“This is my style of fighting. This is Qazaq style, and this is what I will continue to do,” stated Janibek Alimkhanuly after unifying the IBF/WBO middleweight titles on Saturday night. “We knew from the beginning that [Gualtieri] wasn’t going to fight back. He was waiting because he thought I was going to get tired. But I didn’t get tired.
“We would like to add another two belts to this collection. We hope that our promoter Top Rank can organize that.”
It won’t be easy to get those last two belts, however, since both are held by fighters promoted by rival promoter PBC. To become undisputed, Alimkhanuly would need to beat WBA champion Erislandy Lara (29-3-3, 17 KOs) and WBC champion Jermall Charlo (32-0, 22 KOs).
Kazaq lighting but not quite thunder like Triple G. He’s a southpaw so that helps, pretty good overall.
Oh, and that overhand right to the top of the head, aswome. GGG does this as well.
I think Carlos Adames would fight Janibek, but Adames doesn’t have the full version of the WBC title, Charlo does and I don’t think there’s any chance in hell Charlo fights him. Lara is 40 years old and he rarely fights anyway so I don’t think that’s happening either. I think you’ll see Janibek end up fighting the likes of Michael Zerafa… maybe Shane Mosely Jr?
Zerafa has a date with Lara, however Mosely Jr would make for a good fight. Id watch that.
I heard that Zerafa had accepted a step-aside so Lara could fight Danny Garcia, but that was like back in August and they still haven’t fought so I was thinking maybe he’d accept a fight with Janibek. I also heard that he was having some terrible personal issues, so maybe he WOULD still want to wait for Lara – Garcia.
Who cares about Charlo at this point? He hasn’t even fought in over 2 years and is coming back against an overmatched welter.
He beats Lara but gets schooled by Charlo, Paper champ gonna keep on calling.
That’s paper unified champ…no all jokes aside Janibek earned it , he earned both titles. Kind of hard to become a two belt paper champ you better reconize foo!