Janibek pounds Gualtieri, stops him in 6th to unify 160 titles

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The current composition of the middleweight division may not have the star power it has so often had during its glorious history. There is no Marvin Hagler, Bernard Hopkins, Gennadiy Golovkin or Canelo Alvarez.

But in terms of today’s landscape, Janibek Alimkhanuly continued to establish himself as the best of the bunch and the man to beat at 160 pounds.

Alimkhanuly did as he pleased en route to pounding Vincenzo Gualtieri into a one-sided sixth-round knockout to unify the WBO and IBF world titles in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on Saturday night at the new Fort Bend Epicenter in Rosenberg, Texas, which opened in late August and is about 45 minutes outside of Houston.

It was easy work for Alimkhanuly, who applied constant pressure and landed almost as many punches as Gualtieri threw.

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