Each coming from Kazakhstan and former Olympians for his or her nation and turning into world middleweight champions within the skilled ranks are Gennadiy ‘GGG’ Golovkin and Janibek ‘Qazaq Fashion’ Alimkhanuly. Is he following in GGG’s footsteps?
Within the amateurs, GGG was 345-5 preventing within the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, profitable the Silver Medal however shedding within the finals to Gaybarbek Gaydarbekov of Russia, 28-18.
Golovkin, born in Karaganda, KAZ, gained his first minor title in 2009, stopping John Anderson, 19-3-1, for the WBO Inter-Continental Middleweight title.
In 2010, GGG gained the WBO Interim title, knocking out Milton Nunez, 21-1-1, in Panama Metropolis, Panama. In his subsequent struggle, he gained the WBO title, knocking out Nilson Julio Tapia, 14-2-1, in KAZ. He added the WBA title, stopping Kassim Ouma (27-7-1).
Subsequent, GGG added the IBO title, knocking out Luan Simon (23-3-2). In 2013, I coated his win over Philly’s Gabe ‘King’ Rosado (21-5) at Madison Sq. Backyard’s Theater. In 2014, he knocked out Marci Antonio Rubio, 59-6-1, including the WBC Interim title, bettering to 31-0.
In 2015, GGG added the IBF title, stopping David Lemieux, 34-2. In 2017, he defeated Danny ‘Miracle Man’ Jacobs (32-1) by a 12-round resolution. Subsequent got here his first non-win, ending in a disputed 12-round SD draw with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (49-1-1) in Las Vegas. He chased down ‘Canelo’ within the final seven rounds. Choose Adalaide Byrd scored it 118-110 for Alvarez. She ought to have been suspended.
Two fights later, GGG, as an alternative of going for a knockout, determined to combine it up with boxing, shedding for the primary time to ‘Canelo’ by majority resolution, dropping to 38-1-1.
GGG gained his subsequent 4 fights over 4 years, awaiting his rematch with Alvarez in September of 2022 in Las Vegas, shedding 115-113 twice and 116-112. Why the four-year delay by Alvarez? By this time, each confirmed their age, with GGG not preventing once more at age 40. His ultimate report was 42-2-1, with 37 stoppages.
Within the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Janibek Alimkhanuly defeated Anthony Fowler of the UK and Ilyas Abbadi of Algeria. Then misplaced to Kamran Shakhsyvarly 2-1 of Azerbaijan 2-1. He was 48-9 within the amateurs. In 2015 within the World Collection of Boxing he gained each fights defeating Jeffrey Flaz of Puerto Rico by TKO in 1 and Christian Zarate of Argentina 3-0.
Born in Zhilandy, Kazakhstan, he lives in Oxnard, California. In 2019, he gained his first minor titles, defeating Cristian Olivas, 14-4, for the vacant WBC Continental Americas and WBO International middleweight titles. In Could 2022, he gained the WBO Interim World title, knocking out Danny Dignum (14-0-1) in two rounds in Las Vegas. Subsequent, in 2023, he gained the WBO title, knocking out Steven Butler (32-3-1) and stopping IBF champion Vincenzo Gualtieri (21-0-1).
In 2024 in his final struggle he stopped Andrei Mikhailovich (21-0), in Sydney, Australia, defending his IBF title bettering to 16-0 with 11 stoppages.
As he follows GGG, having gained two world titles within the middleweight division, he must be trying to unify the title towards WBA champion Cuban Erislandy Lara 31-3-3, with 19 stoppages. The WBC champion is Dominican’s Carlos Adames, 24-1 with 18 stoppages, out of Las Vegas. In 2014, he defeated Terrell Gausha, 24-3-1, in his most up-to-date bout.
