Afghanistan’s Jama Saidi, after defeating his Ghana rival Jay Spencer in an International boxing match, is now ranked as Germany’s number one professional boxer in his weight class.

In the latest world ranking of the World Boxing Federation, Saidi is at the top of the best boxers in the 72kg weight class in Germany and 36th in the world ranking.

Saidi holds two championship belts from two world boxing organizations in Europe.

So far Saidi has fought 18 boxing matches, winning 17 and losing one.

Last week Saidi defeated his rival from Ghana in an International Boxing Federation (IBF) match in Berlin on Friday night (June 12), He won the match by points.

It is a first in the history of Afghan boxing: In 2019, he won two European professional championship belts in two international organizations, and in the same year he was included in the list of the best boxers weighing 69 kg.