Janibek Alimkhanuly vs. Andrei Mikhailovich headlines on ESPN+ this Saturday, July thirteenth, with lightweights Raymond Muratalla and Tevin Farmer assembly within the co-main occasion on the Palms On line casino Resort in Las Vegas. Saturday’s occasion begins at 6:50 p.m. ET, reside on ESPN+.
Prime Rank Goals to Elevate Janibek’s Stardom
IBF and WBC middleweight champion Janibek (15-0, 10 KOs) defends his two belts towards the little-known #3 IBF Mikhailovich (21-0, 13 KOs) in a twelve-round contest.
Janibek—Mikhailovich is a combat that arguably could be higher fitted to the co-feature than the headliner as a result of it’s not one that can catch the followers’ imaginations.
It’s comprehensible why it’s within the high spot. Prime Rank desires to show Janibek right into a star, but it surely’s troublesome when his opponents aren’t family names. Bob Arum has his work lower out for him attempting to make a reputation for Janibek with out one of many courageous, formidable, widespread guys stepping as much as face him.
The issue of the 31-year-old Kazakh Janibek is that nobody desires to combat him. No well-known guys like Chris Eubank Jr. and Jermall Charlo are all in favour of dealing with the hard-hitting southpaw Janibek.
Furthermore, Terence Crawford has no plans to maneuver as much as 160 to face Janibek for his IBF/WBO titles after his match subsequent month towards Israil Madrimov.
He’ll skip the 160-lb division as a result of the highly effective southpaw Alimkhanuly could be laborious work for him and never somebody he may confuse by turning Southpaw steadily.
Muratalla vs. Farmer: An Attention-grabbing Co-Primary Occasion
The ten-round chief help combat between #2 WBC & #2 WBO light-weight contender Raymond Muratalla (20-0, 16 KOs) takes on former IBF 130-lb champion Tevin Farmer (33-5-1, 8 KOs) in a combat that ought to be attention-grabbing to look at.
Farmer has a slick model that can make the sharpshooter Muratalla to must work to land his pictures. Nevertheless, it’s unclear how a lot Farmer has left.
After shedding his IBF tremendous featherweight title to Joseph Diaz in 2020, he was out of the game for 3 years. Final yr, Farmer resumed his profession and beat three random fighters.
Farmer turns 34 on July thirtieth, and that’s not younger for a finesse fighter with no energy going up towards a younger puncher like Muratalla. It won’t finish nicely for Farmer if he can’t hold Muratalla off him.
Muratalla’s Ambitions
“I’m prepared for the light-weight champions, however I can’t take Tevin Farmer evenly. He’s a former world champion who desires one other shot,” Muratalla stated.
