Brampton’s King of the Ring Boxing Club recently sent four of its provincial champion boxers to the Canadian National Championships in Edmonton, one of the larger team contingents in the country, and achieved 100 per cent gold medal results.

It’s an accomplishment that no other Canadian club that sent more than one boxer attained. The gold medallists from King of the Ring are Sunny Thind (youth male, 75-kilograms), Jasper Singh (youth female, 81-plus kg), Garinder Takhar (youth female, 48 kg) and Fateh Karan Singh (youth male, 48 kg).

It was the second Canadian gold medal for Thind, last year’s Youth Commonwealth bronze medallist. Ajaz Khan, head coach and patriarch of King of the Ring, says, “These kids worked so hard to achieve a dream few boxers ever get to experience, and they are an inspiration to the many future champions at King of the Ring.”

King of the Ring boasts some 40 registered boxers, 75 per cent of whom are under the age of 18, with over 50 per cent under the age of 14. Khan describes this new wave of boxers as the future of Ontario boxing and hopeful Canadian champions and Olympians.