{"id":248858,"date":"2025-10-29T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248858\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:53:18","slug":"alimkhanuly-lara-unification-injects-new-life-to-middleweight-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248858\/","title":{"rendered":"Alimkhanuly-Lara unification injects new life to middleweight division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Just beneath 160lbs, the junior middleweights stand as the sport\u2019s deepest division. Current titleholders Bakhram Murtazaliev (IBF) and Sebastian Fundora (WBC) and unbeaten contenders Vergil Ortiz Jnr and Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis are all capable of \u201cmigrating,\u201d Algieri said. \u201cOr [new undisputed super-middleweight champion] Terence Crawford might be enticed to come down [and fight for a sixth division title].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just beneath 160lbs, the junior middleweights stand as the sport\u2019s deepest division. Current titleholders Bakhram Murtazaliev (IBF) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[147690,64,63,802,118730,118729,147689,147691,85,147692],"class_list":{"0":"post-248858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-alimkhanuly-vs-lara","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-erislandy-lara","13":"tag-janibek-alimkhanuly","14":"tag-janibek-vs-lara","15":"tag-middleweights","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-unification"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}