Afghan boxer Hamid Rahimi won the first professional bout in his war-torn country Tuesday by stopping Said Mbelwa of Tanzania in the seventh round. Rahimi, who is based in Germany, said his aim in ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A joyous Kabul crowd invaded the ring to celebrate a local victory in Afghanistan's first professional men's boxing match, after Hamid Rahimi beat Tanzanian Said Mbelwa in seven ...

Afghanistan's own Hamid Rahimi takes a World Boxing crown in a rare bout held in Kabul. It wasn't Caesar's Palace. It was the Loya Jirga Hall at Kabul Polytechnic University -– a building where ...