{"id":898386,"date":"2026-09-16T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898386\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:42:09","slug":"queensberry-win-purse-bid-for-hamzah-sheeraz-vs-janibek-alimkhanuly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898386\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensberry win purse bid for Hamzah Sheeraz vs Janibek Alimkhanuly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Not long after questioning whether or not the fight was likely to happen, we\u2019re at least a marginal step closer to an ordered WBO super middleweight title fight between Hamzah Sheeraz vs Janibek Alimkhanuly as Frank Warren\u2019s Queensberry Promotions win the official purse bid for just over a million dollars, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/49958537\/queensberry-win-hamzah-sheeraz-janibek-alimkhanuly-purse-bid-dates-loactions-proposed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>, which was good enough to best Top Rank\u2019s bid of $820,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Warren was quick to say he\u2019s targeting either London or Birmingham in England, or New York as proposed locations for the bout, targeting either November 28 or December 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sheeraz has been vocal about his feelings towards Alimkhanuly being undeserving of this mandatory title shot considering his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/111805\/janibek-alimkhanuly-fails-drug-test-for-meldonium-erislandy-lara-fight-canceled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed drug test<\/a> last year, which led to a period of inactivity. Alimkhanuly has since been cleared to resume his career and ordered by the WBO as a mandatory challenger, so it seems Sheeraz will have to make a decision on whether he\u2019s going to accept his 75% of the purse, amounting to roughly $750,000, or otherwise lose the belt in an attempt to seek other opportunities and\/or bigger paydays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long after questioning whether or not the fight was likely to happen, we\u2019re at least a marginal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-898386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898386","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=898386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}