Mohammed Rabii

Mohammed Rabii
Data
Birth Name	Mohammed Rabii
Weight class	Light middleweight
nationality	Morocco Morocco
birthday	July 13, 1993
place of birth	Morocco Casablanca
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.78 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	10
Victories	10
Knockout victories	5

Mohammed Rabii medal table
Boxing
Morocco Morocco
Olympic games
bronze	2016	Welterweight
World championships
gold	2015	Welterweight
African Championships
gold	2015	Welterweight

Mohammed Rabii (* 13. July 1993 in Casablanca , Morocco ) is a Moroccan professional boxer in the light middleweight .

Amateur career

Mohammed Rabii is around 1.80 m tall and left-hand boom. He participated in the 2009 Junior World Championships in Armenia and the 2010 World Youth Championships in Azerbaijan . At the African Youth Championships 2010 in Cameroon , he won silver in the light welterweight division. At the 2013 World Championships in Kazakhstan , he was eliminated in the preliminary round against Erkin Bolotbek uulu.

In 2015 he boxed for the Moroccan team Morocco Atlas Lions in the World Series of Boxing (WSB), won each of his seven fights and finished the season in first place in the WSB welterweight ranking, which he qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Janeiro qualified. He was also voted the season's best boxer. Among his defeated opponents were the later World Cup bronze winner Liu Wei and the reigning Olympic champion Roniel Iglesias .

In August 2015 he won the welterweight gold medal at the African Championships in Morocco and in October 2015 also the welterweight gold medal at the World Championships in Qatar . He had defeated the later Olympians Alberto Palmeta and Josh Kelly , as well as Liu Wei again and was able to prevail in the final against the reigning Asian and World Champion Danijar Jeleussinow . In December 2015, at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro, he defeated the boxers Araik Marutjan and Juan Romero, who were also qualified for the Olympics .

He then started as one of the favorites at the 2016 Olympic Games, where he defeated Rayton Okwiri and Steven Donnelly before he was eliminated in the semi-finals against Shaxram Gʻiyosov with a bronze medal. Gʻiyosov was later defeated in the final against Danijar Jeleussinow.

Professional career

Rabii moved to the professional camp in October 2016 under the Irish promoter Nowwhere2Hyde Management from Gary Hyde, trained under Donald Leary and won his debut on March 11, 2017 in Prague through technical knockout (TKO) in the first round against László Kovács.

In his next fights he defeated, among others, Giuseppe Lauri, Anderson Clayton, Gogi Knežević and Rafał Jackiewicz .

Private

Rabii is married and has a son born in 2017.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Rabii, Mohammed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Moroccan boxer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH	Casablanca

[1] Mohammed Rabii, Olympic.org

[2] Mohammed Rabii, SES Boxing

[3] Junior World Championships 2009

[4] Youth World Championships 2010

[5] African Youth Championships 2010

[6] World Championships 2013

[7] Mohammed Rabii, AIBA.org

[8] #WSBV Day 10 - Boxer of the Week - Mohammed Rabii

[9] AIBA Awards: Morocco's Mohammed Rabii Named WSB Boxer of the Year

[10] African Championships 2015

[11] World Championships 2015

[12] Olympic Test Event 2015

[13] 2016 Olympic Games

[14] World Amateur Champion wins Pro Debut, 15rounds.com