{"id":608010,"date":"2025-12-02T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608010\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:23:11","slug":"janibek-alimkhanuly-fails-ped-test-title-unification-vs-erislandy-lara-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608010\/","title":{"rendered":"Janibek Alimkhanuly fails PED test, title unification vs. Erislandy Lara in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"

IBF and WBO world middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly<\/a> has delivered an adverse analytical finding for performance-enhancing drug Meldonium following a VADA test, sources tell The Ring.
As such, the unified beltholder’s scheduled three-belt unification vs. Erislandy Lara this Saturday,<\/a> on the Isaac Cruz-Lamont Roach<\/a> undercard, is in serious jeopardy at the start of fight week.<\/p>\n

Meldonium has been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) since 2016. A 2015 study noted that it ‘demonstrates an increase in endurance performance of athletes, improved rehabilitation after exercise, protection against stress, and enhanced activations of central nervous system functions’.<\/p>\n

Per VADA’s rules, Alimkhanuly has 10 days to request analysis of the ‘B’ sample, which it seems he has moved forward with already. <\/p>\n

In response to the news, Alimkhanuly posted on X: “I have always supported clean sport you know this well. I was surprised when I read the news. VADA took the first test and said everything was clean. I have not made any changes to my vitamins. I don\u2019t know what happened with the second test, so I requested a retest.”<\/p>\n

Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KOs) is The Ring’s No. 1-rated boxer at 160-pounds and most recently defended his titles in Astana, Kazakhstan with a fifth-round stoppage win over 14-0 contender Anauel Ngamissengue<\/a> on April 5.
WBA beltholder Lara (31-3-3, 19 KOs) dropped out of The Ring’s divisional rankings through inactivity and was preparing to end a 15-month layoff after beating Danny Garcia<\/a> into submission nine rounds into their September 2024 title fight.<\/p>\n

The sport’s oldest male champion at 42, he could yet defend his WBA crown against a different opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IBF and WBO world middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly has delivered an adverse analytical finding for performance-enhancing drug Meldonium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-608010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115651608812727490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}