani boxer Taghi Nasibov has reached the semifinals of the European U23 Boxing Championships held in Budapest, Hungary,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[9872,64,63,961,9874,9870,802,1348,174,1048,164,9873,9871,84,9869,85,940,1346],"class_list":["post-309504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-analytics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-azerbaijan","tag-azernews","tag-baku","tag-boxing","tag-breaking-news","tag-business-news","tag-company-news","tag-economy","tag-financial-news","tag-oil-and-gas-news","tag-politics","tag-socar","tag-sports","tag-turkey","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}