Vijender Singh, the Indian boxer with a dislocated thumb said that it was his luck which, despite of being handicapped, helped him in pulling off the gold medal at Asian Games. Vijender, the world number one thrashed Abbos Atoev, the two-time world champion
from Uzbekistan, in the Games’ final.
Vividly revisiting the tense moments, the 25-year-old impressive boxer with a heavily bandaged hand said that a power-packed left hook had dislocated his thumb, rendering him literally to fight with one hand. Talking to the reporters he revealed that though
his hand was in terrible state even before the Asian Games, the event had left it broke at the worst possible times.
It was in the ending moment of the first round where, though the boxer successfully scored a point, but it cost him his left hand. Vijender immediately informed his coach that he was unable to move his hand. However, since by then he was leading the fight
with 2-0, he decided to give it a chance and let the things get going.
Throughout the second round, the Indian boxer remained unable to utilise his injured hand. He was just swaying it once in a while to scare the opponent, who, fortunately could not figure for how his rival had instantly lost half of his strength.
Describing the big moments, Vijender said, “When I took a 5-0 lead in the second round, I knew the bout was mine from here. I kept praying to almighty and I think that also helped. In the end, I guess I got lucky, God was with me.”
The emphatic puncher had to settle down for rather a much lower performance at the Commonwealth games event held back in October. However, the impressive performance of the boxer in the current games event has wiped off all the disappointments. Commenting
upon the affects of his depiction of lower level of performance in Delhi upon his overall performance, Vijender said,
“That loss completely shattered me. I had not felt so miserable in a long time. When I went to the Asiad, I was taking it one bout at a time. I think I peaked at the right time besides
China is lucky for me. My rise started in Beijing after all.”
Vijender declared the most difficult bout of his which he had against Chinese boxer Taipei whom he had taken quite lightly in the beginning but which proved to be nerve testing. The Boxer who basically belongs to Haryana also credited the Cuban coach BI
Fernandes for his success.
Commending his efforts in Vijender’s success, the boxer said that Fernandes had a sharp mind which always had sound advices from the sidelines. Since there was not much noise in Guangzhou, the gold medallist of the event said, he was better capable of hearing
the advices given by the coach.
After returning home, Vijender would take a month’s break to recover, and afterwards he would start preparing for the coming world championships and the Olympics qualifiers for 2012 London Games.
Eagerly looking forward to go back to home, the young lad said that he was desperate to go home and to eat his heart’s content as it was rather impossible to explain what he had to go through for maintaining the weight for tournaments.
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