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Boxer rolls with the punches: Singaporean pro boxer bouncing back from defeats
Muhamad Ridhwan suffered two straight losses, but aims to get back to winning ways
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Chong Jun Liang Photojournalist
Perspiration trickles down his furrowed brows as the echoes of his grunts fill the gym. There is a strange hypnotic harmony elicited by his grunts and the squeals of the punching bag as leather meets flesh. Muhamad Ridhwan, 31, is poetry in motion as he unleashes combinations of jabs, punches and hooks onto the hapless bag.
As the three-hour session draws to a close, Ridhwan says he is going for round two. He is putting in extra hours for the day as he does not want my camera to distract him during his actual training routine.
