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Dmitrii Bivol will remain on the June 1 bill after Artur Beterbiev withdrew with a knee injury, facing Malik Zinad instead.

Despite the knee injury that forced Artur Beterbiev to withdraw from his planned June 1 undisputed light heavyweight title fight in Saudi Arabia, Dmitry Bivol wants to keep the date and his main event.

Artur Beterbiev suffered an injury ahead of his highly anticipated undisputed light heavyweight bout with Dmitry Bivol scheduled for June 1, postponing their fight until later in 2024.

Boxing’s traditional arenas – in Las Vegas, London, etc. – are now darker more often because of the emergence of major fight cards in Saudi Arabia.

The president of Top Rank Todd duBoef has admitted that the intervention of Saudi Arabia is what has allowed the light heavyweight unification fight between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitrii Bivol to take place with the fighters close to their primes.

Mauricio Sulaiman has been in London this week as part of the announcement of the Saudi Arabia superfight between light heavyweight champions Artur Beterbiev and Dmitrii Bivol, but the WBC president refused to talk politics.

Venezuelan light heavyweight contender Albert Ramirez has credited his meeting with Artur Beterbiev for changing the direction of his career.

Marc Ramsey, trainer of unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev, says his fighter is not frustrated by the amount of time it took to make his clash with countryman and fellow belt-holder Dmitrii Bivol. Instead, he is just focused on the task ahead.

The long awaited light heavyweight match up between Russian champions Artur Beterbiev and Dmitrii Bivol was formally announced at a press conference on Monday in London. Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) will put his IBF, WBC and WBO belts on the line against WBA champion Bivol (22-0, 11 KOs) on June 1 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The pair came face-to-face in the English capital to continue Turki Alalshikh’s ambitious vision for boxing in his country.