| Radzhab Butaev | |
| Nickname: | The Python |
| Weight: | |
| Height: | 1.79 m |
| Reach: | 183 cm |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Birth Place: | Khasavyurt, Dagestan, Russia |
| Style: | Orthodox |
| Total: | 17 |
| Wins: | 15 |
| Ko: | 12 |
| Losses: | 1 |
| No Contests: | 1 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Radzhab Yusupovich Butaev (Russian: Раджаб Юсупович Бутаев; born 15 December 1993) is a Russian professional boxer who has held the WBA (Regular) welterweight title from October 2021 to April 2022. At regional level he held the WBC-NABF super-welterweight title in 2016
As an amateur, Butaev was a winner of the Kazan Summer Universiade in 2013, fighting at light-welterweight.[1]
In 2015 he won six bouts of the World Series of Boxing.[2]
Butaev made his professional debut against Robert Alexander Seyam on March 25, 2016, and won his debut fight by a first-round knockout. He amassed a 10–0 record over the next two years, with just two victories coming by decision.[3] Buatev faced Lanardo Tyner on March 8, 2019,[4] and won the fight by a third-round technical knockout.[5] Butaev was scheduled to face Silverio Ortiz on May 3, 2019, whom he beat by unanimous.[6]
On September 30, 2019, it was announced that Butaev would fight Alexander Besputin for the vacant WBA Regular and EBP welterweight titles. Both Butaev and Besputin earned $252,777.50 for the fight, a 50/50 split of the purse.[7] Butaev lost the fight by unanimous decision, with all three judges awarding Besputin a 116-112 scorecard.[8] On January 15, 2020, it was revealed by the Monaco Boxing Federation that Besputin had tested positive for ligandrol, a substance prohibited by WADA.[9] Butaev immediately called the outcome of the fight into question, saying that the positive test was a "...disgrace and is disrespectful to the sport of boxing".[10] The fight was overturned to a no contest on July 6, 2020. Besputin was accordingly stripped of both titles.[11]
Butaev was scheduled to face the undefeated Terry Chatwood on December 26, 2020. He won the fight by a third-round knockout, stopping Chatwood with a left hook to the body at the 1:01 minute mark.[12]
The reigning WBA Regular champion Jamal James was ordered the face Butaev, who was at the time the #3 ranked WBA welterweight contender, in his first title defense. The fight was ordered on February 4, 2021, and the two were given a 30 days to negotiate before a purse bid would be called.[13] The fight was once again ordered on September 26, 2021,[14] and was later scheduled for October 30, 2021.[15] Butaev achieved his career best win, as he stopped James by technical knockout at the 2:12 minute mark of the ninth round.[16]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Win | 15–1 | Fazliddin Gaibnazarov | RTD | 3 (10), | 6 Nov 2023 | |||
| 16 | Lost | 14–1 | Eimantas Stanionis | 12 | 16 Apr 2022 | ||||
| 15 | Win | 14–0 | Jamal James | TKO | 9 (12), | 30 Oct 2021 | |||
| 14 | Win | 13–0 | Terry Chatwood | KO | 3 (10), | 26 Dec 2020 | |||
| 13 | NC | 12–0 | 12 | 30 Nov 2019 | |||||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Silverio Ortiz | UD | 6 | 3 May 2019 | |||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Lanardo Tyner | TKO | 3 (8), | 8 Mar 2019 | |||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Azael Cosio | 3 (10), | 27 Oct 2018 | ||||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Ramses Agaton | KO | 3 (8), | 20 Jul 2018 | |||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Janer Gonzalez | UD | 8 | 10 Nov 2017 | |||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Sherzodbek Alimjanov | KO | 3 (8), | 22 Jul 2017 | |||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Abraham Alvarez | KO | 1 (8), | 3 Jun 2017 | |||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Bakhrom Payazov | TKO | 1 (8), | 5 Apr 2017 | |||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Gabor Gorbics | 8 | 19 Nov 2016 | ||||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Jonathan Batista | KO | 4 (6), | 19 Oct 2016 | |||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | TyKeem Sadler | 1 (6), | 16 Apr 2016 | ||||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Robert Alexander Seyam | 1 (6), | 25 Mar 2016 |