Comments Thread For: Beterbiev Hunts For New Opponent, Barrera Bails From Fight

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

You think he will become mendatory by default if everyone avoid him?

Im not really familiar with exact rules or even if there is a precedent set for this situation. I cant recall a time off the top of my head where they couldnt find anyone to fight someone for a mandatory spot. Seems like a simple solution, though. Ill be in New York with Mark Ramsay on Saturday and will see whats happening with it. Artur wont stop training , though, of course...staying on schedule with the assumption something new will come of this very soon

[Boxing Logic]

This article is a joke. Kovalev refused the eliminator right now because he's tied up with the Ward rematch, but Kovalev is the one who offered Beterbiev a fight last year as his tune-up for Ward, and Beterbiev turned down a fair offer.

[Ind Ividual]

62k may not be much but its still more than the 45k he would have made if Duva had won the bid with her pathetic 181k offer.

[koolbreez12]

I'll have to take this with a grain of salt considering the article was written by "Team Beterbiev". Always two sides to a story. If his payout was really 62k, that's disrespectful and I don't blame Sulli. Same people trying to defend this are the same ones that argue against the payout Canelo offered GGG haha.. the hypocrisy smh

[Superbee]

This article is a joke. Kovalev refused the eliminator right now because he's tied up with the Ward rematch, but Kovalev is the one who offered Beterbiev a fight last year as his tune-up for Ward, and Beterbiev turned down a fair offer.

Kovalev isn't tied up to anything... Ward is .. He could have had a free trip to the IBF Belt facing Beterbiev, and go from there instead of crying for 3 months.. According to GYM they were offered the fight though declined fast on the Ward rematch technicality ...

[Boxcaster]

Artur Beterbiev is nobody's first pick to fight. He's dead last because it appears that he is a real threat to the division. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSzhWiz0fRU

[Superbee]

Update ... IBF moving on to an Express Process for Mando spot...

http://www.groupeyvonmichel.ca/commu...023%20mars.pdf


Google translate below ...

Artur Beterbiev will have an answer on March 23
IBF Heavyweight Heatweight Fighting Combat
PRESS RELEASE
MONTREAL, March 21, 2017 - The International Boxing Federation (IBF)
A final express process to designate a mandatory champion of the light heavyweight world, the American Andre Ward (31-0-0, 15 KW). The six
As well as the best-ranked available candidates, including Montreal's Artur
Beterbiev (# 2 IBF - 11-0-0, 11 KW) have until March 23 at 5 pm to signify
Their interest in the IBF for a knockout shock.
Beterbiev (# 2 IBF - 11-0-0, 11 KOs), the top-ranked aspirant due to his
Victory by K.-O. In the fourth round on the Spaniard Gabriel Campillo during a
Previous IBF elimination bout, has already signaled his interest.
The other aspirants whose sponsors received a letter from the IBF yesterday are
Sergey Kovalev (# 3 IBF - 30-1-1, 26 KO), Erik Skoglund (# 4 IBF - 26-0-0,
12 KW), Enrico Koelling (# 5 IBF - 23-1-0, 6 KO), Dominic Boesel (# 8 IBF
- 24-0-0, 9 KW) and Robert Stieglitz (# 9 IBF - 50-5-2, 29 KO).
If no one responded in writing to the FBI by Thursday, March 23,
5:00 pm Eastern Time, the sanctioning organization based in Springfield, New Jersey
Will consider that the aspirants approached do not want to participate and so Artur
Beterbiev will become mandatory aspirant by def

Top 10 of the IBF:
Artur Beterbiev (# 2 IBF - 11-0-0, 11 KOs), Canada via Russia
Sergey Kovalev (# 3 IBF - 30-1-1, 26 KO), United States via Russia
Erik Skoglund (# 4 IBF - 26-0-0, 12 KW), Sweden
Enrico Koelling (# 5 IBF - 23-1-0, 6 KO), Germany
Sullivan Barrera (# 6 IBF - 18-1-0, 13 KOs) - SUSPENDED, United States via Cuba
Oleksandr Gvozdyk (# 7 IBF - 12-0-0, 10 KO) - NOT AVAILABLE
Vs. Yunieski Gonzalez), Ukraine
Dominic Boesel (# 8 IBF - 24-0-0, 9 KOs), Germany
Robert Stieglitz (# 9 IBF - 50-5-2, 29 KOs), Germany via Russia
Trent Broadhurst (# 10 IBF - 20-1-0, 12 KW), Australia - NOT INVOLVED