Dingko Singh: Indian boxing’s original star fades away
Hindustan TimesVijender Singh vividly remembers that evening in 1998, when, as a boy in his early teens taking baby steps in boxing, he sat wide-eyed in front of a black-and-white TV in his home in Bhiwani, Haryana, and watched the bantamweight final of the Asian Games in Bangkok. Two months ago, Suranjoy, now Indian Navy’s chief boxing coach, was part of a team of coaches that took permission and travelled from Mumbai to Imphal to visit the ailing Dingko at his home. “He was very passionate,” Gurbax Singh Sandhu, the long-time national boxing coach who was at the helm during the 1998 Asian Games, said. L Ibomcha Singh, the Dronacharya boxing coach from Manipur, was one of the first to get a whiff of Dingko’s feistiness. “His left hook-right cross combination would floor the best boxers,” said the Mumbai-based Jay Kowli, a boxing referee and currently the executive council member of Asian Boxing Federation.
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