Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn says he’ll be able to make a rematch between gentle heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol and Canelo Alvarez in 2025, no matter whether or not Bivol wins his subsequent struggle in opposition to unified 175-lb champion Artur Beterbiev on October twelfth in Riyadh.
Hearn states that if WBA champion Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) defeats IBF, WBC, and WBO champ Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) of their 12-round contest on the Kingdom Enviornment subsequent month, he’ll have the possibility to make the undisputed championship match between Dmitry and Canelo.
If Bivol loses to Beterbiev, he can drop right down to 168 to face unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo for his three titles. Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) not too long ago talked about desirous to struggle a rematch with Bivol, 33, if he’s victorious in opposition to Beterbiev on October twelfth. Nonetheless, Canelo didn’t say something about desirous to nonetheless struggle Bivol if he’s coming off a loss and is belt-less.
That’s loads much less interesting for Canelo for apparent causes. He has nothing to achieve from combating Bivol beneath these situations. From Hearn’s perspective, it’s comprehensible why he would need Bivol to struggle Canelo subsequent, win or lose, as a result of he promotes the Russian fighter, and the cash {that a} rematch would herald could be substantial.
Bivol gained’t make the identical sort of money combating anybody else at 175, and his profession is perhaps sunk to the underside in a rematch with Beterbiev if he’s blown out of their October twelfth struggle. The very last thing Hearn would need is for Bivol to be knocked out a second time by Beterbiev and be caught with a tarnished fighter.
“If Dmitry Bivol beats Artur Beterbiev, we now have the chance to do Dmitry Bivol in opposition to Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed gentle heavyweight world championship, which impulsively brings one other sort of attraction to the [Beterbiev-Bivol] struggle for Canelo,” stated Eddie Hearn to Boxing Information, discussing his hopes for a rematch between Canelo and Bivol.
Canelo misplaced to Bivol by a 12 spherical unanimous choice two years in the past on Might 7, 2022, in Las Vegas. The scores had been 115-113, 115-113 and 115-113. Nonetheless, the struggle was far more one-sided than the scores the three judges on the T-Cell Enviornment turned in.
“If Dmitry had been to lose [to Beterbiev[, he could drop down to 168 to challenge Canelo Alvarez, which he’s capable of doing. So, obviously, we want to see Dmitry win this fight, and if Canelo wants it, I would love to make that happen,” said Hearn.
