Bakhodir Jalolov

Bakhodir Isomiddin ugli Jalolov was born on 8 July 1994 in the Sariosiyo district of the Surkhandarya region. He is 201 cm tall and fights southpaw. He first wanted to play football, but at 11 his father, a former wrestler, took him to a sports school and steered him towards boxing. He has competed since 2010 and is a member of the Uzbekistan national team (coach Tulkin Kilichev).

As an amateur he took bronze at the 2015 World Championships in Doha and reached the quarter-finals at Rio 2016. He was Asian champion in 2017, 2019 and 2021 and world champion in Yekaterinburg in 2019. At Tokyo 2020, played in 2021, he won Olympic gold, beating Frazer Clarke in the semi-final and Richard Torrez in the final.

In 2022 he won the Asian Games in Hangzhou and in 2023 the IBA World Championships in Tashkent. At the 2024 Paris Olympics he won every bout by unanimous decision to become a two-time Olympic champion, and afterwards announced his retirement from Olympic boxing. He was Uzbekistan's flag bearer at the opening ceremonies in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

He made his professional debut on 5 May 2018, beating Hugo Trujillo by TKO. In April 2019 he won the vacant WBC-NABF Junior heavyweight title. As of May 2026 he has 18 fights and 18 wins (most by knockout); his latest bout was a seventh-round win over Agron Smakici in Manchester on 9 May 2026.