| Muhammadkhuja Yaqubov | |
| Weight: | |
| Nationality: | Tajikistani |
| Birth Date: | 1995 3, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Isfara, Tajikistan |
| Style: | Southpaw |
| Boxrec: | 754350 |
| Total: | 22 |
| Wins: | 21 |
| Losses: | 1 |
| Ko: | 11 |
Muhammadkhuja Iskandarovich Yaqubov (born 31 March 1995) is a Tajikistani professional boxer who has held the WBC International super-featherweight title since 2018.
Yaqubov started boxing at the age of 10 and reached the rank of Candidate for Master of Sport (кмс).[1]
Yaqubov turned professional in late 2015, signing a deal with RCC Boxing Promotions.[1] He soon made his debut on 12 December of that year, defeating fellow debutant Vladimir Terekhov in Saint Petersburg.[2] After three more victories he received his first title shot on 15 November 2016, and defeated Nikolai Buzolin by eighth-round technical knockout (TKO) to win the WBC–ABCO Continental lightweight title.[3] He retained it three months later against veteran Yogli Herrera by way of unanimous decision (UD).[4] In his next fight he picked up the vacant WBO Youth lightweight title; his opponent Feruzbek Yuldashev didn't answer the bell for the fifth round due to injury.[5] Two months later he successfully defended it, scoring three knockdowns en route to a first-round TKO of Japanese challenger Daiki Ichikawa.[5]
On 10 February 2018, Yaqubov defeated young prospect Mark Urvanov by UD in Yekaterinburg, adding the WBA Continental and IBF Baltic super-featherweight titles to his résumé.[3] He won the vacant WBC International super-featherweight title a few months after that, stopping Víctor Alejandro Zúñiga in the first round with a shot to the solar plexus on 19 August.[6] In his first defense of the WBC International belt in February 2019, he decisioned Emanuel López at the KRK Uralets.[7] He also outpointed NABF champ Abraham Montoya and former world champ Tomás Rojas in subsequent title bouts.[8] [9] Yaqubov made his fourth WBC International title defense against Lunga Sitemela on 27 March 2021, whom he beat by unanimous decision.[10]
Yaubov faced O'Shaquie Foster in a WBC title eliminator on 18 March 2022, on the undercard of the Sunny Edwards and Muhammad Waseem IBF title bout.[11] He lost the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 118–109, 117–110 and 117–110.[12] Yaqubov rebounded from the first loss of his professional career with a unanimous decision victory over Carlos Daniel Cordoba on 11 September 2022, and a knockout of Javokhirbek Karimov on April 28, 2023.[13]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Win | 21–1 | Pablo Vicente | UD | 10 | 25 Nov 2023 | |||
| 21 | Win | 20–1 | Javokhirbek Karimov | KO | 1 (8), | 28 Apr 2023 | |||
| 20 | Win | 19–1 | Carlos Daniel Cordoba | UD | 8 | 11 Sep 2022 | |||
| 19 | Loss | 18–1 | O'Shaquie Foster | UD | 12 | 18 Mar 2022 | |||
| 18 | Win | 18–0 | Christian Palma | RTD | 4 (10), | 11 Sep 2021 | |||
| 17 | Win | 17–0 | Lunga Sitemela | UD | 10 | 27 Mar 2021 | |||
| 16 | Win | 16–0 | Tomás Rojas | UD | 12 | 7 Mar 2020 | |||
| 15 | Win | 15–0 | Abraham Montoya | UD | 12 | 2 Nov 2019 | |||
| 14 | Win | 14–0 | Jhon Gemino | KO | 2 (8), | 13 Jul 2019 | |||
| 13 | Win | 13–0 | Emanuel López | UD | 10 | 22 Feb 2019 | |||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Víctor Alejandro Zúñiga | KO | 1 (10), | 19 Aug 2018 | |||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Mark Urvanov | UD | 12 | 10 Feb 2018 | |||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Jaime Barcelona | KO | 1 (8), | 15 Dec 2017 | |||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Ernie Sanchez | KO | 4 (8), | 9 Sep 2017 | |||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Daiki Ichikawa | TKO | 1 (8), | 9 Jul 2017 | |||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Feruzbek Yuldashev | RTD | 4 (8), | 2 May 2017 | |||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Yogli Herrera | 10 | 18 Feb 2017 | ||||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Nikolai Buzolin | 8 (10), | 15 Nov 2016 | ||||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Andranik Hloyan | 4 (8), | 17 Sep 2016 | ||||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Nikolai Buzolin | 6 | 8 May 2016 | ||||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Amir Saltayev | 4 | 22 Apr 2016 | ||||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Vladimir Terekhov | 3 (4), | 12 Dec 2015 |