EBasque boxer Oier Ibarretxe qualified for the round of 16 of the Bangkok Pre-Olympics (Thailand) in the 60.5 kilo category, in which five places are distributed, by clearly defeating to the Iranian Ali Habibinezhadwhile the Elche native Sergio Martínez was eliminated at -71 kg by the Puerto Rican Ángel Gabriel Llanos. In the female category, Marta López del Arbol She lost another 5-0 against the Danish Melissa Mortensen in the less than -54 kilo category.
Ibarretxe defeated the Iranian boxer in a fight in which he knew how to set the times in the first round and landed winning blows in the second. In the third and final round he preferred not to risk and think about the next round, reported the Royal Spanish Boxing Federation (RFEB).
Such was the clarity of the Biscayan’s victory that the judges, unanimously, gave him the victory 5-0. Oier Ibarretxe thus achieved his second victory in the competitionafter in his debut he beat the Israeli Ahmad Shtiwi by a 3-2 split decision in a more even fight than the one this day in Bangkok.
On the other hand, his teammate Sergio Martínez, weighing less than 71 kilos, fell in the round of 32 after being defeated by a resounding 5-0 by the Puerto Rican Ángel Gabriel Llanos, who already in the previous round beat the Moroccan with authority. Yassine Elouarz 4-1.
The man from Elche accused his rival of a left hand in the first seconds of the fight and was always in tow of Llanos, a boxer who combined technical movements with his speed when hitting winning blows. Martínez, in his debut, had comfortably defeated Áaron Prince Solomon, representative of Trinidad and Tobago
