Muhammad Rachman is back!

Wednesday, June 11 2008

By Jeff Pamungkas (as published in Fightnews.com)

Former IBF minimumweight champion, Muhammad "The Rock Breaker" Rachman (61-6-5, 31 KOs) is finally back after his almost one year inactivity after being defeated by Florante Condes in Jakarta, July 7 last year. He's scheduled to fight a young Filipino fighter, Edren Dapudong, (8-1, 5 KOs) in a ten round non-title bout at Trans TV Studio, Jakarta, Indonesia on June 28. Rachman, now 36 years old, confessed that he couldn't forget the night when he was knocked down twice in front of his supporters, and surrendered his title to Condes via a split decision. "I still train daily, and I'm not washed up," said Rachman. "I won't retire before facing Condes once again." The Rachman vs Condes rematch was in on/off condition before finally Condes decided to fight Raul Garcia in Mexico this week (6/14), leaving Rachman behind. Rachman is the oldest world champion ever in the minimumweight division. He was 35 years, 6 months and 14 days when he was defeated by Condes. Rachman is now rated #5 by the IBF and he expects to maintain his rating in order to face Condes once again before hanging up his gloves for good.