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Akhil to vacate bantamweight for Jitender

New Delhi: India’s best bantamweight boxer for the past six years, Olympian Akhil Kumar said on Tuesday that he would go up a division next year to vacate the 54kg category for his protege Jitender Kumar (51kg).

Speaking on his return after winning a bronze medal at the World Cup in Moscow, Akhil said that he didn’t want to block Jitender’s progress. Besides, Akhil said, he was also having trouble maintaining the bantamweight for quite some time. —PTI

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