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“Every sportsman has the right to have the same respect. I have lot of respect for all those Paralympics medals winners who have shown their great performance and made us all proud by becoming Olympic Champion” - SHIVA THAPA
Shiva Thapa, an Indian boxer from Guwahati, Assam. He was the youngest Indian boxer to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics. He is ranked 3rd in the bantamweight category in the AIBA Men’s World Ranking. He is the third Indian to clinch Gold at the Asian Games. He was also qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympic in the Men’s 56 Kg event, but failed to move beyond the first round. In an interview with Nisha Sethia of Eastern Panorama, Thapa outlines his journey so far….Excerpts
Why is aggression so important for a boxer?
It is very important as nowadays fight is all about impression and aggression. Judges get easily impressed with the kind of aggression you have. According to the new scoring system,
the boxer whose punches and blows is more powerful, more aggressive, throwing maximum number of punches and is looking active throughout the fight is preferably winning the round and the bouts. Before the London Olympics if you hit one left and one right and it gets land you get one point for one punch but the scoring pattern has been changed now, it is like the professional boxing system. The scoring system according to judges is one who wins gets 10 points and one who loses gets 9 points. It depends if the boxer is losing in big margin he might get 8 or 7 points. Now there is no more scoring for punches, now the whole boxing is about impression, aggression and more landing of punches.
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