Murodjon Akhmadaliev: record, next fight and profile →
Former junior featherweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev desperately wants to rectify the lone loss of his career by taking on the winner of the upcoming undisputed 122-pound championship between Naoya Inoue and Marlon Tapales.
Murodjon Akhmadaliev punched his way back into contention for the division’s top prize. The dethroned unified WBA/IBF junior featherweight titlist battered previously unbeaten Kevin Gonzalez en route to an eighth-round stoppage. Akhmadaliev scored two knockdowns each in rounds six and eight. The fourth and final knockdown produced an immediate stoppage at 2:48 of the eighth round in their WBA title eliminator Saturday evening at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
Murodjon Akhmadaliev was direct and to the point when he spoke of his immediate mission during Thursday’s press conference for his WBA title eliminator versus Kevin Gonzalez. The former unified junior featherweight titlist is set for his revenge tour, as a win this weekend puts him directly in line for one of the two belts he lost this year to Marlon Tapales.
Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez kept everyone waiting for Friday’s weigh-in, though already after he made weight. The two-division and reigning WBO flyweight titleholder ran late for what was later revealed as the ceremonial weigh-in ahead of his unification bout versus IBF champ Sunny Edwards. Rodriguez tipped the scales at a fit 111.6 pounds, while Edwards was 111.6 pounds.
Murodjon Akhmadaliev will face Kevin Gonzalez in an eliminator for the WBA World Super-Bantamweight title as the chief support bout to the Flyweight unification blockbuster between Jesse Rodriguez and Sunny Edwards at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona on Saturday December 16, live worldwide on DAZN – with Edwards being joined by four fellow British talents on the card.
Matchroom Boxing has secured the rights to a title eliminator where the winner could potentially challenge for the undisputed crown. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the Murodjon ‘MJ’ Akhmadaliev-Kevin Gonzalez WBA 122-pound title elimination
A junior featherweight title eliminator will head to a purse bid hearing as moves are being made elsewhere to fully unify all of the division’s titles. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the teams representing Murodjon Akhmadaliev and Kevin Gonzalez failed to reach
Murodjon Akhmadaliev is back at the negotiating stable and still at least one fight away from competing for his old title. The former WBA/IBF junior featherweight titlist has been ordered to next face Mexico’s Kevin Gonzalez in a final
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee has applied pressure to get a deal finalized for an ordered super bantamweight eliminator bout between Japan’s Tomoki Kameda and Uzbekistan’s Murodjon Akhmadaliev.
A path has been cleared to crown an undisputed 122-pound king. It’s now up to the reigning unified titlists to seize the opportunity. Newly crowned WBA/IBF junior featherweight titlist Marlon Tapales was granted permission by the WBA to enter a voluntary title defense, specifically targeting the winner of the July 25 Stephen Fulton-Naoya Inoue WBC/WBO junior