Boxer rolls with the punches: First Singaporean pro boxer bouncing back from defeats

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Perspiration trickles down his furrowed brows as the echoes of his grunts fill the gym. There is a strange hypnotic harmony elicited by his grunts and the squeals of the punching bag as leather meets flesh. Muhamad Ridhwan, 31, is poetry in motion as he unleashes combinations of jabs, punches and hooks onto the hapless bag.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Muhamad Ridhwan shadowboxing after his morning run at Fort Canning Park. The first phase of training before a fight consists of endurance runs, sprints, strength and conditioning exercises, and shadowboxing. The boxer lives by the dictum that one needs to be fit to box and not box to be fit.Ridhwan taking a breather after a training session. A corner of his gym is plastered with newspaper articles documenting his boxing journey, which started when he first donned his gloves at 17.

Muhamad Ridhwan tosses and catches tennis balls as he balances on a BOSU ball to improve his hand-eye coordination, timing and balance.The boxer is lost in his thoughts during a break after a training session.ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG

 

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