Thread: Janibek Alimkhanuly v Andrei Mikhailovich 10/4 Espn+

The closest fighters giving the 160 division actual life are Janibek, Adams and possibly Sheeraz. What was once a glory division is now struggling along in some anonymity. Janibek managed to unify the ibf and wbo belts last year and it went largely unnoticed. Saturday he'll have another shot at making some noise facing his #1 ibf challenger Andrei Mikhailovich 21-0 out of New Zealand. In the co-main top 135 Raymond Muratalla has a big opportunity to impress v former Spr feather champion Tevin Farmer 33-5-1.

This fight is now off. Alimkhanuly fainted & had to have IV for dehydration. He was ruled unfit to fight

Bad situation all around. Just as the division was looking for stabilization it presumably loses one of the better fighters. Janibek will likely move to 168 after this, leaving titles on the table and Mikhailovich who did everything right loses all that investment and life changing shot. Really sucks that they can't even find him a quick turnaround tba fight to at least go forward with. Raymond Muratalla takes the main event slot v Tevin Farmer.

Talk about diversion needed. Nice upset on undercard with unheralded and hardly talked about in his own home featherweight Sulaiman Segawa taking a U.10 over #1 ranked Ruben Villa. Picks up a secondary wbc belt. Southpaw quick jab was a piston and Villa looked cooked by the final round.

Muratalla and Farmer into the 2nd round

Farmer does some sharpshooting last 30 of 2nd but overall Muratalla 2-0

Muratalla doing a solid job at neutralizing the movement of Farmer. Most of 3rd fought in a large corner of the ring and he's firing right after the flashier shots of Farmer who stays close half the time. 3-0

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Bad situation all around. Just as the division was looking for stabilization it presumably loses one of the better fighters. Janibek will likely move to 168 after this, leaving titles on the table and Mikhailovich who did everything right loses all that investment and life changing shot. Really sucks that they can't even find him a quick turnaround tba fight to at least go forward with. Raymond Muratalla takes the main event slot v Tevin Farmer.

Have to feel for Andrei Mikhailovich. It's not often us Kiwi's get a shot at unified titles
Top Rank says they will pay him part of is purse
How is it a champion can faint trying to make weight & keep his titles?
Alimkhanuly needs to move up

Originally Posted by Big J

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Bad situation all around. Just as the division was looking for stabilization it presumably loses one of the better fighters. Janibek will likely move to 168 after this, leaving titles on the table and Mikhailovich who did everything right loses all that investment and life changing shot. Really sucks that they can't even find him a quick turnaround tba fight to at least go forward with. Raymond Muratalla takes the main event slot v Tevin Farmer.

Have to feel for Andrei Mikhailovich. It's not often us Kiwi's get a shot at unified titles
Top Rank says they will pay him part of is purse
How is it a champion can faint trying to make weight & keep his titles?
Alimkhanuly needs to move up

Its definitely the right thing to do as far as purse. Not sure how it works with weigh in but technically if Janibek made it onto the scale (no idea if he was on weight ?) I think he would have been stripped if over.

Originally Posted by Big J

How is it a champion can faint trying to make weight & keep his titles?

it does seem like something that someone could exploit by faking fainting to get out of missing weight on the scales

This fight is set for October 4th
Only the IBF will be up for grabs
The WBO has ruled it a non-title fight
The IBF's 2nd day weigh in should be in play
Wonder how that will affect Alimkhanuly