“He is determined to reach the top and I think he will if he continues to focus.”
Bradford's Muhammad Amar Farooq crowned Yorkshire boxing champion
A BRADFORD boxer has won a Yorkshire Boxing Junior Championship. Muhammad Amar Farooq, who goes to Beckfoot Thornton School, was victorious in the 60kg weight division.
The 14-year-old trains out of the Purge Boxing Academy in Batley and is now looking to repeat that success in the National Championships.
Farooq fights in the quarter-final of the competition in Blackburn on March 8.
“It affected me so much that I was ill myself, but I trained hard, and I felt I needed to win the fight on Saturday for him.
Muhammad’s father, Amjad, tells the story of how boxing helped his son and was keen to praise his achievements inside the ring.
Amjad said: “When he was at his first school he got bullied and I had a friend who was into boxing so we took him to the gym.
“Six weeks later, he asked me to come down and said he has got a real talent.