On May 4, 2019, a 30-year-old Sadam Ali (27-2, 14 KOs) and a 31-year-old Anthony Young (20-2, 7 KOs) met in the ring.
Ali came in to the fight on a 1-fight win streak with a 48% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 4 months and 19 days. Young was on a 9-fight win streak with a 31% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 1 month and 11 days.
Anthony Young stopped Sadam Ali via TKO in the 3rd round. Young improves his record to 21-2 (8 KOs), while Ali adds a loss to his record at 27-3.
On May 12, 2018, the 29-year-old WBO super-welterweight world champion, Sadam Ali (26-1, 14 KOs), faced a 21-year-old Mexican boxer Jaime Munguía (28-0, 24 KOs), in a title defense fight.
Ali came in to the fight on a 4-fight win streak with a 51% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 5 months and 10 days. Munguía was on a 28-fight win streak with a 85% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 1 month and 25 days.
Jaime Munguía stopped the champion via TKO in the 4th round of the 12-round world-title fight, winning the first world title of his career, and is crowned the new WBO super-welterweight champion. Munguía improves his record to 29-0 (25 KOs), while Ali adds a loss to his record at 26-2.
On March 5, 2016, 27-year-old Sadam Ali (22-0, 13 KOs) and 26-year-old Jessie Vargas (26-1, 9 KOs) fought for the vacant WBO welterweight title.
Ali came in to the fight on a 22-fight win streak with a 59% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 10 months and 9 days. Vargas was on a -1-fight win streak with a 33% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 8 months and 7 days.
Jessie Vargas stopped Sadam Ali via TKO in the 9th round of the 12-round world-title fight. Vargas improves his record to 27-1 (10 KOs), while Ali adds a loss to his record at 22-1.