{"id":275458,"date":"2025-11-21T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275458\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:27:08","slug":"the-janibek-alimkhanuly-fight-will-solidify-my-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275458\/","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":275459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,54263,90061,78448,101,112901,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-275458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-danny-garcia","tag-erislandy-alvarez","tag-janibek-alimkhanuly","tag-sports","tag-thomas-lamanna","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275458","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=275458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}