Saweety Boora

Full Description: Saweety Boora, also known mononymously as Saweety, is an Indian boxer who competes in the middleweight weight class. Her sister Siwi Boora is also an Indian boxer. Saweety Boora was born on 10 January 1993 in rural Hisar, Haryana. Her father Mahender Singh, a farmer, played basketball at the national level. Boora was a state-level kabaddi player before switching to boxing in 2009 at the insistence of her father. She initially trained in the farmlands near Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University and had to move out of Haryana in order to pursue a career in the sport.