{"id":297274,"date":"2025-11-21T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297274\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:05:07","slug":"the-janibek-alimkhanuly-fight-will-solidify-my-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297274\/","title":{"rendered":"The Janibek Alimkhanuly fight will \u2018solidify my legacy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;\">As a counterpunching southpaw molded in the Cuban amateur system, Lara, 31-3-3 (18 KOs), was almost tailor-made to thwart opponents\u2019 fight plans and gum up the action at every turn\u00a0\u2013 and, for a long time, he did. But he has been reborn at middleweight, authoring four consecutive knockouts dating back to his first-round wipeout of Thomas \u201cCornflake\u201d LaManna in 2021. Even Lara\u2019s most recent fight \u2013 similar to something of his older, uglier vintage \u2013 ended in a stoppage win over former two-division champ Danny Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a counterpunching southpaw molded in the Cuban amateur system, Lara, 31-3-3 (18 KOs), was almost tailor-made to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,106400,106896,93512,82,133730],"class_list":{"0":"post-297274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-danny-garcia","12":"tag-erislandy-alvarez","13":"tag-janibek-alimkhanuly","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-thomas-lamanna"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297274","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=297274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}