MohaMMad ali Bayat Boxer, 24
Born in Iran, Mo Ali moved to Dubai at 16. He took up boxing to lose weight and soon started winning fights by KO. He has been winning ever since, and at just 24 he is already the WBC Champion (Asia Continental), WKBF World Champion (Kick Boxing) and WKBF Pan Asia Champion (Kick Boxing). He trains twice a day, five times a week. He is also a boxing coach at Platform 3 Fitness in Dubai. p3dubai.com
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Open skies / nOvember 2013
IMAges: OlgA PetrOFF, JulIet Dunne, reM
“I eat a lot of pIneapple, But otherwIse I eat what I lIke. I have no specIal dIet. people always joke, ‘where Is your sIx-pack?’ But what use Is a sIx-pack In the rIng? a sIx-pack Is not goIng to wIn me the fIght.”