Active Competitor and Amateur Boxer. Northwest Amateur Champion Ronald Alimov runs the open gym sessions on Saturdays, taking on personal training clients, and starting the Ladies Only class this year.

Meet Artem Alimov, the owner of Northwest Fighting Academy of Redmond. Artem is not only the owner of this state-of-the-art boxing gym, but he’s also one of the trainers. TBorn in Uzbekistan in 1990, Artem was the first born child in the Alimov family. From an early age and still to this day, Artem credits his father as the greatest boxing influence in his life, who grew up in a community immersed in boxing.

Timur Alimov, Born in Uzbekistan in 1963, grew up in a town predominately immersed in boxing. Timur, began his training in the city of Tashkent at the boxing gym, Dinamo. Timur competed in his first tournament when he was 15 years old and was active in the sport throughout his junior years winning the Junior Boxing Championships in Uzbekistan. On a domestic level, Tim became the National Amateur Boxing Champion in 1982, 1984 and 1987. Timur also fought in international tournaments in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan placing second in the major amateur tournaments. He achieved the rank of Master of Sport (USSR) as an athlete and He continued to fight in tournaments until 1989.