Khalid Yafai
| Khalid Yafai خالد يافعي |
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Yafai in 2015
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| Nickname(s) | Kal | |||||||||
| Rated at | Super-flyweight | |||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) | |||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||
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11 June 1989 Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
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| Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||
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| Total fights | 21 | |||||||||
| Wins | 21 | |||||||||
| Wins by KO | 14 | |||||||||
| Losses | 0 | |||||||||
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Khalid "Kal" Yafai (Arabic: خالد يافعي; born 11 June 1989) is a British professional boxer who has held the WBA super-flyweight title since December 2016. As an amateur, he represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal at the 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships as a flyweight.
Like Naseem Hamed, Yafai is the son of Yemeni parents. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham.
In June 2005, he won a silver medal in the European Cadet Championships in Hungary, recording 4 wins before losing in the final to Russian Farid Aleshkin. He received the BBC Midlands 2005 "Junior Sportsman of the Year" award, after he became England's first ever U17 World Boxing Champion, when he won the World Cadet title winning the junior flyweight title against Luis Yáñez of the United States.
Fighting for Birmingham City ABC, he became one of the youngest British (ABA) champions in December 2006 while still 17, at the World Junior Championships 2006 in Agadir, Morocco. He lost in the quarter final to the eventual Cuban winner Alexei Collado.
At the 20ian Misha Aloyan. As Britain's youngest team member at the 2007 Seniors World Championship, the 18-year-old beat his Armenian opponent Derenik Gizhlaryan, but later lost to Violito Payla of the Philippines.
He then qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the 1st Olympic qualifying event in Pescara, Italy, where he stopped team mate Mo Nasir of Wales and then went on to beat the 2004 Olympian Igor Samolencko of Moldova to qualify. He then pulled out of the final due to injury.
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