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You made Chinese Hakka Bakka: Virender Sehwag hails Vijender Singh’s win over Zulpikar Maimaitiali

Zulpikar gave Vijender a fight but the Indian triumphed.

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The legend of Vijender Singh continued to grow as the Indian boxing star outslugged his Chinese opponent Zulpikar Maimaitiali in a close bout to annex the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title.

It was double delight for the fans as Vijender also snatched the WBO Oriental Super Middleweight title from the Chinese, who is nine years younger to him.

It was the 32-year-old Beijing Olympic bronze medallist's ninth successive win in his professional career.

As usual, former swashbuckling batsman and social media ninja Virender Sehwag was at hand to give his unique take.

 Sehwag congratulated Vijender in his quintessential style stating that he ate ‘hakka noodles’ while watching his fight. He wrote: “Tough match this,but congrats @boxervijender .Enjoyed Hakka Noodles while watching ur fight & you made Chinese Hakka Bakka. #BattleGroundAsia”

 

In front of a partisan crowd, Vijender gave an exhibition of his class during the slugfest, and his oodles of experience came in handy during 10 intense rounds.

While Vijender had commented that 'Chinese products don't last long' but Zulpikar managed to squeeze every ounce of his opponent's energy.

"I didn't expect him to fight so well and last the distance," Vijender said after the bout.

Using his height and greater reach to good effect, Vijender most of the time had the better of exchanges with his straigt ones and hooks landing flush on Zulpikar, whose blows didn't have the desired effect.

The Chinese southpaw had his guard up most of the times and with a crouched stance, was relying mostly on the uppercuts.

However, he was guilty of trying to hit Vijender below the belt with as many as five low blows for which he was promptly warned by the referee.

The only round when Zulpikar looked a bit assertive was the third one when he tried to chase the Indian, who again showed his fleet-footedness to evade his punches on more than one occasions.

With inputs from PTI 

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