Artur Beterbiev: record, next fight and profile →
Unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev’s mandatory defense against Meng Fanlong, one of the many fights postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, has a new date and location.
Kirill Shchekutyev, a deputy general secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation and a member of the WBA governing board, revealed some plans on future fights and prospects of several Russian fighters in his video-interview for the RBF’s portal two weeks ago. Here are the most interesting excerpts:
Marc Ramsay, the head trainer for WBC, IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (15-0, 15 KOs), does not expect a fight with Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez to ever take place.
By Dan Rafael - There was no news conference, no statement issued by promoter Top Rank and not so much as a tweet or Instagram post from the fighter. Instead, there were only brief comments from manager Egis Klimas earlier this month that former light heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk had retired from boxing. At age 33 and having lost his...
The first Mexican boxer to capture a super middleweight world title, Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramirez, promised to provide a surprise very soon on his return to the ring. Ramirez hopes to return by July 25, and stressed that he is targeting 175-pound world champions Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
If you fly with the hype, Joshua Buatsi could have been boxing for a world title this year. Fortunately, the Londoner is not one for believing all the grand predictions that are made about him.
Former WBC world light heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk hopes to work his way to a rematch with the division’s unified champion Artur Beterbiev. The two fighters, both unbeaten at the time, collided back in October in a WBC, IBF unification.
Artur Beterbiev, the light heavyweight world champion of the World Boxing Council (WBC) and the International Boxing Federation (IBF), reveals that he was interested in a showdown with Oleksandr Usyk, when the Olympic gold medal winner was the unified WBA, WBO, IBF, WBC cruiserweight king.
Dmitry Bivol obviously would love to challenge Canelo Alvarez. The unbeaten WBA light heavyweight champion would prefer facing Alvarez within the 175-pound division, in which Bivol has competed throughout his five-year professional career. Bivol would move down, however, to the super middleweight division to secure that high-profile opportunity and the career-high payday that would come along with it.
WBC, IBF light heavyweight Artur Beterbiev would have no problem with traveling over to the UK for a fight, according to Todd DuBoef, the president of Top Rank. Beterbiev was expected to make a mandatory defense against Meng Fanlong in Canada, but the contest was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.