Ex-boxer Kabary Salem charged with murder

Former world title challenger Kabary Salem, 52, was extradited from Egypt last week and charged with the murder of his 25-year-old daughter, whose body was found in a New York City park last year. Salem fled the country after the incident. During his career, Salem compiled a career mark of 23-5, 12 KOs and challenged Joe Calzaghe for the WBO super middleweight title in 2004. However, he is probably best known for a tragic 1999 nationally televised fight with Randie Carver, who passed away after the bout.

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  • So he’s killed two people in his lifetime ehh? Probably killed his own daughter because she wouldn’t wear a burka.

  • The religion of peace strikes again. Probably honor killed his daughter because she wore a short sleeve shirt.

    • The voice of ignorance speaks again. What does him killing his daughter have anything to do with his religion? Honour killings are practised in many cultures, many of them non muslim and surprise, have no religious basis whatsoever.

      • True. Honestly has nothing to do with religion it’s more cultural. Many people of other faiths and religions execute honor killings. But it doesn’t seem like honor killing is the case here. Sounds like it was an accident during an argument.

  • I seem to remember the Calzaghe fight was a very messy affair.
    Sad that this has happened. He must be in a bad way to kill his own daughter

    • All jokes aside, anyone 25 years old has a lot of life left to live! Sad many dreams, goals, and aspirations are now missed by a young girl.

  • This is disgusting and sickening. Disgusted with that culture and their honor killings. To kill your own kid is sick! May he rot in hell.

  • Just terrible. He faced NABF champ 21-1-1 Randie Carver in 1999 who died from head injuries received. How did Kabary win? Yup repeated head butting which provided enough trauma to win. Carver lost consciousness in the ring and was there 20 minutes. Carver’s mother filed a lawsuit that the referee failed to protect him from “frequent and repeated headbutts”. Salem din not lose any pts because he was never warned first of intentional headbutting from ref. The only way Kabary could fight Calzaghe was all the head butts also. You see it also in that fight and the commentators said he had problems in NUMEROUS fights with use of the head. He was a dirty fighter in the ring and now appears to be guilty of killing his own offspring.

    • He’s a lot like Andre Ward in that regard but Ward has skills to go with his dirty fighting.

  • He also broke a referee’s nose from clash of heads. Just goes to show that he had no desire to play by the rules in sport nor by some basic rules in life.

  • Very sad story. I don’t know what the details of the crime were, but a lot of boxers have a tough adjusting to life after boxing. I read in the paper she was an activist for muslim women who were victims of domestic violence. It also said police were often called their home (I guess he lived with her) in Staten Island. Hopefully justice prevails.

  • Honour killing. They have children in the West, and expect them to adhere to those brutal outdated ways of living. Send him to the chamber.

  • He should’ve never been allowed to fight again after the Carver bout. As someone else stated here, he couldn’t follow the rules in the ring or in life. What a despicable human being.

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