Janibek “Qazaq Style” Alimkhanuly (14-0, 9 KOs) successfully retained his WBO world title on Saturday night at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, California, triumphing over Canadian challenger Steven Butler (32-4-1, 26 KOs) with a second-round knockout.
Just hours before his scheduled defense of his WBO and IBF middleweight titles against Andrei Mikhailovich, Janibek Alimkhanuly has been forced to pull out due to a severe case of dehydration.
Last night, in a fight that’ll make your grandma’s sparring sessions look tough, Janibek Alimkhanuly, WBO middleweight champion, turned the boxing ring into his personal playground.
WBO middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly (15-0, 10 KOs) easily defeated IBF champion Vincenzo Gualtieri (21-1-1, 7 KOs) by a sixth-round TKO in their two-belt unification contest at 160 in a fight that was one-sided from start to finish at the Fort Bend Epicenter in Rosenberg, Texas.
Janibek Alimkhanuly & Vincenzo Gualtieri made weight on Friday for their middleweight unification fight this Saturday night at the Fort Bend Epicenter in Rosenberg, Texas.
For a while now, some people have been comparing current WBO middleweight champ Janibek Alimkhanuly with the great Gennady Golovkin. Aside from the obvious, in Alimkhanuly being from Kazakhstan as is GGG, the two men have a fighting style and approach that could be looked at as quite similar.
Janibek Alimkhanuly faces Vincenzo Gualtieri this Saturday night in a 12-round middleweight unification fight on October 14th on ESPN.
In WBO middleweight champion Janibek’s last fight, he stopped Steven Butler in the second round last May and was an odd choice for a title defense.
WBO middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly (14-0, 9 KOs) and newly crowned unbeaten IBF champ Vincenzo Gualtieri (21-0-1, 7 KOs) will meet on October 14th for a 160-lb unification clash on ESPN in Rosenberg, Texas.
Top Rank needs to start making a move to match WBO middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly (14-0, 9 KOs) against better opposition following his second round knockout win over Steven Butler (32-4-1, 26 KOs) last Saturday night at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, California.
To ask a question in the manner so many fighters phrase things these days: will anyone want any of this smoke?!