Eddie Hearn spoke as soon as once more with IFL TV this week, and the promoter spoke about, amongst different issues, the undercard for the October 12 gentle heavyweight unification battle between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol. The battle, to go down in Riyadh, can have a “actually good undercard,” Hearn has teased.
Followers have shortly grown used to getting stacked playing cards for the reason that highly effective Saudi moneymen got here into the game in an enormous, enormous means—and the good, value-for-money playing cards will carry on coming.
“There’s a template of the underneath card that’s in place now,” Hearn stated of the October 12 card. “Now all of the contracts are being drawn up, and clearly, Riyadh Season will make that announcement. I might say that they’ll hopefully be able subsequent week to announce the undercard for October twelfth. [It’s] a very good underneath card. You sit there once more, you simply take a look at it, and also you go, ‘How do you do this!’ You don’t see something prefer it.”
So, what fights would possibly we see on the October card? Already, followers are speculating. The lately agreed heavyweight rematch between Frazer Clarke and Fabio Wardley has been urged as a attainable undercard battle for the date, whereas we may even see a second ‘5 Vs. 5’ on the cardboard, a repeat or rematch of the Queensbury vs. Matchroom rivalry on June 1, the night time Beterbiev and Bivol had been initially set to battle.
We must always discover out what the undercard shall be subsequent week, and it appears we’ll see the announcement of yet one more stacked invoice. It’s fairly spectacular to suppose that some followers don’t like Turki Alalshikh and what he and his group are doing within the sport. Why, when all we’re getting is nice card after nice card? There simply isn’t any pleasing some folks!
As to the primary occasion on October 12, will Beterbiev’s inactivity harm him, and can the youthful, brisker Bivol get the win? Or will the sheer, unusual punching energy of Beterbiev serve him properly as soon as once more? This one will show to be well worth the wait.
