{"id":220,"date":"2011-10-12T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=220"},"modified":"2011-10-12T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:02:21","slug":"wsb-mumbai-fighters-rope-in-world-champions-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"WSB: Mumbai fighters rope in World Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Baku: <\/strong>Mumbai Fighters delivered their first punch in some   style at the World Series of Boxing (WSB) Draft held at Baku. The India   Boxing Team picked up an exciting and formidable line-up, which  includes  a World No. 1, Youth Olympics champion and 2010 Commonwealth  Games gold  medallist to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Current World No. 1 middleweight boxer Abbos Atoev of   Uzbekistan, 2010 Youth Olympics gold medallist Damian Hooper and   Commonwealth Games welterweight gold medallist Patrick Gallagher of   Ireland were picked in the first three rounds of WSB draft held on   Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Irish man Gallagher, 22, was a welterweight   gold-medallist at the Delhi CWG last year. Atoev, Hooper and Callagher   would fill up the middleweight category for Mumbai Fighters in the   2011-12 season of WSB.<\/p>\n<p>For the light heavyweight category,   Fighters didn\u2019t settle for anything less. Uzbek Sardor Begaliyev, 19,   was picked in the fourth round of the Draft. Begaliyev won the silver at   the 2010 World Youth Championships in 81kg category.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai   Fighters continued their quest to form a world-beating side by picking   current light welterweight European champion Raymond Moylette, 21, from   Ireland for WSB lightweight category.<\/p>\n<p>Team Principal and owner   Udit Sheth expressed his satisfaction with the line-up and thanked   Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) for their timely inputs. \u201cWe are   very happy with our selection from the draft. We got the 1st pick, and   with the expertise of our Technical Director and IABF team we selected   the best. Atoev, Callagher, Hooper, Begaliyev and Moylette are all   excellent fighters with strong records to their name. Now the boys will   assemble at camp shortly and will come together to Fight for India. The   India Boxing Team looks strong and its performance will speak for  itself  starting 11.11.11.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the above the team has  also  taken Trent Rawlins and Paul Koon into the draft for the heavy  weight  category. Both boxers have a formidable record in WSB and will  bring  their experience to guide the new stars.<\/p>\n<p>The Fighters  will have a  total squad of 20 boxers out of which the seven foreign  champions have  been selected. The final 13 Indian boxers will be closed  by team Head  Coach and Technical Director in the next fortnight. These  will mainly  comprise of boxers in the lightweight and bantam weight  category.<\/p>\n<p>The  boxers drafted by Mumbai Fighters: Abbos Atoyev  (UZB &#8211; Middleweight  73kg), Damian Hooper (AUS &#8211; Middleweight 73kg), &#8211;  Patrick Gallagher (IRL  &#8211; Middleweight 73kg), Sardor Begaliyev (UZB &#8211;  Light Heavyweight 85kg),  Raymond Moylette (IRL &#8211; Lightweight 61kg)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Baku: <\/strong>Mumbai Fighters delivered their first punch in some   style at the World Series of Boxing (WSB) Draft held at Baku. 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