Murodjon Akhmadaliev

Murodjon Kakharovich Akhmadaliev was born on 2 November 1994 in Chust, Namangan Region. His father took him into boxing; he trained at sports school No. 27 in Chust under his first coach Tulkin Kilichev. In 2017 he graduated from the martial arts faculty of the Uzbek State Institute of Physical Culture. He is a southpaw, 166 cm tall.

As an amateur he won silver at the 2012 world junior championships (Yerevan, 49 kg) and became Uzbek champion in 2013 and 2014. In 2015 he took silver at the World Championships in Doha (bantamweight) and at the Asian Championships in Bangkok. At the 2016 Rio Olympics he won bronze at bantamweight (losing the semi-final to Cuba's Robeisy Ramírez) and in 2017 won the Asian Championships in Tashkent.

He turned professional after 2017, debuting on 10 March 2018 at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn with a first-round knockout of David Paz. On 23 August 2018 he won the WBA Inter-Continental title against Ramon Contreras. On 30 January 2020 in Miami he beat Daniel Roman by split decision to win the WBA (Super) and IBF super bantamweight titles, becoming Uzbekistan's first unified world champion. He defended them against Ryosuke Iwasa (2021, 5th-round stoppage), Jose Velasquez (2021) and Ronny Rios (2022, 12th-round knockout).

On 8 April 2023 in San Antonio he lost both titles by split decision to Marlon Tapales. In December 2023 he beat Kevin Gonzalez by 8th-round knockout, and on 14 December 2024 in Monte Carlo he stopped Ricardo Espinoza Franco in the third round to win the interim WBA title. In May 2025 he beat Luis Castillo in eight rounds, and on 14 September 2025 in Nagoya he lost a unanimous decision to Naoya Inoue in a fight for all the super bantamweight belts. On 29 May 2026 he stopped Hegly Mosqueda in four rounds in Tashkent. His professional record is 17 fights, 15 wins (12 by knockout) and 2 losses.