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    Emil Lazarian
  • 7 years ago
    • Categories: 2019

Sports: World Boxing Championship: Hovhannes Bachkov reaches semifinals

Panorama, Armenia
Sept 18 2019
Sport 17:31 18/09/2019 Armenia

Armenian boxer Hovhannes Bachkov competing in the 63 weight category has qualified for the semifinals at the World Boxing Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia. As the National Olympic Committee reported, the acting European champion defeated De Los Santos of the Dominican Republic 5:0.

Another representative of Armenia Hovhannes Bachkov competing in the 63 weight category won the bout against the representative of Columbia and qualified for quarterfinals.

Other representatives of Armenia Artur Hovhannisyan (52 kg) and Arman Darchinyan (75kg) suffered defeats from Kazakh boxers at the quarterfinals and dropped out the competition. 

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS