DETROIT (September 3, 2025) – Two former world champions, Sadam “World Kid” Ali (28-3, 14 KOs) and Richard “RC” Commey (31-5-1, 27 KOs), returned to the ring after long layoffs on yesterday’s “The Return” pro boxing card, presented by WorldKid Promotions, at Wayne State Fieldhouse in Detroit.

All the action was streamed live on www.BXNGTV.com.

Ali, 36, hadn’t fought since May 4, 2019. The 2008 U.S. Olympian worked off the early rust against his main-event opponent, Cody Wilson (14-6, 9 KOs), in a dominant performance enroute to a near “shutout”, winning all 10-rounds on two of the judges’ scorecard, nine on the third judges’ card.

Ali has the rare distinction of having upset the in 2017, upsetting then future Hall-of-Famer Miquel Cotto (41-5) – in 2017 not far from his Brooklyn home at the famed Madison Square Garden – to become the World Boxing Organization (WBO) World junior middleweight champion, in addition to defeating future Hall of Famer Terence “Bud” Crawford to become a 2008 U.S. Olympian.

The 38-year-old Commey, a native of Ghana who also fights out of Brooklyn, had been out of the ring more than two years until he stepped in it yesterday against William “Action” Jackson (13-7-2, 5 KOs), the former WBC USA Silver welterweight champion. 

Commey, who became the International Boxing Federation (IBF) Lightweight World Champion in 2019, showed his old power by blasting out Jackson in the second round.

Local favorite from nearby Dearborn Heights (MI), junior middleweight Husam “Lionheart” Al Mashhadi (13-1, 11 KOs), won his seventh consecutive fight, knocking out Abraham Afful (13-7-1, 13 KOs), of Ghana, in round three of the in the co-featured event.  Al Mashhadi hurt Afful at the end of the second round and finished him off with a flurry of punches to start the third.

Brooklyn bantamweight Khalid Twaiti (15-1, 5 KOs) successfully rebounded from the lone loss of his pro career with a decisive six-round unanimous decision over Francisco “Charrito” Gomez Sanchez (14-14, 11 KOs), of Mexico.