Kash Ali: record, next fight and profile →
Heavyweights Kash Ali and Josh Sandland will clash in an all-Yorkshire derby battle at the Barnsley Metrodome on February 21st, as chief support to local man Josh Wale’s headline fight against Tanzania’s Iddi Kayumba.
Promoter Dennis Hobson has signed Kash Ali and believes he can get the controversial heavyweight into the British top six within a couple of fights and, ultimately, the first British Asian to win the British Heavyweight Title.
Kash Ali is hoping to get a rematch with Olympic bronze medal winner David Price. Earlier this year, Ali went viral for the wrong reasons - when he was disqualified for biting Price in their heavyweight scrap. The British Boxing Board of Control banned Ali for six months and fined him £10,000.
Heavyweight Kash Ali finally received his punishment, after last month's incident where he was disqualified in his bout with David Price, who was bit by Ali in the non-title fight in Liverpool before it was waved off in the fifth round by the referee. When it happened, the British Boxing Board of Control suspended Ali, 27, pending a hearing. Ali also has had his purse, estimated to be about £20,000 withheld.
Kash Ali is trying to make amends after having his boxing licence suspended in connection to last weekend's disqualification for biting David Price during their fight in Liverpool. The British Boxing Board of Control has ordered Ali to appear before a the organisation’s Central Area Council.
As previously reported, heavyweight contender Kash Ali had his license suspended after being disqualified for biting during last Saturday's heavyweight fight with David Price. Ali was accused by Price of biting him on multiple occasions in their fight in Liverpool on Saturday before it was waved off in the fifth round by the referee. Price had a clear bite mark on his chest.
Heavyweight Kash Ali’s luck has gone from bad to worse. The British Boxing Board of Control has announced that Ali's boxing license has been suspended pending a hearing. Ali was disqualified for biting David Price during Saturday’s heavyweight bout.
The headlines were everywhere on Saturday, when Kash Ali was disqualified for biting Olympic bronze medal winner David Price during the fifth round of their heavyweight clash at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool. After Price had connected with a strong counter-punch right hand on the previously undefeated Ali, both men ended up grappling.
Olympic bronze medal winner David Price believes Kash Ali was "looking for a way out" by biting him during their heavyweight fight in Liverpool on Saturday. Ali was disqualified in the fifth round after appearing to bite fellow Brit Price at the M&S Bank Arena.
David Price, Kash Ali Fight Photos Gallery - Liverpool heavyweight David Price continued to rebuild his career with a bizarre fifth round disqualification over Birmingham’s previously unbeaten but untested Kash Ali who bit the local man as the two were wrapped up on the canvas.