Ali Raymi facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ali Raymi علي الريمي
Raymi in 2013
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Real name	Ali Ibrahim Ali Al-Raimi
Nickname(s)	God TGE (The Greatest Ever)
Rated at	Minimumweight Light-flyweight Flyweight
Reach	68 in
Nationality	Yemeni
Born	(1973-12-07)7 December 1973 Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Died	23 May 2015(2015-05-23) (aged 41) Sana'a, Yemen
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	25
Wins	25
Wins by KO	25

Ali Raymi
Colonel Ali Raymi, 2015
Military service
Allegiance	Yemen
Branch/service	Yemen Army
Years of service	1991–2015
Rank	Colonel
Unit	3rd Armored Brigade, RG
Commands	Reserve Forces
Battles/wars	First Battle of Lawdar Operation Blow to the Head Battle of Zinjibar Battle of Huta 2012 Abyan offensive Second Battle of Lawdar 2014 hostage rescue Battle of Radda

Ali Raymi (born Ali Ibrahim Ali Al-Raimi; Arabic: علي الريمي; 7 December 1973 – 23 May 2015) was a Yemeni colonel and professional boxer. In boxing he is best known for his fight record of 25 wins and no losses, with all 25 wins by knockout; 22 in the first round.

Raymi lived in Mecca prior to 1991. He died in an explosion, possibly an airstrike on the Republican Guard positions in Al-Nahdeen district, on 23 May 2015 in Sana'a, aged 41.

Personal life

Ali Raymi won a gold medal in Algeria for the Yemeni military, representing the amateur boxing team, his purported amateur record was 117–2, all by way of knockout, although there is no proof of this record. Stories of Raymi's life including his military career were released by his manager Felix J Arno in an interview with The Ring magazine managing editor Brian Harty.

Boxing career

Yemeni News archives show Raymi started boxing at the age of 30 representing the Yemeni military, compiling an amateur record of 117-2, winning all 117 by KO which many believe to be embellished. He was a Yemeni amateur champion in 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007. It was during this time that Ali Raymi started breaking Yemeni cultural norms by challenging foreign fighters, and participating in private unsanctioned fights for the next 3 years. Raymi grew to have a reputation in Sana'a as a loose cannon.

On 11 November 2013, he set a new world record by winning his first 20 fights as a professional by first-round knockout.

Prince Maz 2014 tetralogy

Prince Maz was the first fighter to extend Ali Raymi outside the first round, repeating the feat in three out of four encounters

• RTD1, 2014-07-17
• TKO7, 2014-08-30
• RTD9, 2014-10-16
• TKO2, 2014-11-19

Death

Ali Raymi a Colonel in the Yemeni Anti-Terrorism forces was killed in an explosion in 23 May 2015.

Postmortem ranking

In December 2013, Raymi was ranked in the top ten by two major boxing sanctioning bodies: seventh by the WBO and ninth by the WBC. Additionally, the IBO had ranked him number one in August 2014, while the WBO improved his ranking to sixth in January 2015, as did the WBA in May 2015. Raymi also offered $100,000 to then-WBA and IBO strawweight champion Hekkie Budler for a fight in Yemen. The WBA ranked Raymi as #6 light flyweight in April 2015 and only dropped him five ranking spots to eleventh place when he died.

Dan Rafael, senior boxing writer at ESPN, criticized the organization for the "utterly and absolutely indefensible" ranking situation. He explained, commenting that Raymi's record was "hollow... considering he fought absolutely nobody of remote recognition or accomplishment as he fashioned that glittering but meaningless mark..."

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