{"id":10398,"date":"2016-07-17T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2016-07-17T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T11:11:53","slug":"cricket-stars-shower-praise-on-vijender-singh-after-his-epic-pro-boxing-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/cricket-stars-shower-praise-on-vijender-singh-after-his-epic-pro-boxing-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket stars shower praise on Vijender Singh after his epic pro-boxing triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Vijender_at_sahara_award.jpg\" alt=\"Vijender singh, Sachin, Sehwag, Dhoni, Raina, Laxman, Anurag Thakur, Cricket, Boxing\" width=\"539\" height=\"638\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indian boxer Vijender Singh defeated Australia\u2019s Kerry Hope on Saturday to become the new WBO Asia\/Pacific Middleweight champion. It was a terrific effort by India\u2019s star boxer who registered his seventh win in as many encounters. There were a few current and former Indian cricket players who were present at the venue to support Vijender Singh. Those names included Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh. They were continuously cheering for Vijender while the fight was going on and when the star boxer won the contest, they made sure to congratulate him on the micro-blogging site too.<\/p>\n<p>Virender Sehwag, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina and VVS Laxman etc to name a few Cricket personalities who congratulated Vijender Singh on Twitter after his win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/VijenderSingh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VijenderSingh<\/a> ,Thok Daala Tau !<br \/>Australia ka Hope fuss in front of our Tope <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boxervijender?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@boxervijender<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fZ3rNa4aE6\">pic.twitter.com\/fZ3rNa4aE6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Virrender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/virendersehwag\/status\/754372470770167808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RingKaKing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RingKaKing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boxervijender?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@boxervijender<\/a> for winning the great fight enjoyed a lot ????<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Suresh Raina?? (@ImRaina) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ImRaina\/status\/754372456354344960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saw a full mch of boxing after yrs.thks <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boxervijender?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@boxervijender<\/a> for mkg INDIA proud,it&#39;s just the start ur hrd wrk,dedication and sacrifice paid off<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mahendra Singh Dhoni (@msdhoni) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/msdhoni\/status\/754374005755437056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boxervijender?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@boxervijender<\/a> ?You deserve every bit of the WBO title?Great sporting news for India.<br \/>Made the nation proud? <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/VijenderSingh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VijenderSingh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VVSLaxman281\/status\/754523938202550273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar had also wished Vijender Singh before the competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wishing all the very best to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boxervijender?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@boxervijender<\/a>. You will surely make our nation proud. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RingKaKing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RingKaKing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sachin_rt\/status\/754253782968565760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>BCCI president Anurag Thakur also congratulated the champion Vijender Singh. Anurag Thakur said, \u201cA knock-out performance @boxervijender! Champ, you threw some hard punches! Congrats on staying unbeaten.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A knock-out performance <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boxervijender?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@boxervijender<\/a>! Champ, you threw some hard punches! Congrats on staying unbeaten. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ProWrestlingIndia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ProWrestlingIndia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ianuragthakur\/status\/754571091574714368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian boxer Vijender Singh defeated Australia\u2019s Kerry Hope on Saturday to become the new WBO Asia\/Pacific Middleweight champion. It was a terrific effort by India\u2019s star boxer who registered his seventh win in as many encounters. There were a few current and former Indian cricket players who were present at the venue to support Vijender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":10400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,70,8,170,140],"tags":[1021,1488,10,302,1057,1487,34,46,1486,117],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket-analysis","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-anurag-thakur","tag-boxing","tag-cricket","tag-dhoni","tag-laxman","tag-raina","tag-sachin","tag-sehwag","tag-vijender-singh","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}