Vijender Singh will start his career on the huge double
world title card headlined by Terry Flanagan’s defence of his WBO World
Lightweight title against Diego Magdaleno and Liam Smith facing John Thompson
for the WBO World Super-Welterweight Championship, live and exclusive in the UK on TV
channel BoxNation.
The 2008 Beijing
Olympics Bronze Medallist begins his career in the hotly contested middleweight
division and will do a four times three minute round bout as he makes the
transition from amateur to professional codes.
Vijender Singh, 29, has taken himself away from his home in
Bhiwani, a state in Haryana, and based himself in Manchester to train for this fight under
renown coach Lee Beard and has been training alongside stable mates Jack
Catterall, Adrian Gonzalez and Jimmy Kelly, who all feature in championship
title action on the show.
Despite being India’s most successful amateur boxer in
history and winning a multitude of titles, including Silver at the 2006 and
2014 Commonwealth Games; Bronze at the 2006 Asian Games, 2009 World Amateur
Championships and 2010 Commonwealth Games; Gold at the 2010 Asian Games, and
rated the world’s number one middleweight in 2009, Singh knows that he has to
start again in the pros as he looks to make history and become his nation’s
first ever pro world champion boxer.
“It is getting very close now to my professional debut now
and I can’t wait for it,” Said Vijender Singh.
“I have trained very hard and diligently for this fight in Manchester with Lee Beard
who has been important in refining my style from the amateur way of fighting
into the professional sport which is totally different,”
“It is like I’m starting my boxing career all over
again. Even though I accomplished so much as an amateur boxer, to begin
my professional career I’ve had to start all over again with my training to
prepare for my pro debut and it has been a very exciting time,”
“There has been a lot of changes and a lot of things we have
been working on like the technical aspect of boxing, changing my diet and
training schedule, the physical and mental preparation, it has all been
important and I believe that I’m ready to fight,”
“I know that my opponent Sonny Whiting will not be an easy
first fight. He has already had three fights so he’ll be prepared and I
hear that he wants to defeat me in my first pro fight. He won’t beat me,
I’m so focused and determined on what I have to do.”
His opponent Sonny Whiting, from Rochester in Kent, England,
has a record of two wins from three fights with one knockout in the
professional ranks is not impressed with Singh’s fame and has promised to cause
a huge upset and defeat the Indian star.
Whiting, who trains under the world famous East London boxing figure Johnny Greaves, said, “I
don’t care who is in front of me on the night, they’re going to get beat, plain
and simple,”
“I hear that Singh is a massive superstar in India , well
I’ll be looking to send a brutal message back to his home when I beat him,”
“He’s entering the world of the professionals now and it’s
going to be hard for him, he might of done plenty in the amateurs but that will
count for nothing now. I’ll make sure I give him a good welcome.”
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