{"id":280328,"date":"2025-11-24T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280328\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:00:11","slug":"night-of-the-champions-prelim-results-from-riyadh-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280328\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of The Champions Prelim Results From Riyadh, Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohammed Alakel<\/a> easily handled Jiaming Li to remain unbeaten before his hometown fans Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi prospect dropped Li toward the end of the fifth round, hurt him on several other occasions and shut him out on all three scorecards in a one-sided, six-round lightweight contest that capped the non-pay-per-view portion of \u201cThe Ring IV: Night of the Champions<\/a>\u201d card at ANB Arena. Judges Nawaf Almohaimeed, Mike Fitzgerald and Leszek Jankowiak all scored the fight 60-53 for Riyadh\u2019s Alakel.<\/p>\n

Alakel, 21, advanced to 7-0, though he went the distance for the sixth time since he turned pro. China\u2019s Li, 34, dropped to 7-6 (4 KOs), but he avoided what could\u2019ve been his second knockout defeat in the past 2\u00bd months.<\/p>\n

Earlier Saturday night, Pius Mpenda provided more resistance than anticipated and held undefeated Mexican super middleweight Julio Porras to a six-round draw.<\/p>\n

All three judges \u2013 Mike Fitzgerald, Pavel Hynek and Mike Ross \u2013 scored their competitive contest identically, 57-57. Tanzania\u2019s Mpenda (11-4-2, 5 KOs) rallied in the second half of their bout, when he landed numerous right hands on Porras (13-0-1, 9 KOs).<\/p>\n

In the previous fight, Riyadh-based junior lightweight Sultan Almohammed stopped India\u2019s Umesh Chavan in the first round of a scheduled four-rounder.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old Almohammed improved to 2-0 and produced his first knockout as a pro. Chavan (3-2-1) was knocked out for the first time.<\/p>\n

Almohammed hurt Chavan with a left to the body with just under a minute to go in the opening round. Chavan turned his back on Almohammed after absorbing that shot, which caused referee Edward Collantes to stop the action.<\/p>\n

A fighter even younger than Almohammed, Juan El Guerito de Tepito, shut out Barker Ssewanyana on all three scorecards in the opening bout on the card.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old Mexican bantamweight made his pro debut against Uganda\u2019s Ssewanyana (1-2-1), whose awkwardness helped prevent El Guerito de Tepito from knocking him out. Mexico City\u2019s El Guerito de Tepito won by the same score, 40-35, on all three cards because Ssewanyana had a point deducted for holding.<\/p>\n

Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammed Alakel easily handled Jiaming Li to remain unbeaten before his hometown fans Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-280328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}