Meiirim Nursultanov

Bio

Right then, Meiirim Nursultanov is exactly the sort of fighter the middleweight division quietly hopes it does not have to deal with. Unbeaten in twenty professional fights with eleven knockouts, the Kazakh has been carrying a heavy amateur education and a WBO International belt around since 2022 without ever quite being given the platform his record deserves.

The style is classical European. Upright posture, a jab that never stops working, a tight shell defence and very little wasted movement. He does not chase you around the ring and he does not panic when you come at him. If you want a fight you have to bring it to him, and that is precisely where he does his best work.

The obvious caveat is the inactivity. Three years away from the ring is a long time at thirty-two, and nobody — including his opponents' camps — really knows which version turns up. That cuts both ways. There is no recent film to study, which means there is no way to prepare for what he has changed.