Sadam Ali: record, next fight and profile →
NEW YORK – Sadam Ali could’ve been difficult. Once Liam Smith pulled out of their title fight scheduled for Saturday night, Ali could’ve carefully gone about finding a late replacement for the British contender. The Brooklyn native didn’t hesitate, though, when his handlers asked him to make his first title defense against dangerous challenger Jaime Munguia.
Ali, Munguia Weigh-In Photos Gallery - HBO Sports presents another WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING card from the Empire State, this time visiting Verona, for SADAM ALI VS. JAIME MUNGUIA AND REY VARGAS VS. AZAT HOVHANNISYAN, to be seen SATURDAY, MAY 12 at 10:00 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from Turning Stone Resort Casino, exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports team will call the action, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino. (photos by Ed Mulholland).
By Cliff Rold - Slowly, the 2008 US Olympic boxing team has turned into quite the productive little class as professionals. Despite only a single medal (bronze, Deontay Wilder) at those games, three team members currently hold major titles and two more are former title holders in line for more shots down the road. O...
Sadam Ali Video Interview - The main event is a junior middleweight title showdown, as Brooklyn’s Sadam Ali (26-1, 14 KOs) defends his crown against rising challenger Jaime Munguia (28-0, 24 KOs) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, in a scheduled 12-round bout. The 29-year-old Ali played spoiler at boxing legend Miguel Cotto’s retirement fight last December, and now looks to build his own legacy.
NEW YORK – Andre Rozier readily admits that he is bothered by the lack of credit the fighter he trains, Sadam Ali, has received for upsetting Miguel Cotto. Ali’s critics contend that the newly crowned WBO super welterweight champion’s victory over Cotto (41-6, 33 KOs) was more about the 37-year-old Cotto’s decline than anything Ali did December 2 at Madison Square Garden. Many of those same detractors think late replacement Jaime Munguia will knock off Ali in the Brooklyn boxer’s first defense of the WBO 154-pound championship he won from Cotto five months ago.
As Liam Smith called in sick to face WBO junior middleweight titlist, Sadam Ali, Golden Boy Promotions was left scrambling to find a replacement on late notice. And it was undefeated Mexican contender Jaime Munguia (28-0, 24 KO's) who got the call to face Ali this Saturday night at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York as the main event on HBO.
With more than eight weeks of intense preparation, Mexican prospect Jaime Munguia finished his sparring sessions yesterday with the a twelve round test for his match on Saturday May 12 in Verona, New York against the WBO super welterweight world champion Sadam Ali.
Jaime Munguia (28-0, 24 KOs), the dangerous undefeated 154-pound contender of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, will step in to challenge Sadam "World Kid" Ali (26-1, 14 KOs) of Brooklyn, N.Y. in a 12-round battle for the WBO Junior Middleweight World Title on May 12 at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y.
Mexico's Jaime Munguia is very eager to get in the ring on May 12 in Verona, New York, when he goes for the junior middleweight title of the World Organization of Boxing. Munguia, 21, is unbeaten with a record of 28-0 with 24 knockouts, while Ali has a record of 26-1 and 14 knockouts.
The fortune of Mexican junior middleweight Jaime Munguia has changed for the better. A few short weeks ago, he was being considered as the replacement opponent for Canelo Alvarez, who due to a positive drug test was forced to withdraw from a planned rematch with unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin on May 5.