Rizwaan Zahid

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Rizwaan Zahid is attending Carleton University in Ottawa and is currently pursuing his Mass Communications degree, with the future aspirations of becoming a professional sports writer. Although relatively young, Rizwaan has shown his passion of writing the beautiful sport of boxing and has worked with Bragging Rights Corner, Boxing Banter, Diamond Boxing, Fightfan.com, East Side Boxing as well as The Fight Network for over three years. With Fightfan.com, Rizwaan has been awarded the feature article of the month numerous times. Over these past few years, Rizwaan has interviewed and conducted conferences with fighters and trainers such as Jeff Mayweather, Jermaine Taylor, Kelly Pavlik, Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones Jr., Jackie Kallen, Wayne McCullough, Manny Pacquaio, Wladimir Klitsckho and Emmanuel Steward.

Although boxing has been his main focus over the years, Rizwaan still has a strong passion for many other sports, and has covered various sports in The Charlatan, Carleton University's newspaper. These include varsity water polo, baseball, football, hockey and basketball. Rizwaan has also worked with PHASE 1 Basketball, a camp based out of Toronto as well as the Out of Left Field blog which attracts numerous readers daily.

Rizwaan Zahid joined Suite 101 in 2008, and hopes to continue his efforts in journalism in the world of sports.