A lifelong boxing enthusiast, Surya Jain is a Boxing Reporter at EssentiallySports with a foundation forged inside the ring. Introduced to combat sports at age six by his father, he went on to become a national silver medalist in taekwondo and later competed as a professional boxer. His reporting is shaped by this lived experience, offering readers a practitioner’s lens on the sport. Surya’s coverage of one of the world’s most unforgiving sports spans modern icons like Tyson Fury and Floyd Mayweather, as well as stories exploring the post-ring lives of legends like Mike Tyson.