Suppose They Gave Two Featherfisted Wars & Nobody Came: Ijaz Ahmed vs. Quaise Khademi 1 & 2.

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  1. CST80

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    Sadly these two, Ijaz Ahmed, a Brit of Pakistani descent, and Quaise Khademi, an Afghan born in wartorn Kabul, who relocated to the UK, because they didn't have a ton of hype or a huge promotion machine behind them, spent the majority of their careers off camera, however that changed with their first fight. It was the both time either of them had a match of theirs televised, and goddamn they made it count. While not FOTY caliber, it was definitely a fun scrap. However, it ended in controversy, so they decided to run it back a few months later, and these two knowing each other quite well at this point, went balls to the walls, and left it all in the ring, producing a low level 2021 FOTY contender, and beat the living hell out of each other, even though neither have much power, they were throwing with all their might and managed to stun one another a time or two.Unfortunately, I think it was only broadcast on YouTube. So please... do yourselves a favor, and check out these two sadly underseen, virtually unknown fights.


    Quaise Khademi vs Ijaz Ahmed 10 Rounds @ Super Flyweight

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    Round 1 Ahmed 10-9

    Non stop movement from Khademi, looking for counters off the backfoot. Landing sometimes in combination, but Ahmed closing the distance very well, and out landing him, also in combination.

    Round 2 Ahmed 10-9

    Khademi much sharper to begin the round, landing an authoritative jab, and countering well, but ahmed amps up the pressure, starts going to the body, doubling up on the left hook and a sharp right cross up top.

    Round 3 Khademi 10-9

    Khademi far more active and accurate off the backfoot. He's doubling up the jab and landing one twos and in combination, also going to the body, sitting down on his shots now. Ahmed far more tentative and apprehensive in his attacks.

    Round 4 Khademi 10-9

    Khademi switching stances a little more fluidly now, landing two pieces out of both orthodox and southpaw. Ahmed looking a little befuddled, and is always just out of range. Khademi takes the round with relative ease, but Ahmed with the non stop pressure.

    Round 5 Khademi 10-9

    Very close round, Khademi starts off quite well, landing the sharper combos, still controlling range, Ahmed continually falling short. But the steady pressure starts getting to Khademi in the last minute, with Ahmed landing some solid body shots late, almost enough to steal it.

    Round 6 Ahmed 10-9

    While still walking into countless counters, Ahmed seems to have Khademi's timing worked out a little now, and he's getting inside and timing him well, landing lunging rights and left hooks, one even managed to shake up Khademi late, good bounce back round for Ijaz.

    Round 7 Khademi 10-9

    Good bounce back for Khademi, Ahmed got a little too reckless too many times, and paid for it through the round, with his head being flown by jabs out of both stances, and walking into sharp counter hooks, Ahmed seemingly feeling the pace late, backed off, adn Khademi started bringing the pressure and was landing.

    Round 8 Khademi 10-9

    Khademi took the 8th with relative ease, taking Ahmed to slick school the vast majority of it. Ahmed always just out of range and falling short. Khademi's counters weren't all that effective, but Ahmed landed far too little clean to even have an argument.

    Round 9 Khademi 10-9

    Ahmed looking a little lost, disheartened and befuddled, he can never seem to find his elusive target, Khademi always just one step ahead of him, now that the pressure has dropped off, Ahmed is a far easier target, although Khademi not willing to press the action either. Khademi seemed to hurt him a little late.

    Round 10 Khademi 10-9

    Ahmed going all out, then Khademi hits him with a low blow, the ref gives him a second or two to wak it off, action resumes. Again, similar pattern from the last few, Ahmed going all out, yet falling short in most exchanges, the far slicker Khademi is just that little it too slippery for him.

    97-93 Khademi

    Official cards:
    Michael Alexander 96-95
    Howard Foster 95-95
    Bob Williams 96-94

    MD for Ahmed

    Predictably corrupt cards for the home fighter.







    Here comes the rematch, can Quaise Khademi get his revenge?
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    Ijaz Ahmed vs. Quaise Khademi II 12 Rounds @ Super Flyweight


    Round 1 Khademi 10-9

    All out war, Khamedi isn't running this time, he comes right out, plants his feet in the middle of the ring, and starts throwing bombs. Unleashing 4 and 5 punch combos to the head of Ahmed, right down the middle, mixing in uppercuts and body shots along the way, even managing to stun Ahmed in the first 30 seconds. But Ahmed starts warming to it, and mounts a comeback giving almost as good as he's getting in teh second half, but not quite enough.

    Round 2 Khademi 10-9

    The war continues into the second, with Ahmed bringing the pressure non stop, and unloading, but his clubbing hooks are mostly landing on teh arms, while Khademi's compact one twos down the middle are far straighter and far more precise, that pattern continued throughout the round, almost equal punches landed, but Khademi's the more eye catching.

    Round 3 Khademi 10-9

    Much better from Ahmed, his pressure was relentless, but Khademi's counters were still sharper, and his work cleaner, especially his counter left hooks to the head and gut, that seemed to never miss. Ahmed gave it his all, and came close, but was a little too inaccurate to nick it.

    Round 4 Ahmed 10-9

    Excellent round by Ijaz, finally he found the proper range, just enough to slip Khademi's counters. Ahmed's head movement much better, putput far greater and accuracy far sharper. He easily outworked Khademi, and landed some real eye catching hooks up top.

    Round 5 Ahmed 10-9

    Khademi starts well, behind the jab, landing some decent counters, but the pressure of Ahmed starts getting to him rather quickly. Ahmed now coming forward, unloading punches in bunches, not all landing clean, but they're landing. Late in the round Ahmed lands a nasty left hook, that buckles Khademi, Ijaz follows up, and lands several more hooks to the head. Khademi recovers.

    Round 6 Ahmed 10-9

    Third strong Ahmed round in a row, he clearly has the momentum, he's working him with the jab now, closing the distance much better, and when he gets inside, he's landing sustained barrages to the body, then pulls out, clipping him with uppercuts and hooks up top.

    Round 7 Khademi 10-9

    The monster effort from Ahmed took its toll in the 7th, Khademi back in charge, after making the proper adjustments. He's on the backfoot again, controlling range much better, landing flashy one twos down the middle from the outside, from both stances, which he's switching between fluidly. khademi nailed him with some heavy shots in the last minute, clean.

    Round 8 Khademi 10-9

    He stayed a southpaw through the whole round and gave Ahmed a ton of problems, he fell short with almost everything he threw. Khademi stayed on the outside, slipping flurries and countering with one two consistently.

    Round 9 Ahmed 10-9

    Ijaz narrowly nicks a razor close 9th, his pressure and increase in output combined with khademi's drop in output. Even though he missed a lot, and Khademi landed a lot. It all evened out in the end, with Ijaz outworking him by a hair.

    Round 10 Ahmed 10-9

    Another pretty good round from Ijaz, as he opens up a cut over the right eye of Khademi, he goes all out afterward, marching forward, landing hooks tp the head, a few eye catching, Khademi firing back counters, catching him with seeral, but the volume from Ijaz was just too much, even though he started looking tired towards the end.

    Round 11 Ahmed 10-9

    Another razor close hard to split round, with Ijaz doing the better work on the frontfoot and Khademi doing the better work on the backfoot. Although I think Ijaz landed the heavier blows, including several counter left hooks clean.

    Round 12 Khademi 10-9

    Ahmed looking gassed, but still going all out, trying to walk down Khademi, who isn't backing up anymore, instead he's taking the fight to Ijaz, landing nasty combos, pivoting out, resetting and doing it again. Then going on the backfoot, then back on the front, Khademi is befuddling him and landing a ton of counters this round, even a few that slightly buckled Ijaz midway. But Ijaz is undeterred, and still marching forward late, but easily got outworked in the 12th.

    Brilliant fight!

    114-114

    If I had to pick a winner, I'd go with Khademi. Khademi cae closer to winning the Ahmed round than the other way around.

    Official cards:
    Ian John-Lewis 115-113 Ahmed
    John Latham 114-115 Khademi
    Marcus McDonnell 114-114

    Split Draw





    Bring on Part 3:ggg:ggg:ggg:ggg

    And this time..... they're the co-headliner, like they should be.:deal:

    It'll be a part of the Marc Leach vs. Liam Davies undercard on June 11th.
     
  2. CST80

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    Both of these guys are really likable and easy to root for, it's touching the see the amount of respect they have for each other after the second fight. Not sure what their ceiling is, but hopefully they can both get their hands on a regional title. Khademi's got a hell of a life story.
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  4. pincai

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    This is a **** fight to predict.. that’s all I can say
     
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  5. pincai

    pincai The Indonesian Thin Man Full Member

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    Ok I lied.. I’ll say one more thing.. although I prefer Khademi’s style more and seems to be the more talented boxer.. but I think Ahmed knows how to fight him.. so expect another controversial close fight where both think they win.
     
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  6. CST80

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    I'd been meaning to get around to checking both matches out, so after I added the third one to the schedule, that gave me the proper motivation. After watching them both back to back.... I'm started to rethink that addition. The mere thought of picking a winner in the third, provokes this kind of reaction in me.:sisi1
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    :risas3:
     
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  8. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Will have a looksee - idk when honestly, work's kicking my ass. But soon ..ish. :sisi1
     
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  9. Manu Vatuvei

    Manu Vatuvei Active Member Full Member

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    Decent player in his time Ijaz Ahmed, did unusually well against Australia

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  10. sasto

    sasto Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Nice, thanks for the heads up for a fight that deserves it!
     
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  11. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Round 1 - 10-9 black waistband (Khademi) -- fluid and busy early, but it gets competitive as it goes on.
    Round 2 - 10-9 white waistband (Ahmed), 19-19 -- just too many stereo hooks to body and head, overwhelming the Afghan for stretches. Good work but not enough from Quaise.
    Round 3 - 10-9 black waistband (Khademi), very close, 29-28 Khademi -- the jab up top and gutterball right downstairs help lift Khademi over the still frenetic Pakistani-Brummie bombardier.
    Round 4 - 10-9 white waistband (Ahmed), 38-38 -- good inside uppercuts making the difference.

    (watched the first third of the fight earlier on my phone walking home, plugged in the names after determing who is whom on my flatscreen)

    Round 5 - 10-9 Ahmed, 48-47 Ahmed -- buzzed Khademi late, outworked him throughout.
    Round 6 - 10-9 Ahmed, 58-56 Ahmed -- hithero more the brawler and reliant on heavy power shots in bunches, Ahmed unfurling an educated jab here. Khademi seems a little taken aback that he's actually getting outboxed a bit. Ahmed takes advantage of the deer in the headlights signifier and pounces to pummel him with overhands and body slaps.
    Round 7 - 10-9 Khademi, 67-66 Ahmed -- nice comeback after losing three on the spin. Order has been restored in the universe, as Khademi now winning the jab battle once more. :sisi1 Controlling range well, moving and countering. Ahmed slightly punched out.
    Round 8 - 10-9 Khademi, 76-76 -- turning southpaw, using lots of twitching and diagonal bowing feints to completely stunt Ahmed's rhythm, countering with jabs and sneaky crosses on the midsection.
    Round 9 - 10-9 Ahmed, 86-85 Ahmed -- walking through right jabs & check hooks and shoving in corkscrew rights hands. Far more solid contact and ring generalship to Jazzy.
    Round 10 - 10-9 Ahmed, 96-94 Ahmed -- worsening the cut that may have been from a head clash earlier, pumping out high strong jabs and falling in with level changes and body hooks followed by strappers on the jaw. Khademi standing his ground in spots with desperation flurries, but can't seize control.
    Round 11 - 10-9 Ahmed, super close, 106-103 Ahmed -- getting parried and countered with straight rights but keeps trudging in, whipping hooks in multiples. Ugly stuff as they both tire, a few clinches and headlocks. Khademi turns southpaw and scores right jabs effectively while playing matador stepping laterally in the pocket.
    Round 12 - 10-9 Khademi, 115-113 Ahmed -- really smooth defense from Khademi for this being a twelfth round and considering the pace thus far. Ahmed can't hit a spitoon in his lap right now, but still trying, slugging away. Khademi doing just enough, jogging around, reining up short, jabbing, holding. Finishes with a nice counter uppercut.

    Same card as one judge. Why'd it have to be IJL, though? :confused:

    I'm kind of pulling for Khademi on Saturday if only because that would on paper necessitate a fourth tiebreaker match for what then would be a 1-1-1 deadlock. I'd happily watch these guys spend the rest of their careers fighting a best of ten series.

    Why the hell did it take FW ten months to run this back for the BBBofC super fly title, anyway? :thinking: It had already been nearly two years since it was last contested (Edwards vs. Braithwaite) last time. Also, who the hell are Marc Leach and Liam Davies and why are they headlining over this?
     
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  12. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    It's tough...on the one hand, after 22 rounds, Quaise has literally all the data he needs to solve for X downloaded. He's the smarter neater boxer and better mover, and while his chin may or may not actually be iron, he can definitely take all of his featherfisted rival's best stuff - at least up to a point (that point being 5-6 flush bombs in a row in quick succession; beyond that is unknown). The problem is that he goes on vacation mentally, doesn't have the stamina to sustain his movement for more than a couple of rounds at once, and has the bad habit of leaving his jaw hanging out and spine erect to make a predictable hook-magnet target of himself when getting his straight punches off.

    Ahmed is riddled with issues himself, of course - he overcommitts to power salvos before fully in range, takes "use offense as your defense" to a ridiculous extreme, and has spotty conditioning himself yet stubbornly insists on setting a pace like he's prime Ricky Hatton.

    All in all, they could do this eight more times and easily wind up 4-4-2. :sisi1
     
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  13. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Oh man, for me the highlight of this card might actually be neither Ahmed vs. Khademi III nor Leach vs. Davies, but the potential of hype job Willy Hutchinson copping his second consecutive stoppage loss at the heavy hands of tough badass Czech journeyman Karel Hořejšek. That would be a hilarious banana peel of rebound matchmaking. :risas3:
     
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  14. CST80

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    Thanks for giving it a watch, I had a feeling you'd enjoy it. And yeah, I'm expecting nothing different this Saturday, I highly doubt there'll be some shocking out of nowhere KO, and if that doesn't occur, I think Khademi might build on what he did in the last fight, and maybe work on upping his output just a hair, that's all it would've taken. But I'm kind of hoping for another draw, so these two can remain trapped in each other's vortex for the remainder of their careers.:sisi1
     
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  15. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Boxing owes us this for making us sit through all those Franco vs. Negretes. :deal:
     
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