The first Indian boxer to be a part of super heavyweightcategory (91 kg+), Satish Kumar has now qualified for the 1st quarterfinal round after defeating Jamaica’s Ricardo Brown in his opening bout today.He faced a comfortable win with 4-1.
In the match, Brown had poor footwork, and the 32year-old boxer got a cut on his forehead. For the first round of thequarterfinals, Satish is playing against Bakhodir Jalolov, who is a player fromUzbekistan. Jalolov had punched out Mahammad Abdullayev and won the match by5-0.
Satish Kumar was born to a farmer and he had a dream to join theIndian army just like his father and brothers and his mission as a teenager was to servethe country. He had joined the army as a Sepoy in 2008 and shifted to Ranikhet. Hisextraordinary height was the reason him being noticed during a boxing championship and was urged to give a shot.
As a matter of astonishment, he didn’t even know whatboxing was all about; he used to think that WWE was boxing citing that he hadheard about John Cena and the Undertaker. Since 1996, he is the first to qualifyin the Olympics super heavyweight category. He has also won a silver medal in2018 Commonwealth Games.
Satish has also been awarded the Arjuna Award in2018 by the Indian Government.
Talking of Brown, heis 31 years old and is the co-founder of ‘Sensi Juice’, which is basically anorganic juice Canadian-based company. The juices made under his company containCannabis. Brown has also worked as a chef till 2014 in Jamaica.