Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov (Shere Khan) pugile

Shavkatdzhon Shokirovich Rakhimov (born 14 August 1994) is a Tajikistani professional boxer. He held the IBO super-featherweight title from 2017 to 2019 and challenged for the IBF super-featherweight title in February 2021. As of June 2020, he is ranked as the world's sixth best active super-featherweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, seventh by BoxRec and ninth by The Ring.In 2013, Rakhimov won a gold medal at the Tajikistan National Championships in Dushanbe in June, and went on to compete at the 2013 World Boxing Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan in October where he defeated Adilson Justino of Angola and Branimir Stankovic of Serbia but lost to Ermek Sakenov of Kyrgyzstan in the third round.In 2014, Rakhimov won a gold medal at the Tajikistan National Championships in Khujand in May, and went on to win a bronze medal at the 2014 World University Boxing Championships in Yakutsk, Russia in September. In 2015, Rakhimov won a gold medal at the 2015 Tajikistan National Championship in Dushanbe in March.Shavkat Rakhimov made his professional debut in 2015 at the age of 21. He won the WBO Inter-Continental Youth super featherweight title in 2016, and by mid 2017 had amassed a record of 10 wins with all but two by stoppage.