Tags: Amateur Boxer, Boxer.
Alisher Rahimov (Russian: Алишер Рахимов; born October 23 1977) is an amateur boxer from Uzbekistan who won the gold medal at the 1999 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in his home nation and competed for the bantamweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He defeated South Korea’s Cho Seok-Hwan and Algeria’s Hicham Blida in the first two rounds until he lost to Russia’s Raimkul Malakhbekov in the quarterfinal match.Rahimov is currently a WBC lightweight champion.