A promising young boxer from Keighley with the perfect name has transferred from Eastburn Boxing Club to a well-established club in Cleckheaton.

Eleven-year-old Mohammad Ali (pictured right) and his younger brother Danesh, nine, completed the transfer to Cleck heaton Boxing Academy earlier this month.

Although Danesh is too young to compete, Mohammad has fought six bouts, winning three of them including a unanimous decision against T McGary of Doncaster Plant Works ABC at RAF Leconfield in Driffield on September 5.

Keith Tate, chief coach at the Cleckheaton club, said: “Mohammad won hands down and is coming on tremendously. He and his brother Danesh are two of the fittest kids I have in my gym.

“Danesh is also showing promise. If he was 11-years-old now he would competing for me. I have high hopes for both boys.”

Tate, whose club at Cleckheaton has been in existence since 1975, has the pedigree to be an excellent trainer for the two boys.

He said: “I won six amateur titles as a youngster and have had 18 different boys box for England and have had 25 national champions. Three of the boys I’ve coached have went on to win world title as professionals.”

Tate said Eastburn was agreeable to the transfer and the Cleckheaton coach was happy to take Mohammad into his boxing ranks.

“When he born, to be given a name like that, you knew that he was always going to be a boxer.”

Meanwhile, the two boys’ father, Shahid, is in process of organising a boxing show in Keighley which will take place in December or January.