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Joy Ali

Died
January 5, 2015
Age
36 years
Cause
suicide

About Joy Ali

Joy Ali, 36, Fijian middleweight boxer, suicide.

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Zulfikar Joy Ali (22 December 1978 – 5 January 2015) was a Fijian 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, Suva, Fiji. He won the vacant Pan Asian Boxing Association (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 Islamic 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 Suva. His death was a suicide. Ali was survived by his wife and three children.

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