
Janibek Alimkhanuly ready to face fellow champions Erislandy Lara and Carlos Adames
Janibek Alimkhanuly called out the other middleweight champions after his ninth-round victory over game Australian Andrew Mikhailovich.
Erislandy Lara: record, next fight and profile →

Janibek Alimkhanuly called out the other middleweight champions after his ninth-round victory over game Australian Andrew Mikhailovich.

I haven’t written a pay-per-view running diary in about 13 or 14 years, since I was filing weekly online columns for The Ring, but the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga pay-per-view, plus the Prime Video preshow — seven fights spread across some 6½ hours — presented a fine opportunity to get the gang back together and give the running diary another shot.

Danny Garcia has admitted he is now reconsidering the future of his career after enduring a one-sided defeat to Erislandy Lara at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night.


Erislandy Lara and Danny Garcia put on an anti-show Saturday in Las Vegas, with Lara doing the minimum to defend his middleweight belt and Garcia bowing out early in his debut in the division.

Let’s look at the potential storylines that will come out of Saturday's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga PPV. What are the implications for each man in the case of a win or a loss?

Danny Garcia was the co-featured attraction when Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013, beating Lucas Matthysse to defend his 140-pound WBC title for a fourth time. Eleven years later, Garcia (37-3, 21 KOs) will co-headline an Alvarez event for a second time when he challenges WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (30-3-3, 18 KOs) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

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Danny Garcia has been in this exact position before: fighting in Las Vegas, on Sept. 14, in the co-main event of a major pay-per-view card headlined by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Can he repeat?

Although briefly rendered voiceless, the verbose Angel Garcia still sought to test the limits of Erislandy Lara, who will defend his belt against Garcia’s son, Danny, Saturday in Las Vegas.