{"id":470907,"date":"2026-03-12T05:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470907\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:20:11","slug":"janibek-alimkhanuly-stripped-of-ibf-title-after-failed-drug-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470907\/","title":{"rendered":"Janibek Alimkhanuly stripped of IBF title after failed drug test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Donovan goes in-depth with the ruling; effectively, the IBF\u2019s mandatory one-year suspension would push Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KO) past his July 4th deadline to defend against a mandatory challenger. He had fought just twice in the prior two years, stopping Andrei Mikhailovich and Anauel Ngamissengue in his lone bouts of \u201824 and \u201825.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alimkhanuly failed the test just prior to a long-awaited unification bout against Erislandy Lara, then saw his B-sample come up positive as well. Per a Kazakhstan Professional Boxing Federation report acquired by Donovan, Alimkhanuly unknowingly \u201cingested the substance in question from an emergency medical visit\u201d the previous May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The IBF does not currently have a top contender at 160. Etinosa Oliha sits at no. 2, followed by Shakiel Thompson, Aaron McKenna, and Amari Jones. Oliha does not presently have an opponent, while Thompson is slated to face Brad Pauls later this month; we\u2019ll let you know how the situation plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donovan goes in-depth with the ruling; effectively, the IBF\u2019s mandatory one-year suspension would push Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KO)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470907","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=470907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}