{"id":235285,"date":"2025-10-31T04:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235285\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:44:23","slug":"cuban-genius-vs-kazakh-destroyer-lara-janibek-bring-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235285\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Genius Vs Kazakh Destroyer: Lara\u2013Janibek Bring Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (31-3-3, 19 KOs) and IBF and WBO champion Janibek Alimkhnuly (17-0, 12 KOs) are now officially the support for the December 6th, 2025, PBC on <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Prime\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxing247.com\/go\/prime\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Prime Video<\/a> PPV event at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Lara, 42, and Alimhanuly will have three titles on the line for their fight on December 6th. The winner will be one belt away from becoming the undisputed champion at 160. WBC champion Carlos Adames holds the only title they would need. If Terence Crawford moves down to middleweight and dethrones Adames, the chances of the Lara-Janibek winner facing him for a big payday would be high.<\/p>\n<p>Can Lara Still Move Like 2014?<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban Lara will be coming off a 15-month layoff when he faces Alimkhanuly on December 6th. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how the long stretch of inactivity will affect Lara. It\u2019s not just that. He\u2019s also not fought anyone high-level for many years, dating back to his fight against Canelo Alvarez on July 12, 2014. Everyone Lara has fought since has been B and C-level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to unify four belts and make my name a part of history,\u201d said Alimkhanuly. \u201cI\u2019ve been working tirelessly on this path. I\u2019ve been calling out champions for a long time, and Lara agreed. The big fight is on December 6! God willing, I\u2019ll win my third title. History is almost made!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Main fight card <\/p>\n<p>Isaac \u201cPitbull\u201d Cruz vs. Lamont Roach<br \/>\nJanibek Alimkhanuly vs. Erislandy Lara<br \/>\nO\u2019Shaquie Foster vs. Stephen Fulton<br \/>\nJesus Ramos Jr. vs. Shane Mosley Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The weird thing about this card is the headliner. Instead of a world champion at the top of the card, Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz, the WBC interim light welterweight champion, will be defending against lightweight Lamont Roach (25-1-2, 10 KOs). You don\u2019t often see an interim champion in the main event, while a three-belt unification fight in the co-feature.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz (28-3-1, 18 KOs) is a good fighter, but he\u2019s not viewed as the best at 140 or even the third best. He\u2019s a decent talent. Roach is coming off a 12-round draw against WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis, and now he\u2019s getting another world title shot. The contenders in the WBC\u2019s top 15 rankings at 140 can\u2019t be too pleased at seeing Roach jump to the front of the line, getting a title shot without ever having competed at light welterweight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to unify four belts and make my name a part of history,\u201d said Alimkhanuly. \u201cI\u2019ve been working tirelessly on this path. I\u2019ve been calling out champions for a long time, and Lara agreed. The big fight is on December 6! God willing, I\u2019ll win my third title. History is almost made!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (31-3-3, 19 KOs) and IBF and WBO champion Janibek Alimkhnuly (17-0, 12 KOs)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}