Dmitry Bivol: record, next fight and profile →
For most of his career, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez has been up to the challenge, steadily moving up in weight and taking on opponents and fighters that would build a Hall of Fame legacy. Are those days over?
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.
Photos from the Artur Beterbiev-Dmitrii Bivol Press Conference
As if a 20-0 start with 20 knockouts and three light-heavyweight belts isn’t enough of a feat, Artur Beterbiev Monday apparently set out to record a world record for fewest words spoken at a press conference by a major boxing headliner.
Artur Beterbiev and Dmitrii Bivol came head-to-head in London this afternoon to formalise their fight in Saudi Arabia on June 1.