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ASTANA – Kazakh boxer and 2013 world amateur boxing champion Zhanibek Alimkhanuly has signed up with well-known manager Egis Klimas and will fight professionally in the same division as world champion Kazakh middleweight Gennady Golovkin. He hopes to fight a championship out in approximately two years.
Zhanibek Alimkhanuly. Photo credit: kfb.kz
Alimkhanuly has earned a well-deserved reputation in amateur boxing, quickly rising to the top of the middleweight division in 2013. The fast puncher with power shots, Alimkhanuly turned pro after the Olympics in Rio-de-Janeiro. In his first professional fight …read more
Source: The Astana Times
