In the end, it was all over in under two minutes.
On 25 January, Nishant Dev, a 24-year-old boxer from Karnal in Haryana, did something only a handful of Indians have done before him—turn professional as a boxer. Signed on by one of the world’s most prestigious boxing promotions—Matchroom—Dev made his debut at the towering The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, famous for its 100,000 square feet casino, against another rookie, the California boxer Alton Wiggins.
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