World Wrestling Championships 2022: Ravi Kumar Dahiya makes early exit after one-sided loss to Gulomjon Abdullaev

India’s star wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya made an early exit from the World Wrestling Championships 2022 in Belgrade on Friday as the 24-year-old Olympic silver medallist lost to Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev.

The 57kg category match, a pre-quarterfinal encounter, was expected to be tricky as World No. 30 Abdullaev has defeated the Indian multiple times in the past. However, the World No. 2 Indian lost by technical superiority (10-0) to the Uzbek in what appeared to be a meek surrender. The defeat came right after Ravi had a strong to his campaign as he comfortably defeated Romania’s Razwan Kovacs by technical superiority.

For Abdullaev, the win over Ravi was a sort of revenge as the Indian defeated the 23-year-old Uzbek in the previous encounter in UWW Ranking Series event (Yasar Dogu 2022) in Istanbul in February.

Abdullaev lost his quarter-final bout to Albania’s World No. 26 Zelimkhan Abakarov, who won the match by technical superiority (13-2) to book his semifinal spot.

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