Nasir turns pro with Sanigar by Kevin Taylor Mar 15th 2008

Top Welsh amateur Mo Nasir has decided to turn professional after seeing his Olympic dreams ruined by injury. Nasir, from Newport, will join Chris Sanigar's stable and will continue to be trained by Tony Borg according to the South Wales Echo The 22-year-old who was a bronze medalist at the 2006 Commonwealth games makes his move from the amatuer ranks after Khalid Yafai of Birmingham, who like Nasir is of Yemeni descent, took Britains flyweight slot in Beijing. Ankle damage forced the Welshman to retire during the third round of their contest when the pair met in a the recent qualifiers. The injury also robbed Nasir of his chance to win the Welsh ABA's for a fourth time, he was due to complete last weekend at flyweight after winning the title three times at light-flyweight. Another Welsh amateur Tobias Webb, who is a nephew of Enzo Mccarinelli is set to follow his uncle into the Enzo Calzaghe gym. The middleweight from Swansea moved up to the light-heavyweight division in the Welsh ABA's after failing to make the weight for the middleweights, he won in the prelims but then turned up over the division's weight limit in for his semi-final a week later.

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