Joy Ali | |
Nationality: | Fijian |
Realname: | Zulfikar Joy Ali |
Nickname: | Jet |
Weight: | Middleweight |
Birth Date: | 1978 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Nadi, Fiji |
Death Place: | Suva, Fiji |
Style: | Orthodox |
Total: | 51 |
Wins: | 31 |
Ko: | 26 |
Losses: | 13 |
Draws: | 6 |
No Contests: | 1 |
Zulfikar Joy Ali (22 December 1978 – 5 January 2015) was a Fijian boxer. He had won 31 boxing matches in his career.
In 1995, Ali's first reported boxing match was against Raven, whom he defeated in the fourth round by a KO at the National Indoor Stadium, Suva, Fiji.[1] He won the vacant Pan Asian Boxing Association (PABA) light middleweight title against the former World Amateur bronze medalist Ercüment Aslan of Turkey.[1] [2]
Ali was a very religious person and followed the Islamic faith.[3] He sold razor blades with his younger brother to start off his boxing career.[4] Ali died on 5 January 2015, aged 36, at the CWM Hospital in Suva.[5] His death was a suicide.[6] Ali is survived by his wife and three children.[5]