Greater Noida: Tokyo Olympian Ashish Chaudhary\u2019s disqualification for a headbutt has sparked a refereeing controversy at the Elite National Boxing Championships here.<\/p>\n
The 2019 Asian Championships medallist and his state unit Himachal Pradesh Boxing Association launched a strong protest after his disqualification for \u2018intentional headbutt\u2019 against Haryana\u2019s Rupesh in an 80kg bout on Monday night.<\/p>\n
The bout was barely into the second minute when close action saw the boxers clash heads, leaving the Haryana boxer bleeding from the nose. The referee stopped the bout, gave a standing count to Rupesh and called for medical attention. The doctor suggested that the injured boxer cannot fight any further.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile Rupesh was being attended to by the doctor, the referee signalled \u2018unintentional blow\u2019 but later changed his decision on the instruction of the Deputy Technical Delegate and disqualified me. This is so unfair,\u201d said Chaudhary, who left the hall protesting against his ouster.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe deputy TD (Narendra Kumar Nirwan) gave instructions to the referee to disqualify, which is against the competition rules of World Boxing. In such cases, once the referee has given his decision, the bout is settled on points as per rules. We request you to reconduct the bout,\u201d HPBA manager Vinod Kumar said in his letter to the BFI\u2019s technical delegate.<\/p>\n
BFI executive director Arun Malik said the technical delegate held an inquiry and took the referee\u2019s statement. \u201cHe was not given duty for the day as the enquiry proceedings were taking place. As per the technical delegate, the referee has followed the rules of World Boxing. He has now been put back on duty,\u201d said Malik.<\/p>\n
Chaudhary, one of India\u2019s best in the middleweight, argued that it could be clearly made out from the video what happened. \u201cWhy are they doing this to me? This is unfair. Why have they taken out the video of my bout from streaming?\u201d<\/p>\n
When HT spoke to some BFI technical officials, they raised questions on the decision and the way it was handled. \u201cNirwan is not even a National Technical Official and he was officiating as a Dy TD. A deputy TD cannot overrule the decision of the referee in the ring because he is closer to the boxer,\u201d said a technical expert who has also conducted international competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Noida: Tokyo Olympian Ashish Chaudhary\u2019s disqualification for a headbutt has sparked a refereeing controversy at the Elite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[211178,64,63,802,211177,211180,211181,85,211179],"class_list":["post-395848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ashish-chaudhary","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-nationals","tag-elite-national-boxing-championships","tag-intentional-headbutt","tag-sports","tag-tokyo-olympian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395848","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=395848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}