Neeraj Goyat (born 11 November 1991) is an Indian professional

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. He won the title of "India's most promising boxer" in 2008. He is also the first professional boxer who played three fights of twelve rounds and won it. The first Indian boxer to have made it to WBC World Rankings (Ranked 20). Also he won award of WBC Asia "Honorary Boxer of the year" in 2017. He became the only Indian boxer who's face can be seen on the WBC belt and because of him, first time Indian Flag can be seen on a WBC belt. He become first Indian who defeated china's boxer

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in China itself in the year 2014, who is

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world champion. Neeraj was in a car accident in 2019, but has recovered and competed since.

Early life

Goyat was born in begumpur village in

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. Neeraj Goyat did his Schooling till 9th standard from SD model school, Haryana. He Started boxing in 2006 in the Army sports institute and studied for 10th standard there. In the first junior national tournament held in 2007, he won the bronze medal. In the year 2008, Neeraj Goyat won the gold medal in the Youth National Tournament. Neeraj got interested in boxing because the physique and the personality of sportsmen really appealed to him. He started with Athletics, but then when he saw boxers training around him he saw them and was really impressed with their level of fitness and strength and that's how he shifted to boxing. Since Neeraj had a very good level of fitness, he got selected in the Army sports institute in the year 2006, got very good training from the coaches there and learnt a lot from the senior boxers in the institute. He aims at becoming the WBC World Champion and follow the footsteps of his favorite boxer

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who is also a former WBC World Champion.

Career

Neeraj Goyat is the first Indian professional Boxer who went to

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for the Olympic qualifiers before

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and won bronze medal. He won the Award of WBC Asia ‘Honorary Boxer of the year’ 2017.

Performance in pro boxing

* 3 times WBC Asia title holder. * WBC Asian Champion 2015 * WBC Asian Champion 2016 * WBC Asian Champion 2017 Total number of Pro fights – 22 *Won – 17 (7 knockouts) *Draw – 2 *Lost – 3

Performance in amateur boxing

International level achievements * Olympic qualifiers tournament 2016 Venezuela – bronze medal * Youth commonwealth games 2008 – bronze medal * Youth world championship 2008 Mexico – participation * President cup Indonesia 2011 – participation * World military games 2011 Brazil – participation National level achievements * Junior national 2007 – bronze * Youth National 2008 – gold * All India super cup 2010 – silver * All India AK Mishra 2010 – gold * National games 2011 – silver * Senior national 2012 – silver

Film and Television Career

Television Show on Boxing participated by Neeraj Goyat

* SFL Challengers - Telecasted in August 2012 on Zoom (TV channel). *

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. * Captain of the team Haryana Warriors in

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Season 1 - Telecasted on

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from 7 July to 12 August 2017.

Film career

* Neeraj Goyat made his Bollywood debut with

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’s film

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along with Deepak Tanwar. *

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. *Neeraj goyat can be seen playing role of a boxer in

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movie with

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which is directed by

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. *Neeraj worked in

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with

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. *Neeraj worked in

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with

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References

External links

* *https://boxranking.com/boxer/view/258175 {{DEFAULTSORT:Goyat, Neeraj 1991 births Living people Indian male boxers Welterweight boxers