By: Sean Crose
Undefeated WBO middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly put his title belt on the road Saturday evening on the Palms Casino Resort in Vegas. The 12-0 Alimkhanuly was seeking to impress, as he had indicated different champions weren’t desperate to get within the ring with him. If the Kazakh native had been to face any likelihood of getting a giant combat sooner moderately than later, nevertheless, he must get previous the 17-1-1 Denzel Bentley. The Alimkhanuly-Bentley bout was scheduled for 12 championship rounds.
Alimkhanuly labored behind his southpaw jab within the first. Bentley tried to take care of vary and flick a jab of his personal within the second, however wasn’t capable of finding a lot success. Alimkhanuly, in the meantime, was clearly on the lookout for a technique to land an influence shot on his opponent. In the third, it appeared the Kazakh warrior was beginning to land successfully on the challenger. Bentley’s drawback was easy – if he wished to be extra energetic he would make himself open to the arduous hitting Alimkhanuly’s pictures.
It was price questioning by the fourth spherical if Bentley would be capable of survive till the ultimate bell. While he wasn’t being badly damage, he was most actually taking just a few heavy pictures with out sending something again in return. With that being mentioned, Bentley was capable of land a some good punches of his personal within the fifth. The sixth noticed Alimkhanuly providing quite a lot of appears to be like whereas persevering with to search for sports activities to assault behind his jab. The awkward Alimkhanuly was capable of land successfully within the seventh, whereas Bentley tried using efficient aggression.
The eighth was a troublesome spherical to guage, as every man had his moments in what was persevering with to be a quick paced bout. “We gotta back this guy up,” veteran coach Buddy McGirt mentioned to Alimkhanuly in between rounds. Why Alimkhanuly prevented doing physique work within the excessive octane ninth, in addition to within the earlier eight rounds, was a thriller. To be certain, Bentley piled on the pictures within the tenth. The penultimate spherical was one during which Alimkhanuly picked method at Bentley from vary. Bentley, nevertheless, remained aggressive to the top.
In the twelfth and closing spherical, Alimkhanuly proved he merely hit too arduous for Bentley to drag out the win. Bentley stayed on his toes, however he didn’t do sufficient to win the spherical, though he actually tried. Hurt and exhausted, Bentley spent the ultimate spherical avoiding his man, then courageously confronting Alimkhanuly. Bentley’s face, nevertheless, was displaying indicators of a horrible beating. Suffice to say, it was no shock when Alimkhanuly was awarded the unanimous determination victory courtesy of the ringside judges.
