Lima, 32, defeated Koopman in the ninth round of the fight, inflicting a ‘TKO’ (technical knockout) with a left cross blow on the South African, who, until this duel, was undefeated in the category, with 15 wins in 15 fights.
In this way, the boxer born in Luanda and based in Porto since the age of eight retains the ‘belt’ won on December 12, 2024, over the Indian Sukhdeep Singh Bhatti, in Toronto, Canada, now having a record of 14 wins and one loss.
Linked to Vitória de Guimarães since September 2023, where he trains under the guidance of coach Alberto Costa, the fighter entered the top 100 of the informal platform BoxRec ranking for the first time after defeating the Armenian Araik Marutjan in Berlin, on November 25 of that same year.
Known on the circuit as a ‘monster’, Uisma Lima, a professional since 2019, later won the intercontinental title of the International Boxing Federation (IBF), another of the organizations that oversees the sport, by beating the German Haro Matevosyan in April 2024, also in Berlin, before fighting the fight that gave him the title against Sukhdeep Singh Bhatti.
