imane khelif vs angela carini full fight video

In just 46 seconds, Imane Khelif and Angela Carini exchanged swift punches in the Paris ring, but it was enough to convince Carini that her Olympic journey was over.

The Italian boxer unexpectedly walked away from her Algerian opponent and headed to her corner on Thursday, abandoning the bout—a highly unusual event in Olympic boxing.

Carini didn’t shake Khelif’s hand after the referee declared Khelif the winner. Instead, she fell to her knees in the ring and cried. Later, still in tears, Carini explained that she quit due to the pain from those initial punches.

“I felt a severe pain in my nose, and with the maturity of a boxer, I said ‘enough,’ because I didn’t want to, I couldn’t finish the match,” Carini said.

Khelif, who was disqualified from the 2023 world championships after failing an unspecified gender eligibility test, has sparked controversy with her participation in the Paris Olympics.