{"id":67163,"date":"2021-05-04T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=67163"},"modified":"2021-05-04T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:57:43","slug":"pakistani-fighter-ezzatullah-kakar-laments-lack-of-government-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=67163","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani fighter Ezzatullah Kakar laments lack of government support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fighter.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>KARACHI: Pakistani fighter Ezzatullah Kakar said he has been fighting for the country for the last 17 years without any government support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to ARY News after defeating the world&#8217;s number six fighter in a Bare-knuckle boxing event in the United States of America (USA), Kakar said he has suffered through high risks during his career to reach this stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came a long way to reach this stage. I belong to a small village in Balochistan where community fights put people&#8217;s life at high risk,&#8221; he shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been an enthusiast of sports since my childhood and started my career as a Karate master. Step by step, I reached where I wanted to, and alhamdulillah today I won this mega-fight that no Pakistani fighter has ever won before,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kakar said throughout his whole journey he never got support from the government. &#8220;Government never supported me. I was kicked out from the national team just because I belong to a small village. Lack of government support led me to participate in an event in Australia illegally due to which I was imprisoned for eight years,&#8221; he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After coming out of jail, I went to the USA and practiced there as I didn&#8217;t want to lose my dream of representing Pakistan. Alhumdulillah, I became the first Pakistani fighter to take part in a dangerous Bare-knuckle boxing event. My next fight is even bigger than this,&#8221; he disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want the government to support their athletes so that nobody else suffers the way I did. It was a tough in fact very tough journey, to be honest without their support,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wrestler-inam-butt-blames-government-qualifying-tokyo-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inam Butt blames government for not qualifying in Tokyo Olympics<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>KARACHI: Pakistani fighter Ezzatullah Kakar said he has been fighting for the country for the last 17 years without any government support. Speaking exclusively to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=67163\" title=\"Pakistani fighter Ezzatullah Kakar laments lack of government support\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67165,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67163\/revisions\/67165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}