IBF and WBO middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly will make his subsequent protection towards unbeaten Anauel Ngamissegue on April fifth in his homeland in Astana, Kazakhstan.

It’s unclear why Janibek’s administration is utilizing the 29-year-old Congo-born Ngamissegue (14-0, 9 KOs) because the challenger somewhat than one of many contenders that followers around the globe have heard of.

Ngamissegue has one notable win amongst his 14 profession victories towards Fiodor Czerkaszyn, and that was a razor-close eight-round majority determination two years in the past in 2023. Since then, Ngamissegue has fought simply as soon as, beating Sandro Jajanidze (12-32-2) by a third-round knockout on June 8, 2024. That man is fairly typical of the opposite wins on Ngamissegue’s six-year profession resume.

Sadly, this can be pretty much as good because it will get for the 2016 Olympian Janibek. He’s not widespread sufficient to get the better-known contenders to face him, like Hamzah Sheeraz, Chris Eubank Jr., and Shane Mosley Jr., to struggle him.

The middleweight division is so empty of expertise that these three are what passes for being the cream of the crop on this period, and it’s frankly pathetic. These guys wouldn’t even fee as backside feeders in the course of the top of Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin’s careers at 160.

Janibek is so good that none of these guys or any of the opposite two champions at 160 need to combine it up with him and sure get knocked out.

Final October, Alimkhanuly made straightforward work of Andrei Mikhailovich, toying with him till knocking him out within the ninth spherical of a one-sided mismatch. That struggle was onerous to look at as a result of it lacked any leisure worth.

The very best identify on Janibek’s nine-year resume is Denzel Bentley, and he had a tricky time beating him by a 12-round unanimous determination in 2022. Bently soaked up horrible punishment from Janibek however was in a position to inflict some pushing pictures of his personal by going the gap towards the drained WBO champion.