Comments Thread For: Dmitry Bivol-Artur Beterbiev III: The IBA plan to 'move forward' with bout 'by the end of the year'

[BoxingUpdates]

Presuming light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol successfully negotiates his May 30 defense against Michael Eifert, which was ordered by the IBF, then the IBA plan to move ahead with negotiations for a third bout against Artur Beterbiev
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[SouthpawRight]

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Original Top Soviet Bivol 7-5 Buff Guy Artur
Rematch Top Soviet Bivol 8-4 Buff Guy Artur

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Trilogy Top Soviet Bivol 9-3 Buff Guy Artur

2027
Top Soviet Bivol 10-2 Fat Dave
Top Soviet Bivol 8-4 Buff Guy Jai

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Original Top Soviet Bivol 7-5 Buff Guy Artur
Rematch Top Soviet Bivol 8-4 Buff Guy Artur

2026
Trilogy Top Soviet Bivol 9-3 Buff Guy Artur

2027
Top Soviet Bivol 10-2 Fat Dave
Top Soviet Bivol 8-4 Buff Guy Jai

Top Soviet will win this trilogy fight pretty wide, once crafty boxers figure someone out its a pattern, rematches just go more and more in their favor.

[Moz_boxing]

Top Soviet will win this trilogy fight pretty wide, once crafty boxers figure someone out its a pattern, rematches just go more and more in their favor.

Age plays the biggest factor in all of their fights nobody can convince me otherwise.

If Bivol would have fought Beterbiev at the time he beat Gvodzyk or Joe Smith than the fight would have ended with a late stoppage for Beterbiev. I really believe Bivol always wanted the fight but not his management and since there was never big money on the table it made it aneasy choice to avoid that fight and age Beterbiev out.

By the time the trilogy happens it has been almost another 2 years since the last fight and Beterbiev is already over 40 and highly inactive, this alone give Bivol a big edge + Bivols injury was something he carried along for long time which means the surgery was something that should bring him back more close to 100 percent than he was before so no surprise element of will he ever be the same here.

[JakeTheBoxer]

If Bivol would have fought Beterbiev at the time he beat Gvodzyk or Joe Smith than the fight would have ended with a late stoppage for Beterbiev.

You guys also predicted Beterbiev to stop Bivol when the fight actually happened, so go away with your excuses.

[Monty Fisto]

Screw holding this in Russia.

[Moz_boxing]

You guys also predicted Beterbiev to stop Bivol when the fight actually happened, so go away with your excuses.

I predicted a 50/50 fight could see Beterbiev winning but slightly leaning more towards Bivol but it was a true pick em for me and i was right little boy.

[SouthpawRight]

Top Soviet will win this trilogy fight pretty wide, once crafty boxers figure someone out it's a pattern, rematches just go more and more in their favor.

I want to see who Top Soviet Bivol beats wider Fat Dave or Saul Santos

Saul Santos better at cutting off the ring than Fat Dave

but Fat Dave better jab than Santos

Screw holding this in Russia.

as opposed to Saudi which is at high risk for missile strikes

Age plays the biggest factor in all of their fights nobody can convince me otherwise.

If Bivol would have fought Beterbiev at the time he beat Gvodzyk or Joe Smith than the fight would have ended with a late stoppage for Beterbiev. I really believe Bivol always wanted the fight but not his management and since there was never big money on the table it made it aneasy choice to avoid that fight and age Beterbiev out.

By the time the trilogy happens it has been almost another 2 years since the last fight and Beterbiev is already over 40 and highly inactive, this alone give Bivol a big edge + Bivols injury was something he carried along for long time which means the surgery was something that should bring him back more close to 100 percent than he was before so no surprise element of will he ever be the same here.

You guys also predicted Beterbiev to stop Bivol when the fight actually happened, so go away with your excuses.

I predicted a 50/50 fight could see Beterbiev winning but slightly leaning more towards Bivol but it was a true pick em for me and i was right little boy.

Joe Smith Absolute Peak Buff Guy Artur doesn't stop Top Soviet Bivol either too much footwork defense, durability, stamina, and ring iq.

it'd be a real 6-6

random euroid Adam went to the 10th round with young Artur. So did Gvozdyk

Neither had the stamina, footwork defense, durability, and ring iq of Top Soviet Bivol

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Age plays the biggest factor in all of their fights nobody can convince me otherwise.

If Bivol would have fought Beterbiev at the time he beat Gvodzyk or Joe Smith than the fight would have ended with a late stoppage for Beterbiev. I really believe Bivol always wanted the fight but not his management and since there was never big money on the table it made it aneasy choice to avoid that fight and age Beterbiev out.

By the time the trilogy happens it has been almost another 2 years since the last fight and Beterbiev is already over 40 and highly inactive, this alone give Bivol a big edge + Bivols injury was something he carried along for long time which means the surgery was something that should bring him back more close to 100 percent than he was before so no surprise element of will he ever be the same here.

Bivol has a style to prevent himself from getting stopped and neuter larger or more heavy handed opponent's advantages, so I don't see him getting stopped by a younger Artur. We are going to see what happens at the end of the year and based on their previous two fights and dynamics I have seen again and again watching boxing since the 90s I predict a clear wide decision for Top Soviet.

[Monty Fisto]

as opposed to Saudi which is at high risk for missile strikes

I was going to add that there are fewer and fewer places that are safe or deserve to host it for various reasons, but didn't want to get bogged down in the geopolitics. In the end I decided the simplest thing was what I wrote: screw Russia hosting this.