Unbeaten Janibek Alimkhanuly 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 becoming 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 13 September.

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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 160lb.”

If he did go down to middleweight, there would be few tougher fights for him to take than Alimkhanuly, 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 Alimkhanuly could be an attractive option for Crawford if he has ambitions to conquer a sixth weight class – and if he could beat Alimkhanuly, he may then target becoming undisputed champion in a fourth division.

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