Yama\u2019s opponent Mulataiaili, the WBC Asian Super Lightweight champion, is undefeated and ranked number one in China.<\/p>\n
Mulataiaili is currently ranked 13th in both the IBF Lightweight division and the Boxrec Super Lightweight division.<\/p>\n
Her current record is six wins, with a 50% knockout rate.<\/p>\n
Mulataiaili, at 1.8m (5\u201911), is slightly taller than Yama, who is 1.73m (5\u20198), which could give Mulataiaili an advantage.<\/p>\n
Mulataiaili is also younger than Yama, but Yama has proven that she has power after becoming the first person ever to TKO Helu.<\/p>\n
There has only been one New Zealand-born boxer to win an IBF International title in any weight division \u2013 Australian-based Mariah Turner.<\/p>\n
Turner won the IBF International Featherweight title last November against undefeated Australian boxer Stephanie Lee Cutting.<\/p>\n
No male boxer from New Zealand has won an IBF International title.<\/p>\n
Also on the upcoming BX-9 card will be the quarter-finals of the BX-9 Welterweight Championship Tournament.<\/p>\n
The semi-finals are planned to happen in August and the finals in October.<\/p>\n
Already confirmed in the tournament is Auckland\u2019s Leon Budgen, who defeated former UFC fighter Shane Young last December.<\/p>\n
Another boxer confirmed is Hamilton\u2019s Hamza Perwaisy, who will make his professional boxing debut.<\/p>\n
Their opponents are still to be confirmed.<\/p>\n
Perwaisy has a big kickboxing and amateur boxing history. <\/p>\n
He is a New Zealand national junior amateur champion from 2010 and made his semi-pro debut at BX-9 last year, beating Mikhail Zinoviyev.<\/p>\n
There are six more fighters still to be announced in the BX-9 Welterweight Championship Tournament.<\/p>\n
The event, including the Yama-Mulataiaili bout, will take place at Auckland\u2019s Eventfinda Stadium on May 2.<\/p>\n
The event will be streamed live on PPV with CSN.Watch.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Watt is a retired boxing judge and New Zealand boxing writer with a decade of experience. Watt has also been BoxRec\u2019s New Zealand record-keeper since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yama\u2019s opponent Mulataiaili, the WBC Asian Super Lightweight champion, is undefeated and ranked number one in China. Mulataiaili…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[4625,13849,703,49,48,58111,1138,693,96224,219783,3801,216841,69218,2000,77,1153,20587,16499,26560,219784,216840,216838,82,11376,696,2813,3904,216839],"class_list":["post-571548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-against","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-confirmed","tag-fight","tag-for","tag-fresh","tag-haini","tag-hamilton","tag-helu","tag-ibf","tag-in","tag-international","tag-knockout","tag-last","tag-major","tag-may","tag-mulataiaili","tag-nailini","tag-sheilla","tag-sports","tag-title","tag-to","tag-week","tag-will","tag-yama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}