Sports: Armenia’s Vahe Badalyan advances to 1/8 final of World Boxing Championships

Emil Lazarian 2021
Panorama, Armenia
Oct 29 2021

SPORT 18:57 29/10/2021 ARMENIA

Armenian boxer Vahe Badalyan (54 kg) has reached the 1/8 final of the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships being held in Belgrade, Serbia from October 24 to November 6.

The Armenian boxer defeated his Taipei rival Li-Yu Hung 5-0 in the 1/16 final, the Boxing Federation of Armenia reported on Friday.

He will next face Kirgiz Sanzhai Seidekmatov.

Two other Armenian boxers – Karen Tonakanyan and Arman Darchinyan – will start competing tonight.

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