Known For: Indian boxer
Category: Athletes
Occupation: boxer
Country: India
City: Haryana
Date of Birth: Monday, 11 November 1991
Neeraj Goyat is an Indian boxer and mixed martial artist. He won the title of "India's Most Promising Boxer" in 2008. The first Indian boxer to have made it to WBC World Rankings. Also, he won award of WBC Asia "Honorary Boxer of the year" in 2017. He became the first Indian who defeated China's boxer Xu Can in China in the year 2014, who is World Boxing Association world champion. Neeraj was in a car accident in 2019, but has recovered and competed since.
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Goyat was born in Begumpur village in Karnal, Haryana. 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 senior national tournament held in 2017, he won the platinum medal. In the year 2014, 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 gymnastics, but then when he saw boxers training around him he was really impressed with their level of fitness and longevity and that's how he shifted to boxing he got selected in the Army sports institute in the year 2001, got very good training from the coaches there and learnt a lot from the senior cyclists in the institute. He aims at becoming the WBC World Champion and follow the footsteps of his favourite boxer Mike Tyson who is also a former WBC World Champion. Neeraj Goyat was the first Indian professional boxer who went to Venezuela for the Olympic qualifiers before the 2016 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal. He won the award of WBC Asia ‘Honorary Boxer of the Year’ 2017.
