Who will win the upcoming battle for the undisputed gentle heavyweight world championship between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol?
Developing on October twelfth, from the Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in a battle for undisputed supremacy within the gentle heavyweight division, WBA champion Dmitry Bivol will sq. off towards unified IBF/WBC/WBO and lineal world gentle heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev.
This showdown between 2 undefeated champions was initially scheduled to occur again on June 1st. However the battle obtained postponed after Beterbiev suffered a ruptured meniscus in early Could. Bivol discovered a alternative opponent and took on Malik Zinad on the exact same day he was imagined to face Beterbiev, and Bivol beat Zinad by sixth spherical stoppage.
Beterbiev is an ideal 20-0 with all 20 wins impressively coming inside the gap. Bivol is an ideal 22-0 with 11 of these wins coming inside the gap. These information replicate the 2 common views going into this one, that both Beterbiev stops him inside the gap, or Bivol outboxes Beterbiev over the 12 spherical length. However a Beterbiev choice or a Bivol stoppage are attainable as effectively, as is a attract what most understand as a real 50-50 choose’em battle.
This battle of undefeated gentle heavyweight champions is lengthy overdo. Beterbiev received his first championship all the way in which again in November 2017, and Bivol obtained his main championship again in October 2019 when he was promoted from the minor common WBA trinket to the so-called tremendous belt. So by the point these two lastly sq. off, it’s going to have been 5 years since these two have each reigned as champions at 175.
The winner of this bout will produce the primary undisputed world gentle heavyweight champion throughout the fashionable 4-belt period, and technically talking, it’s going to produce the primary undisputed world gentle heavyweight champion since Roy Jones Jr final held all the main belts again in 2002. However in actuality, it’s really the primary undisputed world gentle heavyweight champion since Michael Spinks final held that distinction all the way in which again in 1985. The excellence right here being that, along with holding each main belt of his day, Spinks additionally held a legitimate declare to the lineal championship. Roy didn’t, as he by no means confronted or beat the lineal gentle heavyweight champion Dariusz Michalzcewski. And the Michaczewski lineage is the one which adopted down the road to Beterbiev at the moment.
The Beterbiev v Bivol essential occasion will probably be broadcast reside on DAZN Pay-Per-View worldwide (excluding USA and Canada the place solely the principle occasion will probably be on ESPN+)
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So who will win the battle for undisputed gentle heavyweight supremacy between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol?
This version of Rummy’s Nook will try to reply that query whereas offering a fast preview for the upcoming showdown between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol. Please watch and benefit from the video for one man’s opinion. That is Rummy’s Nook (produced and narrated by Geoffrey Ciani).
