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Nico Ali Walsh, grandson of the greatest of all time Muhammad Ali, is surprising everyone in the boxing world because he has a great projection and also a popularity preceded by the fact that he is the grandson of one of the most important boxers in the history of the sport.
During his five professional fights, Ali Walsh has five wins, all by way of knockout. The last one was at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (United States) in which only one round was enough to give Alejandro Ibarra a one-two that left him lying on the canvas, and the referee had to stop the fight.
“It’s something that happens when you work on it. I was preparing myself with my right, I saw that his left hand went down when he threw the jab and I took advantage of it”, confessed Ali Walsh after the end of the short fight against an opponent who had seven wins and two losses in his short career as a professional boxer.
Ali Walsh, 21 years old, has a great combination of moves and keeps getting better more and more with whom he is waiting for rivals of a higher level who can give a close fight. The grandson of Muhammad Ali fights in the middleweight category, a weight that is controlled by the boxer Gennady Golovkin.
Ali Walsh has four victories by way of knockout after his last win in the ring and one on points. Still with a long way to go and rivals to face, Nico Ali has the stage to become one of the greats of boxing and bring the show that his grandfather once caused in each match,
“I bring my grandfather back to life. That’s why my mother gets excited when she sees me. See, again, his father in the ring”, he said after adding the fifth victory in the professional field. Now he must wait for his next rival.
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