Results of the year of professional boxing in Kazakhstan. Breakthrough for Zhanibek Alimkhanuly and return of talents – Boxing/MMA

The Republican Internet portal Sports.kz remembers the main professional boxing stars from Kazakhstan and gives a forecast for their future in the next 2025.

First of all, it’s worth starting with the main boxer in Kazakhstan right now, Zhanibek Alimkhanuly. 2024 has become, to put it bluntly, an ambiguous year for him. On the one hand, he had only one fight – a mandatory defense of the IBF title against Andrei Mikhailovich. But he did not do without a scandal. Initially, the boxers were supposed to determine the strongest in the summer in Las Vegas, but a day before the fight Zhanibek ended up in the hospital due to dehydration, the fight was postponed, and Mikhailovich’s side in the person of the trainer and the boxer himself brought down a whole campaign of hate on the Kazakhstani in the media. They promised a lot, namely to deprive the world champion title without a fight, to almost demolish the “fraudster”…