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UBO Flashback: When "The Hulk" Made History, Won UBO Title
 
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JUNE 6, 2023 / BY BY UBO PRESS OFFICER
 
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After an extensive amateur career, Nadir “The Hulk” Baloch made his professional debut in a ten-round bout in November of 2016, setting up a very ambitious assignment in his second paid outing four months later.

  
 

On March 23, 2017 the Pakistani boxer took on former Universal Boxing Organization™ (UBO) world champion Juma Fundi for the vacant UBO International Super Bantamweight title, skipping quite a few levels on his mission to reach the top.

At 1-0, it was a risky task to face an experienced campaigner such as Fundi, who entered the fight with 46 bouts (29-14-3) and no less than twelve championship fights on his resume. But Baloch quickly showed it was a well-calculated risk.

In the main event of a show at the Ayub National Stadium in Quetta, Baloch thrilled the many fans at ringside when he floored Fundi in the first round and finished him in the second, making history by winning what was the first ever non-domestic championship fight in Pakistan.


 
 

Baloch, currently 12-1 (9), soon after moved up to Featherweight, where he won the Pakistan national title in November of 2017, and the WBC Middle East title in 2020.

He suffered his sole defeat to date when he was stopped in four rounds by undefeated Hasibullah Ahmadi (13-0) in a fight for the WBC Asia title in 2021, but rebounded nicely last August when he picked up the Asian Boxing Federation Super Featherweight crown, decisioning Paiboon Lorkham (21-13) in Thailand.

 
 
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