Zulfikar Joy Ali (22 December 1978 – 5 January 2015) was a

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an boxer. He had won 31 boxing matches in his career.

Boxing career

In 1995, Ali's first reported boxing match was against Raven, whom he defeated in the fourth round by a KO at the National Indoor Stadium,

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, boxrec.com; accessed 5 January 2015. He won the vacant

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(PABA) light middleweight title against the former World Amateur bronze medalist Ercüment Aslan of Turkey.

Personal life

Ali was a very religious person and followed the

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ic faith. He sold razor blades with his younger brother to start off his boxing career. Ali died on 5 January 2015, aged 36, at the CWM Hospital in

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. His death was a suicide. Ali is survived by his wife and three children.

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