{"id":19592,"date":"2025-07-24T03:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/19592\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:48:08","slug":"carlos-adames-wasted-my-time-after-unification-fight-with-janibek-alimkhanuly-fell-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/19592\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Adames ‘wasted my time’ after unification fight with Janibek Alimkhanuly fell through"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Janibek Alimkhanuly <\/a>fondly rewinds to his vicious fifth-round stoppage win over mandatory challenger Anauel Ngamissengue on social media, the unified WBO\/IBF middleweight champion continues waiting patiently for fight news.
It’s been three-and-a-half months since his triumphant homecoming in Kazakhstan’s capital city<\/a> of Astana, where he returned to fight for the first time since the 2016 Olympian’s second professional fight some eight years ago.<\/p>\n

Since then, Alimhanuly (17-0, 12 KOs) gradually made a name for himself stateside and won, unified and defended world championships across the United States as well as an unexpected trip to Australia but being left unsatisfied.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

His resume flatters to deceive, and rather than take steps to achieve his undisputed aspirations, inactivity and one-sided matchups haven’t helped as many critics believe the 32-year-old has stagnated against middling opposition.<\/p>\n

Denzel Bentley’s determined pursuit of a rematch <\/a>with the southpaw, nearly three years after their short-notice matchup, is emblematic of the problems he faces at a time where few are willing to risk their leverage in a division needing change at the top. Bentley has this month been ordered by the WBO to face Endry Saavedra<\/a> in a final eliminator.
Janibek previously told The Ring of a willingness to move up to the 168-pound division<\/a>, much like Hamzah Sheeraz did recently, in hopes that he’ll finally secure the competitive marquee matchup he craves against a willing champion or top-ranked contender.
A proposed WBO\/IBF\/WBC unification with Carlos Adames<\/a> (24-1-1, 18 KOs) was in the works for The Ring’s Night of Champions card on Nov. 22, before negotiations with his fellow 160-pound titlist went cold.
During a recent appearance on Tha Boxing Voice, Riyadh Season head Turki Alalshikh was asked about potentially making Alimhanuly-Adames. It would’ve featured during a stacked bill headlined by David Benavidez-Anthony Yarde in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He wasted my time and the chance [to box in a title unification], I gave him a good generous offer and after that, he waited 4-5 days, didn’t answer and was going [over] with small details. I cannot understand it and for that, I take [back] the offer. Janibek has no problem, Adames is the problem,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He gives a difficult time for Luis de Cubas, who is our partner now. This is his mistake, and if he doesn’t fix it we will miss him in Riyadh Season.”<\/p>\n

Adames, just like Benavidez, is another titleholder aligned with Premier Boxing Champions. He hadn’t boxed on a non-PBC show since signing a multi-year contract with them in 2021, before his 12-round majority draw against Sheeraz in February.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old has boxed once a year in each of the last three and was ordered to defend his WBC title against unbeaten Kazakh Meiirim Nursultanov (20-0, 11 KOs), though talks went quiet after a deadline was extended in May.<\/p>\n

Adames himself has been increasingly vocal on social media in recent weeks, from calling for a Sheeraz rematch after his super middleweight debut win over Edgar Berlanga,<\/a> to divulging failed talks about moving up in weight to box Benavidez \u2014 managed by de Cubas \u2014 last year.
He’s also posted old footage of a sparring session with four-division world champion Terence Crawford, who will make his own divisional debut in a superfight against undisputed king Canelo Alvarez on Sept. 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Janibek Alimkhanuly fondly rewinds to his vicious fifth-round stoppage win over mandatory challenger Anauel Ngamissengue on social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":["post-19592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}