Featherweight boxer Ramla Ali looks to break barriers in Saudi Arabia's first ever female fight
By Loureen Ayyoub for CNN
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By Loureen Ayyoub for CNN
Somali-born Briton Ramla Ali made history on Saturday night when she won the first professional women's boxing match held in Saudi Arabia with a spectacular first-round knockout of Crystal Garcia Nova.
JEDDAH: Somali-born Briton Ramla Ali won the first professional women’s boxing match held in Saudi Arabia with a spectacular first-round knock-out of Crystal Garcia Nova on Saturday.
JEDDAH: Somali-born Briton Ramla Ali won the first professional women's boxing match held in Saudi Arabia with a spectacular first-round knock-out of Crystal Garcia Nova on Saturday (Aug 20).
British-Somali super-bantamweight Ramla Ali took little more than a minute on Saturday to win the first sanctioned female professional boxing bout held in Saudi Arabia.
Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight title rematch with Oleksandr Usyk will be the focus of the boxing world on Saturday night with the 32-year-old Briton aiming to regain the belts he lost to the Ukrainian last September.
Ramla Ali views Saudi Arabia as a “very progressive country” as she defended her decision to fight in the kingdom.
While Saudi Arabia braces for the biggest heavyweight showdown of the year, the show will also break new ground when two female boxers square off for the first time in a professional bout in the Kingdom.