Casablanca – Moroccan Muay Thai star Elmehdi El Jamari suffered a disappointing loss in a pivotal Muay Thai bout at ONE Championship show ONE Fight Night 32.
Both men traded low kicks in the opening moments of the strawweight Muay Thai contest before El Jamari struck with a left punch as Aliff continuously targeted his Moroccan counterpart’s body with vicious kicks.
In the second round, El Jamari threw a boxing combination ending with a left hook, but Aliff kept on hitting his Moroccan’s now-bruised left midsection with kicks and knee strikes, while using his seven-centimeter height advantage to evade the Moroccan’s punches.
With El Jamari trailing at the start of the third and final round, he tried to close the distance and search for openings for his dangerous boxing combinations, but Aliff used his quick movements and strength to keep the Moroccan fighter at bay.
With El Jamari incapable of landing major strikes, Aliff picked up a unanimous decision win inside Bangkok’s iconic Lumpinee Stadium. The gold medalist at the Southeast Asia Games and the International Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA) now boasts wins over both Elmehdi and his brother and fellow ONE athlete Zakaria, whom he had knocked out back in August 2024.
The win improves Aliff’s overall professional record to 61-9 and grants the 21-year-old Malaysian-Thai fighter a title shot against veteran and two-sport world champion Prajanchai PK Saenchai for the latter’s ONE Strawweight Muay Thai world title.
Meanwhile, El Jamari suffered only the second defeat of his professional career and sees his overall record drop to 27-2. The 27-year-old Moroccan, who trains under Hamza Ostora at Ostora Fighters World in Spain, had opened his ONE Championship account with an impressive first-round knockout victory against Thailand’s Thongpoon PK Saenchai in April.
A former WBC Muay Thai world champion, El Jamari is a seven-time Morocco Muay Thai champion who had also picked up the Arab and Africa Muay Thai titles twice each.
