Uata, 36, who is the cousin of Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, lost to Canadian Simon Keane, 33, in an incredibly mysterious way..

As soon as the gong rang about the beginning of the fight, the French boxer suddenly knelt down and raised his hand up. Neither Nevfel's rival, nor the referee in the ring were ready for such a development of events..

Realizing that Uata did not intend to box, the referee stopped the fight at the 16th second.. Keane did not have time to react to the signal from the referee and delivered one blow to the kneeling opponent. This jab was not included in the official fight statistics.. As a result, the Canadian was awarded the victory by technical knockout, which in social networks was dubbed perhaps the strangest in history.. Later there was an explanation of what happened. It turned out that the French Boxing Federation banned Uate from fighting because he could not get insurance. At the same time, it remains unclear why the Frenchman entered the ring at all - he probably did it for a demonstrative purpose..

Recall that in June 2021, Uata fought with the undefeated Ukrainian heavyweight Vladislav Sirenko. Then the Ukrainian powerfully knocked out the Frenchman in the fourth round.