| Moussa Gholam | |
| Nickname: | King Khalifa[1] [2] |
| Weight: | Super-featherweight |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in |
| Nationality: | Moroccan |
| Birth Date: | 1995 6, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Larache, Morocco |
| Boxrec: | 753344 |
| Total: | 22 |
| Wins: | 21 |
| Losses: | 1 |
| Ko: | 13 |
Moussa Gholam (born 10 June 1995) is a Moroccan professional boxer who has held the WBO Inter-Continental super featherweight title since 2019.
Gholam was born on 10 June 1995 in Larache, Morocco, where he grew up with his grandmother. He moved to Barcelona at the age of seven to join his parents, who had been living and working in Ceuta before that.[3] Growing up in a tough neighborhood where he suffered from bullying, he began boxing to learn how to defend himself.[3] He has been with Gallego Prada club since he started when he was eleven years old.[4]
Gholam made his professional debut on 1 April 2016, defeating Reynaldo Maravillas via unanimous decision (UD) at the Pabellón de la Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona.[5] After a 10–0 start, he picked up the vacant WBC Youth Silver super featherweight title on 2 February 2019 by beating Romanian prospect Alex Rat (8–3–2, 3 KO), who did not answer the bell for the sixth round.[6] Less than ten months later, on 30 November, he faced Thai veteran Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo (61–5, 41 KO) for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental super featherweight title, stopping him by technical knockout (TKO) in the tenth round of their 10-round bout for his second title belt.[7] This entered him into the top 15 of the WBO rankings, placing him at #12.[8] He was named the best foreign boxer in Spain of 2019 by Espabox.com after winning all five of his fights and two titles.[9] He was scheduled to face Venezuelan rival Otto Gámez in March 2020,[10] but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Win | 20–1 |  Abraham Montoya | UD | 10 | 4 Mar 2023 | |||
| 20 | Loss | 19–1 |  Elnur Samedov | 10 | 11 Dec 2022 | | |||
| 19 | Win | 19–0 | Tomás Rojas | TKO | 5 (10) | 27 Feb 2022 | |||
| 18 | Win | 18–0 |  Victor Julio | KO | 5 (8) | 14 Nov 2021 | |||
| 17 | Win | 17–0 |  Mauro Alex Hasan Perouene | TKO | 8 (8), | 11 Sep 2021 | |||
| 16 | Win | 16–0 |  Nukri Gamgebell | KO | 1 (6), | 26 Jun 2021 | |||
| 15 | Win | 15–0 |  Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo | TKO | 10 (10), | 30 Nov 2019 | |||
| 14 | Win | 14–0 | Sergio Puente | UD | 8 | 14 Sep 2019 | |||
| 13 | Win | 13–0 | Arturo López | RTD | 3 (6), | 7 Jun 2019 | |||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Brandon Oertel | 3 (8), | 30 Mar 2019 | ||||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Alex Rat | 5 (10), | 2 Feb 2019 | ||||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 |  Sergio González | UD | 6 | 29 Sep 2018 | |||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Iago Barros | KO | 3 (6), | 11 May 2018 | |||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Ruben García | KO | 1 (6), | 14 Apr 2018 | |||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 |  Ibrahima Sarr | PTS | 6 | 11 Nov 2017 | |||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Ricardo Fernández | UD | 6 | 10 Jun 2017 | |||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Elvis Guillen | PTS | 4 | 24 Feb 2017 | |||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | José Aguilar | 4 | 2 Oct 2016 | ||||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Stefan Nicolae | KO | 3 (4), | 18 Jun 2016 | |||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Daniel Enache | 1 (4), | 27 May 2016 | ||||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Reynaldo Maravillas | 4 | 1 Apr 2016 |
Although he has lived in Spain continuously since he was a kid, he has not been able to become a Spanish citizen.[4]
Growing up playing football in the streets of Barcelona, Gholam is naturally a fan of FC Barcelona and he has cited Ronaldinho as his favorite footballer.[3] Apart from boxing he also works as an ambulance driver.[4]