{"id":28414,"date":"2020-03-12T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/janibek-alimkhanuly-defiende-titulo-continental-de-las-americas\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:07:30","slug":"janibek-alimkhanuly-readies-to-defend-wbc-continental-americas-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/janibek-alimkhanuly-readies-to-defend-wbc-continental-americas-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Janibek Alimkhanuly readies to defend \u00a0WBC\u00a0 Continental Americas belt \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Janibek Alimkhanuly readies to defend \u00a0WBC\u00a0 Continental Americas belt \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>World Boxing Council continental middleweight champion of the Americas, Kazakh Janibek Alimkhanuly (8-0-0, 4 kos) will defend his title against Ghanaian \u00a0Issah Samir (18-0-0, 15 kos), on March 28 at the Videotron Center in Quebec City, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>This interesting unfeated clash will be part of the undercard led by WBC light heavyweight \u00a0champion Arthur Beterbiev (15-0, 15) against Chinese Fanlong Meng (16-0, 10 knockouts). Both fights will be broadcast on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Alimkhanuly (8-0, 4 KOs), is a 26-year-old southpaw from Kazakhstans coached \u00a0by International Boxing Hall of Fame member Buddy McGirt. He had over 300 amateur fights, won a gold medal at the 2013 amateur world championships, and was an Olympian in 2016, reaching the quarterfinals in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>Samir (18-0, 15 KOs), 30, from Ghana, was a 2008 Olympian who turned as pro in 2011. He will fight outside of his home country for the first time as a professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janibek Alimkhanuly readies to defend \u00a0WBC\u00a0 Continental Americas belt \u00a0 World Boxing Council continental middleweight champion of the Americas, Kazakh Janibek Alimkhanuly (8-0-0, 4 kos) will<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}