Janibek Alimkhanuly is a Kazakh professional boxer and unified middleweight champion who has held the WBO title since 2022, and the IBF title since October 2023.
21 Facts About Janibek Alimkhanuly
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Janibek Alimkhanuly represented Kazakhstan at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the middleweight division, losing in the quarter-finals.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly won the WBO Interim middleweight title on May 21,2022, before being elevated to full champion on August 30,2022, and he then won the IBF title on October 14,2023.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly's first fight was at six and he lost that match.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly made his professional debut in 29 Oct 2016 against Milton Nunez, a former opponent of Janibek Alimkhanuly's fellow countryman Gennady Golovkin, on 29 October 2016 in his home city of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly's fight was canceled but he said it's not a big deal that his bout was canceled and that there were more pressing concerns.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly knocked Brant down in the sixth round en route to an eighth-round corner retirement victory.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly faced the former two-time world middleweight champion Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam on 20 November 2021, on the Terence Crawford vs Shawn Porter undercard.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly won the fight by an eight-round technical knockout.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly was ahead on the scorecards at the time of the stoppage and had knocked N'Jikam down in the third round.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly made quick work of his opponent, stopping Dignum with an uppercut near the end of the second round.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly landed 21 of 33 power punches and 34 of 94 overall, while Dignum managed to land only 6 out of 45 total punches.
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On 20 July 2022, the WBO ordered Andrade to defend his title against Janibek Alimkhanuly, giving the pair 30 days to come to terms.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly was promoted to the WBO Champion that same day.
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On 20 November 2022, the WBO formally ordered Janibek Alimkhanuly to make a mandatory title defense against the former junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguia.
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On 22 February 2023, Janibek Alimkhanuly was ordered to make a mandatory title defense against the former WBO light-middleweight champion Liam Smith.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly faced the IBF middleweight titleholder Vincenzo Gualtieri in a championship unification bout on October 14,2023, at the Fort Bend County Epicenter in Rosenberg, Texas.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly was scheduled to face Andrei Mikhailovich on July 13,2024 in Las Vegas, but the bout fell off after he withdrew due to weight cutting issue.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly won the fight by TKO in the ninth round.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly defended his unified IBF and WBO middleweight titles against Anauel Ngamissengue at Barys Arena in Astana, Kazakhstan on 5 April 2025.
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Janibek Alimkhanuly is learning the English language and enjoys watering his plants on weekends.