Mirko Šarčević from Bjelopolska continued his low number of medals at the European boxing championships. He just secured a place in the semi-finals and a medal, but how great he is will be known after the next matches of the Montenegrin representative in the category up to 80 kilograms.
At the European Youth Boxing Championship in Yerevan, Šarčević won 4:1 against the German boxer Streven Učena in the quarterfinals.
It was a tough match, although Šarčević won the first round from everyone except the referee from Poland, and in the second, after 75 seconds of the fight, the White Pole landed a formidable left hook, but also inexperiencedly stopped waiting for the ring referee to count.
That didn't happen, the German managed to come back and win the round with all five judges.
However, in the third, Šarčević proved to the judges that he is an incomparably better boxer, the German mostly tended to clinch and avoid the fight, so the Bjelopoljan won the third round on all five scorecards.
Our boxer's rival in the semi-finals on Monday will be the Russian Ramazan Magomedkanov, who won the quarter-final fight against Samvel Kazarian from Georgia 4:1.
In the first fight in Yerevan, Šarčević eliminated Luigi Shalov from Croatia.
Last year, Šarčević won a bronze medal at the European Youth Championship in Sofia, in the category up to 71 kilograms.
In his career, he also has a silver medal, a year earlier, from the Junior European Championship in Georgia, when in the final, with an unfair decision, the referee lost a match in which he was incomparably better than a boxer from Russia.
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