The Ring<\/a>: “I believe it’s going to come to a point where the money is going to be considerably low for the biggest fight of my career.<\/p>\n“To me, it doesn’t really make sense, especially being a champion as well… It could be a good offer, I’m praying it is and then it’s simple, the fight goes ahead.<\/p>\n
“But I have a funny feeling it won’t be, we’ll see what happens.”<\/p>\n
It can be argued that Alimkhanuly hasn’t earned the shot.<\/p>\n
The 17-0 (12 KOs) Kazakh, based in Oxnard California, has not competed above the middleweight limit since 2019 and has been inactive since April 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That December, ahead of an aborted fight with Erislandy Lara, he tested positive for banned substance meldonium. The WBO issued a one-year suspension while allowing him to retain his middleweight belt before he signalled his intention to step up a weight class.<\/p>\n
Alimkhanuly will regardless represent a step up from Sheeraz’s most recent foes. He won the vacant belt in May against Alem Begic before making his first defense against Simon Zachenhuber two months later.<\/p>\n
ESPN reports<\/a> that November 28 or December 5 have been put forward as preferred dates for the fight, with London or Birmingham in England and New York City as proposed locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions won the purse bid for the Hamzah Sheeraz-Janibek Alimkhanuly WBO super middleweight title bout.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,9732,78448,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-hamzah-sheeraz","tag-janibek-alimkhanuly","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774623","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=774623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}