Sadam Ali

Sadam Ali
Data
Birth Name	Sadam Ali
Fight name	World Kid
Weight class	Welterweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	September 26, 1988
place of birth	Brooklyn
style	Standard boom (left boom)
size	1.75 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	30th
Victories	27
Knockout victories	14th
Defeats	2

Sadam Ali (born September 26, 1988 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American professional boxer .

Amateur career

Sadam Ali is the son of Muslim immigrants from Yemen . He started boxing at the age of eight at the Bed-Stuy Boxing Club in Bedford - Stuyvesant . He was encouraged to do this by his Yemeni compatriot "Prince" Naseem Hamed , who had become professional featherweight champion in England .

Sadam Ali is now a member of the Havoc Boxing Club.

Even as a junior he was very successful and won a. a. the US Junior Championship, became PAL Champion and Junior Olympic National Champion.

In 2006 he was in Chattanooga with a points win over Rico Ramos winner of the National Golden Gloves of the senior featherweight. At the USA Championship in 2006, however, he was defeated in the quarterfinals against Luis Del Valle and finished 5th. Sadam Ali made his first appearance in an international championship at the Junior World Championship in Agadir in 2006 . He won there over Yavheni Ramaschkewitsch from Belarus (22:12) and Paul Turcitu from Romania (27:12) on points, but lost in the quarter-finals to Yordan Frometa Gendry from Cuba just on points (39:41) and thus finished 5th. Space.

In 2007 Sadam Ali won the National Golden Goves title again, but this time in the lightweight with a points win over Stan Martyniouk. At the USA Championship in 2007 he was eliminated early in the quarterfinals by a narrow point defeat against Jerry Belmontes . But then he won the US Olympic Trials in Houston in August 2007 in the lightweight. He won over Terence Crawford (17:12), Miguel Gonzales (23:13), Jerry Belmontes (32:23) and Miguel Gonzalez on points.

At the 2007 World Cup in Chicago , Sadam Ali initially won against José Pedraza from Puerto Rico on points (25:17), but lost in the round of 32 against Hravchik Javakhjan from Armenia on points (16:20) and was eliminated. He was far more successful in the subsequent test tournament for the Olympic Games in Beijing . He defeated Jean Gomis from France (29:11), Francisco Vargas from Mexico (29:22) and Owethu Mbira from South Africa (26:10) on points and was only defeated in the final against Serik Scheleylow from Kazakhstan on points (17:30 ).

After this tournament, a three-country match USA - Kazakhstan - China took place in Zunyi / China . Before this tournament, doping tests were taken and Sadam Ali's sample was positive. Traces of the forbidden substance "cathine" were found in his blood. Usually such a finding results in a two-year ban from all national and international fights. Sadam Ali managed to convince the international boxing federation AIBA that because of an injury in Zunyi he had to take a drug that had been mistakenly mixed with a drug that contained cathine. The AIBA then reduced the ban to three months. This expired on February 22, 2008.

Sadam Ali was therefore able to take part in the first American qualification tournament in Port of Spain / Trinidad , where he won the ticket to Beijing with victories over Jesus Cuadro from Venezuela and Juan Nicolas Cuellas from Argentina . The defeat in the final of this tournament against Yordenis Ugás from Cuba (5:13) no longer played a role for the Olympic qualification.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing , Sadam Ali lost his first fight against the Romanian Georgian Popescu on points (5:20). He did not reach the round of the last 16 boxers and ended up in 17th place with all the losers of his round.

• International success

(WM = world championship, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, up to 57 kg or 60 kg body weight)

• 2006, 5th place , Junior World Championships in Agadir , Fe, behind Yordan Frometa , Cuba , Vyacheslav Schipunow, Russia , Paul Fleming, Australia a . Hamza Kramou, Algeria ;

• 2007, unpl. , World Championships in Chicago , Le, winner: Frankie Gavin , England, ahead of Alexei Wiktorowitsch Tischtschenko , Russia;

• 2007, 2nd place , test tournament for the Olympic Games in Beijing , Le, behind Serik Scheleylow, Kazakhstan u. in front of Owethu Mbira, South Africa ;

• 2008, 2nd place , Olympic qualification tournament in Port of Spain / Trinidad , Le, behind Yordenis Ugás , Cuba u. before Juan Nicolas Cuellas, Argentina ;

• 2008, 17th place , OS in Beijing , Le, after losing points to Georgian Popescu, Romania (5:20)

• International battles

• 2007 in Bend, United States against Australia , Le, points winner over William Tomlinson (27:14),
• 2008 in Philadelphia , United States against Puerto Rico , Le, points winner over Reynaldo Ojeda (40:20)

• National successes

• 2006, 1st place, National Golden Gloves, Fe, before Rico Ramos,
• 2007, 1st place, National Golden Gloves, Le, in front of Stan Martyniouk,
• 2007, 1st place, US-America. Olympic elimination (Trials), Le, before Miguel Gonzalez u. Jerry Belmontes

Professional career

Since January 2009 he has been active as a professional boxer and initially fights against opponents to get used to the changed conditions in the professional camp. He defeated his first major opponent on August 21, 2010; he won by knockout in round 5 over the former WBC Latino champion , Lenin Arroyo from Costa Rica.

On April 19, 2014, he won by knockout in the first round against Michael Clark (44-9) and thus secured the North American welterweight championship. In the fight for the WBO title on March 5, 2016, he lost prematurely to Jessie Vargas .

swell

• Box Sport trade journal from 2006 to 2008,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• Website "www.usaboxing.org"

Web links

• Sadam Ali in the BoxRec database
• Portrait of Sadam Ali in engl. language
• Sadam Ali in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )