Dubai: Eisa ‘The Arabian Warrior’ Al Dah of Dubai stopped Spain’s Ignacio Cabellero Pares by knockout 27 seconds into the third round of the headline fight at the Dubai International Boxing Championship, Dubai World Trade Centre on Friday night.

Entering with a record of eight fights, six wins (three by KO) and two losses, welterweight Al Dah made light work of ‘Loco’ Pares of Girona, Catalunya, flooring him twice with right hooks inside the first round and with a neat right upper cut in the second.

The fourth and final such knockdown early in the third of this eight round bout came from a fast left right combo which left the Spaniard unable to find his feet inside the count. Ignacio’s record now reads nine fights, five wins all by KO and now four consecutive losses.

In the other five fights of this six card event Mohammad ‘The Tiger’ Akram of Syria and Mustafa ‘King of the Ring’ Zaid from Egypt recorded a unanimous draw with judges Steve Weisfeld, Taymer Zendaki and Mustafa Eisa scoring the professional debutants 39-39-39.

Akram (25 fights, 20 wins, five losses) fought back despite a cut to his left eye in the second to level the last two rounds of this four-round lightweight encounter. He put the more experienced Zaid (60 fights, 47 wins and 13 losses) on the ropes by the bell.

In fight two, Iran’s Ali Hussein ‘The Gentleman’ Mardi extended upon his unbeaten two professional fight record (two fights, two wins) with a TKO over Egypt’s Medhat ‘Mido’ Al Hussaini in the second. Mido came in with two fights, one win, one loss to his name but looked no match for the Iranian. Referee Steve Smoger was forced to stop the fight after Mido couldn’t recover from a blow to the ribs.

‘The Gent’s’ amateur record of 50 fights 48 wins was no match for ‘Mido’s’ previous six win two draw amateur kickboxing career.

If that was mismatched Mehdi ‘the sniper’ Ramezani of Iran’s welterweight clash with Iraq’s Anas Abdul ‘The Wolf’ Rahman was positively over before it even began.

Rahman was forced to throw in the towel at the end of round one after sustaining an irrecoverable head-knock after being swept off his feet mid-way through the first. It was only Mehdi’s second professional fight, but continues his 100 per cent win record. As an amateur he had recorded 50 fights, 48 wins and two losses. Rahman was making his professional debut having fought 13, won nine, lost four as an amateur Thai-boxer.

In fight four heavyweight Bernard Adie of Kenya with two pro fights two wins, 130 as amateur, 55 wins, lost by unanimous decision 39-34, 40-34, 39-37 to Syria’s Abdul Manem Kabbani.

Nine times UAE Champion, twice Arab and once Asian champion Kabbani, known as ‘The Beast from the Middle East’, reduced leggy Adie to an eight count twice in the first and once again in the fourth.

In the fifth and penultimate fight, a light heavyweight eight-rounder, Eisa Ramezanipaland of Iran pulled back a strong start from Abdullah Abou ‘The Hooligan’ Hamdan of Lebanon to win unanimously 76-74, 76-74, 79-71.

It was a professional debut for both, with the Iranian surfacing from a 10 win, one loss amateur kickboxing career and Abdullah having come from a kickboxing past of 35 fights 26 wins and a mixed martial arts history of seven fights, two wins.

Abdullah brought the fight to life in the third but Eisa brought it back in the sixth catching the Lebanese off-balance and combining with a left to floor him in the eighth.