Upon winning the men’s 63.5 kg quarter finals against South Korea’s Minsu Choi, Indian boxer Shiva Thapa secured atleast a bronze medal at the Asian Boxing championship 2022. The boxer already holds silver medals for the same in 2017 and 2021, while bronze in 2015 and 2019, will now be the first male boxer in the history of the continental front to having accomplished a sixth medal at the Asian Championships. He is standing against Bakhodur Usmonov of Tajikistan in the semi-final now.