Ramla Ali has signed a multi-fight promotional deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing and will make her highly-anticipated professional debut in October subject to licensing.
Signed to unified heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua’s 258 management label, Ali is trained by her husband Richard Moore and Jobi Clayton at the BoxClever Gym in Ladbroke Grove, London, and will compete at super-bantamweight.
Ali’s family fled war-torn Somalia as refugees after her brother had already been killed. Settling in London, she initially kept her boxing training a secret for fear her family would disapprove of the pastime for a Muslim girl.