Mourad Aliev

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Mourad Aliev
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born (1995-07-31) July 31, 1995 (age 30)
Moscow, Russia
Height2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) [1]
Weight Super-heavyweight
Boxing career
Stance Southpaw [2]
Boxing record [3]
Total fights7
Wins7
Win by KO5
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing Flag of France.svg  France
European Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Minsk Super-heavyweight

Mourad Aliev (born 31 July 1995) [4] is a French professional boxer. As an amateur he won a silver medal at the 2019 European Games. While representing France at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aliev was disqualified from his quarterfinal bout. [5] [6]

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Early life

Born in Moscow, Russia, and of Azerbaijani descent, [7] Aliev moved to France at the age of six as a political refugee and became a naturalised French citizen at the age of 22. [8]

Amateur career

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Aliev was disqualified in his bout against Frazer Clarke due to a head-butt. As soon as the decision was announced in the ring, Aliev had denounced an injustice. Later, the supervisor certified an error in refereeing and said that there is no error on the part of Aliev, but the decision can not be modified. [9] [10] [11] Aliev staged a sit-in protest for an hour, [12] [6] after punching the ringside camera. [13] Both actual and former French National Olympic and Sports Committee presidents supported Aliev against what they consider being an injustice. [9]

Professional career

Aliev made his professional debut on 20 November 2021, scoring a four-round unanimous decision (UD) victory against German Skobenko at the Universum Gym in Hamburg, Germany. [14]

On 7 June 2025, Mourad Aliev suffered his first loss as a professional boxer against Kosovan boxer Labinot Xhoxhaj at the Universum Gym in Hamburg, Germany. The bout was scored as a unanimous decision victory for Xhoxhaj, with the judges scoring the fight 115-113, 115-112, 114-113 in favour of Xhoxhaj. [15]

Professional boxing record

14 fights13 wins1 loss
By knockout100
By decision31
No.ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes
14Loss13-1Labinot XhoxhajUD12 (12)June 7, 2025

Universum Gym, Hamburg, Germany

For WBC International Silver Heavyweight Title & EBU European Heavyweight Title
13Win13-0Davide BritoTKO6 (10)Dec 12, 2024

Grand Elysée, Rotherbaum, Germany

Won WBC International Silver Heavyweight Title
12Win12-0Luis Jose Marin GarciaRTD2 (8)Sep 7, 2024

Motorworld, Cologne, Germany

11Win11-0Dilan PrasovicTKO3 (10)May 11, 2024

Motorworld, Cologne, Germany

Won WBC International Silver Heavyweight Title
10Win10-0Awadh TamimTKO3 (8)Jan 27, 2024

Motorworld, Cologne, Germany

9Win9-0Daso SimeunovicTKO3 (8) 0:20Dec 17, 2023

Universum Gym, Hamburg, Germany

8Win8-0Evgenios LazaridisUD12Sep 30, 2023

Harzlandhalle, Ilsenburg, Germany

7Win7-0Ali KiydinTKO9 (10)Feb 04, 2023

Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Won WBC International Silver Heavyweight Title
6Win6-0

Yakup Saglam

KO5 (10) 0:26Nov 05, 2022 Rudolf Weber-Arena, Oberhausen, GermanyWon WBC Mediterranean Heavyweight Title
5Win5-0

Dzemal Bosnjak

KO6 (8) 3:00Sep 24, 2022 No Limit Boxing, Leverkusen, Germany
4Win4–0Mirko TintorTKO2 (8), 2:1214 May 2022 BJK Akatlar Arena, Istanbul, Turkey
3Win3–0Milos VeleticUD619 Mar 2022 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
2Win2–0Dorde TomicTKO2 (6) 0:4019 Feb 2022Universum Gym, Hamburg, Germany
1Win1–0German SkobenkoUD410 Nov 2021Universum Gym, Hamburg, Germany

Personal life

His father, Ozer, was also an amateur boxer, representing the USSR. [16]

References

  1. "BoxRec: Mourad Aliev". BoxRec . Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  2. "Ferreira and Romeu shined on the first day at the Cologne Boxing World Cup". AIBA . 12 March 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  3. "Boxing record for Mourad Aliev". BoxRec .
  4. "Boxing ALIEV Mourad - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympics. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  5. French boxer sits in protest after being disqualified from Olympics over head butt France24, 1 August 2021
  6. 1 2 French boxer stages ringside protest after 'headbutt' disqualification loss against Britain's Frazer Clarke Pippa Field, The Telegraph, 1 August 2021
  7. Media.Az. "Представляющий Францию азербайджанец завоевал олимпийскую лицензию - ВИДЕО". media.az (in Russian). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  8. Laronche, Romain (15 June 2021). ""Ramener une médaille à Nice", le rêve du boxeur Mourad Aliev aux Jeux olympiques - Nice-Matin". Nice-Matin (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  9. 1 2 franceinfo: sport, France Télévision, ed. (1 August 2021). ""JO 2021 - Boxe: la délégation française va contester la disqualification litigieuse de Mourad Aliev devant le TAS"".
  10. AFP (1 August 2021). LaLibre (ed.). ""Le boxeur français Mourad Aliev, disqualifié par erreur aux JO, n'en revient pas: "C'est injuste, tout le monde a vu que j'ai gagné"'".
  11. Séphanie Trouillard (1 August 2021). ""Tokyo 2021: les boxeurs français et l'arbitrage, une malédiction aux JO ?"". France24.
  12. Olympics-Boxing-France's Aliev protests with sit-in after disqualification Chang-ran Kim, Reuters, August 1, 2021
  13. A French Olympic boxer punched a TV camera and sat in the ring for an hour to protest his disqualification Insider, Sinéad Baker, August 1, 2021
  14. Litti, Jacek (20 November 2021). "Box-Gala in Hamburg: Ergebnisse Undercard mit Aliev, Kiwitt & Co". Boxen1 (in German). Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  15. heavyweightboxing.com (15 June 2025). "Labinot Xhoxhaj Defeats Mourad Aliev to Retain European Title". heavyweightboxing. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
  16. Maury, Morgan (28 March 2019). "Jeux européens: Mourad Aliev, le poids lourds français venu du froid". RMC Sport (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2021.