DID YOU KNOW?: Mary Kom wants Priyanka as her boxing academy’s ambassador

Olympian boxer M C Mary Kom wants Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra to become its brand ambassador

Olympian boxer M C Mary Kom wants Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra, who acted in the biopic Mary Kom, to become its brand ambassador, reported Hindustan Times.

“I will soon approach her to become the brand ambassador of my boxing academy. Hopefully she will agree,” said the only woman boxer to have won a medal in all the six world championships including the 2012 Olympics.

The film, which released last week, has been a hit and brought boxing in the limelight, said Kom. She wants to open branches of her boxing academy in other cities of India as well. Set up in 2006 at the Langol Games Village residential complex in Imphal West district, the M C Mary Kom Boxing Academy has around 33 in-residence student boxers who are trained under her guidance.

“If Priyanka endorses the academy it will be good for boxing because I need support from different quarters. It will help us attract young talent into the sport,” said Kom.

Kom has already got a 3.3 acre land in Imphal from the Manipur government and funds worth INR40 million from the central government to upgrade the academy’s infrastructure.

She said the new campus would be ready within a year with all facilities and hostel for boys and girls to host around 100 boxers. “Anyone can come there for training. We will have international level facilities,” she said. Once the expansion is complete she plans to open branches in other states with Chopra as the brand ambassador.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10^th, 2014.

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