Boxer Sarjubala Devi turns professional
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 28 2022:
Sarjubala Devi, a silver medallist at World Women's Boxing Championship 2014, has turned professional as she will make her pro debut in Dubai on February 26 .
Grassroot Management announced Sarjubala's first professional bout at a press conference held at Siroy Hotel, Imphal North AOC, on Friday.
The state boxer will make her pro debut in Dubai on February 26 .
The press conference was attended by Manipur's direc-tor general of police P Doungel as the chief guest.
Sarjubala Devi is an Indian woman boxer from Manipur and a silver medallist at the AIBA World Women's Box-ing Championship 2014 (Korea) and Youth World Boxing champion in 2011 (Turkey) .
She was adjudged as the best boxer at the Youth World Women Boxing Champion-ship 2011 .
Sarjubala has represented India in many international tournaments and won medals in almost all the tournaments she has competed in.
She was named best boxer in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2017 .
Sarjub-ala was also ranked second in AIBA World Rankings in 2014 in her weight category.
The Grassroot Boxing Pro-motions & Management is an Indian based professional box-ing company, which promotes professional boxing matches in India and outside India.
One boxer from Mizoram became World Youth champion in 2021 .
Grassroot is currently ranked No 1 Boxing Promotion Company in India .
Former Indian boxer and in-ternational medallist Mujtaba Kamal is promoting talented boxers from Pan India, who can make a mark in the global stage of professional boxing.