History was made on the undercard of Anthony Joshua’s fight with Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday evening when the first women’s fight took place in Saudi Arabia. But sadly for those in attendance it did not last long as the British-based Somali boxer Ramla Ali required only one minute and five seconds of her super-bantamweight clash with the Dominican Republic’s Crystal García Nova to secure a knockout victory.
It was a stunning triumph in more ways than one as Ali, having forced García Nova back with a fast and aggressive start, unleashed a twisting right-hand shot to the side of the face so powerful that it knocked the gum shield out of her opponent’s mouth. Shocked and shook-up, García Nova fell to her knees and was soon counted out.
