KOONER CONNECTS! • 03.05.08
We are pleased to announce that Desi Wear / Entripy have just established a partnership agreement with Boxer: Andrew Kooner & Hennessy Sports (UK).
Andrew is the top Ranked Bantam Weight Boxer in Canada/UK - he is a 27 year old Sikh Boxer.
Kooner, who started the sport reluctantly at age 13 on the insistence of his mother. “My category is probably the toughest in the Americas. All the boxers are good. So I’m feeling right now that I have the capabilities to win.”
Kooner experienced his first international success at the 1996 world junior championships in Cuba. He won the silver medal but lost a controversial final to a Cuban before a raucous patriotic audience.
Some stats:
* Date of Birth11 May 1979
* Height 5ft 5′‘
* Weight Bantamweight
* Home town Toronto Canada
* Trainer Chris Johnson
* Canadian Bantamweight #1
* British #1 Ranked Bantamweight
* Canadian fighter of the year-2007
* •Sports writers prospect of the Year 2007
* 2 Time - CDN Olympic Team
* 2 Time - CDN Commonwealth Team
