Vijender Singh (75kg) took just over a minute to pull off an intimidating knock-out win and assure himself of a second successive Commonwealth Games medal. However, it was curtains for defending champion Akhil Kumar who was beaten by Olympic bronze-medallist Bruno Julie in the boxing quarter-finals of the event in New Delhi on Sunday.
India's boxers are remembered only during a big event, says Olympics medal hope Akhil Kumar. 'Before and after that no one cares.'
India's boxers finished with a haul of one gold, two silver and two bronze, their best from the sport at any Commonwealth Games.
The Indian claimed Bantamweight gold by beating Louis Richard Bruno Julie of Mauritius
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