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

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

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

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

 

@IntentionalButt @George Crowcroft @PinoyProdigy @Drew101 I'd like to hear what you guys score these two matches. If you only want to do one, make it the second. That one is a scoring nightmare.

 

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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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.

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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.