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Pardeep Singh Nagra (born 1970) is a Sikh, Indo-Canadian former amateur boxer who competed from 1998 to 2001. Nicknamed "The Tiger", Pardeep was known for his distinct appearance with his large beard and turban on his head. As a practising Sikh, he had completely uncut hair on his head and beard, which was the topic of much controversy throughout his career. Nagra was also the former Ontario flyweight champion in 1999. A film was made in 2018, loosely based around his life named Tiger starring , Mickey Rourke, and Janel Parrish. Nagra served as a police officer in the Peel Regional Police after his boxing career, and later went on to work in the Toronto District School Board as the manager of employment equity.
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| dbo:abstract | Pardeep Singh Nagra (born 1970) is a Sikh, Indo-Canadian former amateur boxer who competed from 1998 to 2001. Nicknamed "The Tiger", Pardeep was known for his distinct appearance with his large beard and turban on his head. As a practising Sikh, he had completely uncut hair on his head and beard, which was the topic of much controversy throughout his career. Nagra was also the former Ontario flyweight champion in 1999. A film was made in 2018, loosely based around his life named Tiger starring , Mickey Rourke, and Janel Parrish. Nagra served as a police officer in the Peel Regional Police after his boxing career, and later went on to work in the Toronto District School Board as the manager of employment equity. Nagra was one of the first people to fight the beard ban in Canada in amateur boxing, and since winning that case in Canada, he worked in other countries such as England to help other bearded fighters to abolish the clean shaving rule. He helped to get the beard ban removed for current British professional boxer , who got the ban removed in 2018. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Pardeep Singh Nagra (born 1970) is a Sikh, Indo-Canadian former amateur boxer who competed from 1998 to 2001. Nicknamed "The Tiger", Pardeep was known for his distinct appearance with his large beard and turban on his head. As a practising Sikh, he had completely uncut hair on his head and beard, which was the topic of much controversy throughout his career. Nagra was also the former Ontario flyweight champion in 1999. A film was made in 2018, loosely based around his life named Tiger starring , Mickey Rourke, and Janel Parrish. Nagra served as a police officer in the Peel Regional Police after his boxing career, and later went on to work in the Toronto District School Board as the manager of employment equity. (en) |
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