Joy Ali

In 1995, Ali's first reported boxing match was against Raven, whom he defeated in the fourth round by a KO at the National Indoor Stadium, Suva, Fiji.^[1] He won the vacant Pan Asian Boxing Association (PABA) light middleweight title against the former World Amateur bronze medalist Ercüment Aslan of Turkey.^[1][2]

Ali was a very religious person and followed the Islamic faith.^[3] He sold razor blades with his younger brother to start off his boxing career.^[4] Ali died on 5 January 2015, aged 36, at the CWM Hospital in Suva.^[5] His death was a suicide.^[6] Ali was survived by his wife and three children.^[5]