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Total Fights | 29 |
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Wins | 27 |
Losses | 2 |
Draws | 0 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 1 |
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Title Defenses | 4 |
Title-Fight KOs | 0 |
KO Wins | 15 |
KO Losses | 1 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning 11 years and four months, Kal Yafai fought 29 times with 27 wins and 2 losses.
Yafai retired from professional boxing with a record of 27-2, which included one super-flyweight world-title win and four successful title defense fights. He had a 51.7% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 15 of his total 29 fights being knockout wins. The only knockout loss in Yafai's career was a 9th round TKO loss to Román González in a super-flyweight title fight.
His latest fight was a 12-round unanimous decision defeat to Jonathan Rodriguez on November 18, 2023.
Some of Yafai's best fights and notable victories include wins over David Carmona, Luis Concepción, Norbelto Jimenez, Israel González, Suguru Muranaka, Dixon Flores, and Sho Ishida.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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29 | Nov 18, 2023 | 34 | Jonathan Rodriguez | Loss | UD |
28 | Nov 5, 2022 | 33 | Jerald Paclar | Win | UD |
27 | Feb 29, 2020 | 30 | Román González | Loss * | TKO9 |
26 | Jun 29, 2019 | 30 | Norbelto Jimenez | Win * | UD |
25 | Nov 24, 2018 | 29 | Israel González | Win * | UD |
24 | May 26, 2018 | 28 | David Carmona | Win | RTD7 |
23 | Oct 28, 2017 | 28 | Sho Ishida | Win * | UD |
22 | May 13, 2017 | 27 | Suguru Muranaka | Win * | UD |
21 | Dec 10, 2016 | 27 | Luis Concepción | Win * | UD |
20 | Oct 22, 2016 | 27 | Johnson Tellez | Win | TKO3 |
19 | Jun 25, 2016 | 27 | Jozsef Ajtai | Win | TKO1 |
18 | Mar 5, 2016 | 26 | Dixon Flores | Win | KO1 |
17 | Oct 17, 2015 | 26 | Jason Cunningham | Win | UD |
16 | Sep 5, 2015 | 26 | Aron Juarez | Win | KO1 |
15 | May 9, 2015 | 25 | Isaac Quaye | Win | TKO1 |
14 | Mar 28, 2015 | 25 | Cristofer Rosales | Win | PTS |
13 | Nov 15, 2014 | 25 | Everth Briceno | Win | UD |
12 | Sep 20, 2014 | 25 | Herald Molina | Win | KO2 |
11 | May 21, 2014 | 24 | Yaqub Kareem | Win | KO3 |
10 | Dec 14, 2013 | 24 | Ashley Lane | Win | TKO4 |
9 | Oct 26, 2013 | 24 | Santiago Bustos | Win | PTS |
8 | Mar 30, 2013 | 23 | Michael Ramabeletsa | Win | PTS |
7 | Jan 19, 2013 | 23 | Gonzalo Garcia | Win | RTD4 |
6 | Dec 8, 2012 | 23 | Jorge Perez | Win | TKO3 |
5 | Nov 17, 2012 | 23 | Pio Antonio Nettuno | Win | KO1 |
4 | Oct 20, 2012 | 23 | Scott Gladwin | Win | TKO2 |
3 | Sep 22, 2012 | 23 | Victor Koh | Win | PTS |
2 | Sep 8, 2012 | 23 | Richard Voros | Win | TKO1 |
1 | Jul 7, 2012 | 23 | Delroy Spencer | Win | RTD2 |
* World-title fight
Khalid Yafai (Kal) is a 34-year old retired British professional boxer. He was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, England on June 11, 1989. He is a former super-flyweight world champion. His professional boxing career spanned more than 11 years — from 2012 to 2023.
Yafai made his professional boxing debut against Delroy Spencer at the age of 23 on July 7, 2012, defeating Spencer via 2nd round RTD. He went on to win 25 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 14 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 27 on December 10, 2016 after 20 professional fights, against Luis Concepción for the super-flyweight WBA (vacant) title. He defeated Concepción via 12 round unanimous decision to become the super-flyweight champion of the world.
Yafai has won one world title at super-flyweight. For all the details about Yafai's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Yafai had a total of two losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a non-title bout against Jonathan Rodriguez on November 18, 2023. Yafai lost the fight via 12 round unanimous decision. It's been 4 months and 10 days since this fight.
Yafai had a total of six world-title fights, which includes winning one world title and four successful title defenses. He won five of these fights and lost one.
Kal Yafai fought for a super-flyweight world title once, which he won via unanimous decision. He won one super-flyweight belt.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Dec 10, 2016 | Luis Concepción | Super-flyweight | WBA* | UD |
Kal Yafai had five super-flyweight world-title defense fights. He won four of them and lost once.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Jun 29, 2019 | Norbelto Jimenez | Super-flyweight | WBA | UD |
Nov 24, 2018 | Israel González | Super-flyweight | WBA | UD |
Oct 28, 2017 | Sho Ishida | Super-flyweight | WBA | UD |
May 13, 2017 | Suguru Muranaka | Super-flyweight | WBA | UD |
Kal Yafai lost one world-title defense fight, and lost one title in the fight.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Feb 29, 2020 | Román González | Super-flyweight | WBA | TKO |
Yafai fought a total of 29 times during his professional career, which includes 6 world-title fights at the super-flyweight division. These five fights are the highlight of his career.
December 10, 2016: Yafai wins his first world title by defeating Luis Concepción via 12 round unanimous decision. He is now the WBA super-flyweight world champion.
October 28, 2017: Yafai successfully defends the WBA super-flyweight title against Sho Ishida, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.
May 26, 2018: Kal Yafai beats David Carmona via 7th round RTD.
November 24, 2018: Yafai successfully defends the WBA super-flyweight title against Israel González, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.
June 29, 2019: Yafai successfully defends the WBA super-flyweight title against Norbelto Jimenez, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.
Yafai knocked out 15 of his 29 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 51.7%. Of his total 27 wins, 15 of them were via KO (55.6%).
Yafai's first world-title win was the WBA (vacant) belt at super-flyweight. He defeated Luis Concepción via 12 round unanimous decision to win the title.
Yafai won one world title at super-flyweight.
Yafai had a total of five title defense fights. He was successful four times and lost one time.