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Overconfidence cost me and it won't happen again: Vikas Krishnan
Updated On: 08 September, 2015 07:15 AM IST | | PTI
<p>His was the best performance by an Indian boxer at the recent Asian Championships in Thailand but Vikas Krishan is hardly satisfied with his silver as he feels it would have surely been a gold if not for "overconfidence".</p>
New Delhi: His was the best performance by an Indian boxer at the recent Asian Championships in Thailand but Vikas Krishan is hardly satisfied with his silver as he feels it would have surely been a gold if not for "overconfidence".
Vikas lost to 19-year-old Youth Olympic champion Bektemir Melikuziev of Uzbekistan in a brutal summit clash on Saturday. "I was not there for the silver, I wanted a gold. No doubt it was the toughest bout of my career but I should have won it. When I got to know that Melikuziev is just 19, I thought I would kill him and that made me overconfident,"
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