{"id":53053,"date":"2019-01-20T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=53053"},"modified":"2019-01-20T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:17:42","slug":"vikas-krishan-off-to-a-winning-start-in-professional-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/vikas-krishan-off-to-a-winning-start-in-professional-boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikas Krishan off to a winning start in professional boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Indian boxer Vikas Krishan was off to a winning start in the professional circuit, notching up a Technical Knockout against American Steven Andrade in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vikas, who has signed up with the legendary Bob Arum&#8217;s Top Rank Promotions, made his debut in what was to be a six-round superwelterweight contest. The fight was the under-card of Olympic silver-medallist Shakur Stevenson&#8217;s IBF Intercontinental and WBC Continental Americas featherweight title contest against Jessie Cris Rosales.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson knocked out his opponent. &#8220;Won my pro debut fight by TKO. Thank you all for your love and support,&#8221; Vikas tweeted after the bout. Andrade came into the contest with an experience of six fights on the circuit with a 3-3 record. This was his fourth successive loss, the last being in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Vikas is one of India&#8217;s most decorated boxers and has won gold medals at the Asian and Commonwealth Games. He is also a world championships bronze-medallist and a multiple-time Asian championships medallist. Vikas prepared for his pro debut under the aegis of Stevenson&#8217;s grandfather Wali Moses.<\/p>\n<p>Vijender Singh, India&#8217;s first and only Olympic medallist in boxing, has also signed up with Top Rank Promotions after an undefeated professional run in England and India.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian boxer Vikas Krishan was off to a winning start in the professional circuit, notching up a Technical Knockout against American Steven Andrade in New York. Vikas, who has signed up with the legendary Bob Arum&#8217;s Top Rank Promotions, made his debut in what was to be a six-round superwelterweight contest. The fight was the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53055,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53053\/revisions\/53055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}