Deepak Bhoria is being called the 'next big star' in Indian boxing. He stole the limelight on Sunday in the World Championship in the 51 KG category, stunning Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist and 2021 World Champion Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan 5-2 (after bout review) in the Round of 32-bout. It was not his first surprise in the ring. He upset the then reigning World and Olympic champion Shakobdin Zoirov of Uzbekistan in June 2021. Now Bhoria has the only mission of surpassing Amit Panghal's achievement of being the only Indian male boxer to have acquired a silver medal in the World Championship. 

Deepak was born into a joint family with a humble background. His father was a home guard and his mother was a homemaker. Deepak's main focus growing up was to support his family with a regular income.

At that point, boxing was not his area of focus, given the struggles daily life posed for him and his family. But it all changed at the age of 15 when he started to take discipline seriously. Even in a bid to fulfill the financial needs Deepak had to deliver newspapers, door to door for quite some months. Even, his mother had to work on farms to maintain the study of her elder sister. 

Deepak enrolled himself at the Universal Boxing Academy in Hisar at the age of 11. But it took him at least four years to consider boxing as a serious career prospect. He trained under coach Rajesh Sheoran at the Rajgarh Road-based academy. His coach saw his potential from the time he came in but was disappointed to see a young Deepak return home regularly with pain in his knees, back, and other parts. Deepak had relied on regular food without consuming any sort of dietary supplement during his formative years of training. And Sheoran noticed that it left him tired and in pain after a heavy day of training. Deepak was not in a position to arrange a costly diet for himself and coach Sheoran was in a predicament whether to let him go or arrange for his diet. He chose the latter for one of the most talented students in the academy and went on to further also waived off his fees.

Deepak came to the fore and displayed his raw talent at the Inter-Services Championships in 2016. He was then spotted by national coach Jai Singh Patil, who was impressed with his performance and helped him join the Army Sports Institute in Pune. After training at the institute, he beat fellow compatriot Amit Pangal at the inter-services contest in 2017 and won the senior national title in 2018. 

He currently serves the Army as a Naib Subedar and was congratulated by the Army Chief, General MM Naravane, after his performance at the Strandja Memorial tournament.

In the 2017 nationals, he suffered a morale-sapping knockout which meant he could not be in the reckoning for a place in the 2018 Commonwealth Games squad as boxers who suffer knockouts need to rest for three-to-six months. But showing an indomitable courage he bounced back from that disappointment and won the nationals the next year!