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Unbeaten world champion offers Terence Crawford the chance to make history
Unified middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly has called out Terence Crawford and promised that fans would not want to "miss a single second” if they fought.
The Kazakh champion took to X to throw his hat into the ring as the next man to face the newly crowned undisputed super middleweight champion.
The post read: “If Crawford agreed to fight me, I would gladly face him. And our fight would be the kind of match every fan would watch with excitement, not wanting to miss a single second.”
This comes after Crawford teased the possibility of moving down to middleweight to make history by become a six-weight world champion. Only Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya have held titles in six divisions.
Crawford delivered the performance of a lifetime to topple the long-reigning king of the super middleweight division, Canelo Alvarez, in Las Vegas on September 13.
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He discussed his options post-fight and said: “I’m going to sit down with my team and we are going to discuss what is next in the future for Terence Crawford. Who knows? I might go down to 160lbs.”
If he did go down to middleweight, there would be few tougher fights for him to take than Janibek who has been in a desperate pursuit of a unification fight with WBC champion Carlos Adames since he added the WBO title to his IBF strap in April.
But he is yet to reach an agreement with Adames over a unification clash and could now turn his attention to Crawford.
A fight with Janibek could be an attractive option for Crawford if he has ambitions to conquer a sixth weight class – and if he could beat Janibek, he may then target becoming undisputed champion in a fourth division.
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