Before ASIAD 19, both Pang Chol Mi (North Korea) and Chang Yuan (China) were surprised when changing the weight registration class. They were originally 51kg of women, then moved down to 50kg. But in Asia this time, both of them moved to the 54kg women's weight competition.
On the journey to the final, both Pang Chol Mi and Chang Yuan had impressive victories. The North Korea fighter is the one who defeated the representative of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tran in the quarterfinals. They also showed a very high performance when entering the heroic battle this time.
With the advantage of playing at home, Chang Yuan took the initiative to enter with straight and strong hooks towards Pang Chol Mi. North Korea fighters proved no less in the ability to dodge and counterattack. The balance posture was shown on the final score when the two Pang victory assessments, and 3 people Chang Yuan won.
Entering the second half, Pang Chol Mi became the one who actively attacked more. She continuously made Chang Yuan struggled to support her very heavy attacks. However, unexpectedly appeared on the transcript when assessing No. 5 Mats Peter Olander (Sweden) became the only person Chang Yuan Thang.
The victory in the second half of Pang brought the match back to the balance when she was won by 2 evaluation, 2 draws, 1 loss. The winner in the last half will become the champion. However, Set 3 took place in an unbelievable scenario. Both boxers were warned by the referee to eliminate points due to their heads, hugging the opponent.
Despite being warned once, Pang still showed that she was a better competition with many hit hit aimed at Chang Yuan. In this match, 4/5 assessment of Pang Thang mark. In turn, the number 1 assessment of Radoslav Simon (Slovakia) was controversial when he was the only one to score Chang Yuan.
In the end after 3 rounds, Pang Chol Mi won 3-2 against Chang Yuan (27-28, 29-26, 29-26, 28-27, 27-28). This result helped her first become the Asian Championship, and had tickets directly to the Paris Olympic Games 2024. Chang Yuan also had tickets to the Olympics, because this weight class took 4 athletes to the Olympic Games.
For Pang Cho Mi and the North Korea boxing team, this victory was their impressive response to the loss 5 years ago. At the final of Boxing Asiad 18 (2018) in Indonesia, Pang Chol Mi and Chang Yuan also met at 51kg weight class. Many experts said that Pang was the winner after 3 rounds, but Chang Yuan was the one who was won by the final.
Frustrated by the results of the inspection, the Delegation of the DPRK conducted a complaint, requesting to re -mark the results of the match. That year, the Organizing Committee could not reverse the results to recognize the victory for Pang Chol Mi. But the incident at the ASIAD 18 Final is the premise for the world amateur boxing to allow the delegations to complain and ask the Organizing Committee to investigate and re -mark the match results.