{"id":105654,"date":"2026-11-10T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=105654"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:55:48","slug":"ramla-ali-wins-first-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/ramla-ali-wins-first-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramla Ali wins first world title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON<br \/>\nBritish-Somali \u200bboxer Ramla Ali captured her first world title at the age of 37 \u200cwith a split-decision victory over American Mikiah Kreps to claim \u200cthe vacant WBO and IBF \u200bjunior featherweight belts \u200bon Sunday \u200cin Arlington, Texas.<br \/>\nAli secured \u200bthe win despite being outlanded 115-78 overall and trailing 91-70 in power punches, with Kreps landing more shots \u200cin 8 of the 10 rounds.<br \/>\nAli knocked Kreps down in the third round with a right hook but was \u200bforced onto \u200cthe back foot thereafter as the American responded strongly.<br \/>\nThe judges were split, however, with two scoring the bout 97-92 and 96-93 for Ali to hand her the world titles despite the third judge scoring the bout 98-91 for Kreps.<br \/>\nAli settled in London as a refugee after fleeing Somalia\u2019s civil war with her family and was the first Somali boxer to compete at the Olympic \u200bGames, representing Somalia at Tokyo 2020.<br \/>\nShe later became the first Muslim woman to win an English amateur \u200bboxing title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON British-Somali \u200bboxer Ramla Ali captured her first world title at the age of 37 \u200cwith a split-decision victory over American Mikiah Kreps to claim \u200cthe vacant WBO and IBF \u200bjunior featherweight belts \u200bon Sunday \u200cin Arlington, Texas. Ali secured \u200bthe win despite being outlanded 115-78 overall and trailing 91-70 in power punches, with Kreps &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":105663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105670,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105654\/revisions\/105670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}