Sporting stars, Bollywood, politicians to support Vijender Singh

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An August gathering of sporting legends, politicians and Bollywood celebrities will be in full attendance when star boxer Vijender Singh takes on Australia’s Kerry Hope in the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight Championship title at the Thyagaraj stadium here on Saturday.

Kapil Dev, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Gautam Gambhir will be in attendance from the cricketing world. Besides country’s star woman boxer Mary Kom and double Olympic medalist wrestler Sushil Kumar will also witness the fight.

Singh has lived up to a very successful run in the amateur boxing circuit and has been unbeaten in the six fights that he has competed after turning professional in 2015.

[source;indianexpress]