Ramla Ali
Ramla Ali | |||||||||||
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Born | Mogadishu, Somalia | ||||||||||
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Occupation | Boxer, model | ||||||||||
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Weight(s) | Featherweight | ||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | ||||||||||
Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||
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Total fights | 3 | ||||||||||
Wins | 3 | ||||||||||
Wins by KO | 0 | ||||||||||
Losses | 0 |
Ramla Said Ahmed Ali (Arabic: رملا علي) is a Somali professional boxer, model, author and racial equality activist. She is the first Somali boxer in history to compete at the Olympic Games and the first female to become a professional boxer.
Biography[]
As an amateur, she won the 2015 Novice national championships in England, the 2016 England Boxing Elite National Championships, the 2016 Great British Championships,[3][failed verification] and the 2019 African Zone featherweight title. She is the first male or female to have won an African boxing title and international gold medals whilst representing Somalia.[citation needed] She moved to England from Somalia as a war refugee and[4] started boxing as a teenager in an effort to lose weight. She has since helped set up Somalia's boxing federation in Mogadishu and became the first boxer in history to have represented Somalia in the Women's World Championships, which was held in New Delhi, India. In January 2018 Ramla launched The Sisters Club, a charitable initiative focused on creating more spaces for black and ethnic religious female minorities to participate in sport in the U.K.
Represented by IMG Models, Ramla has appeared on the front cover of British Vogue, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Guardian Observer, Wonderland, ELLE, The Square Mile, The Week, Beauty Papers, ES Magazine, Swiss Style, M Milenio Magazine, Exit Magazine and Puss Puss Magazine and been photographed for publications Time Magazine, Spanish Vogue, NY T Magazine, Sunday Times Style, Twin, Times Luxx, Gentlewoman & Conde Nast, . She is a global brand ambassador with Nike & Cartier.
Ramla's debut novel 'Not Without A Fight' which is a self help book based on ten of the most important fights in her life is published by Merky Books & Penguin Random House. It has also been announced that Academy Award nominated, BAFTA winning producer Lee Magiday alongside Film4 will be making a feature-length drama based on the life story of Ramla Ali.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]In 2021, she competed in the women's featherweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics to become the first boxer ever to represent Somalia on the Olympic stage.[12]
Honours[]
She was one of fifteen women selected to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue, by guest editor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.[13]
Professional boxing record[]
3 fights | 3 wins | 0 losses |
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By decision | 3 | 0 |
No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
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3 | Win | 3–0 | UD | 6 | 29 May 2021 | |||
2 | Win | 2–0 | Bec Connolly | PTS | 6 | 20 Mar 2021 | The SSE Arena, London, England | |
1 | Win | 1–0 | Eva Hubmayer | PTS | 6 | 31 Oct 2020 | The SSE Arena, London, England |
References[]
- ^ "Ramla Said Ali - Model".
- ^ "Boxing record for Ramla Ali". BoxRec.
- ^ "Meet Ramla Ali - The First British Female Muslim Boxing Champion". HuffPost. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ "Somalian refugee finds success in the ring - CNN Video". CNN. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ Vasco Cotovio; Salma Abdelaziz. "The refugee boxer tearing down barriers". CNN. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ "The Shortlist - The Muslim News". Muslimnews.co.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ "We Are All Equal In Boxing". theguardian.com. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ "My Secret Life As A Boxing Champion". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ Kay, Jeremy (8 September 2019). "Sleeper Film, Curate Films line up Somali boxing champion drama 'In The Shadows'". Screen. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ Ritman, Alex (8 September 2019). "Toronto: 'The Favourite' Producer Punches Up Boxing Biopic 'In the Shadows'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (8 September 2019). "'The Favourite' Producer Lee Magiday Set To Make Film4 Pic 'In The Shadows' About Somali British Female Boxing Champ Ramla Ali". Deadline. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ "Podcast: The Somali who kept boxing secret from her family". Olympics. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Meghan Markle puts Sinéad Burke on the cover of Vogue's September issue". The Irish Times. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- Living people
- Somalian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- British women boxers
- Featherweight boxers
- Somalian sportswomen
- Sportspeople from Mogadishu
- Somalian martial artists
- Olympic boxers of Somalia
- Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Somalian sportspeople stubs
- British boxing biography stubs