The rescheduled date for the undisputed combat between WBA mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol and IBF/WBC/WBO champ Artur Beterbiev was revealed final Saturday evening: October twelfth in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
It’ll be nice for the followers if the combat comes off with out one other harm postponement. Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) suffered a ruptured meniscus whereas coaching for his scheduled undisputed 175-lb championship combat in opposition to Bivol on June 1st.
The combat now has a brand new date of October twelfth, offered Beterbiev, 39, doesn’t expertise a setback. With accidents like that, you have to think about the rescheduled date tentative.
Hopefully, Beterbiev could make it via coaching camp with out his knee drawback inflicting one other postponement. Coming off from an harm like that’s difficult, and it is likely to be a bit of hasty to reschedule it for October.
Bivol’s Confidence After Zinad Struggle
“I see his weak point now. I catch him, and I can do it once more,” stated Dmitry Bivol to Boxing Social about dropping Malik Zinad in spherical one final Saturday evening. “I’m knowledgeable boxer, and I’ve to vary my ways at any time within the ring.’
Zinad was hitting Bivol repeatedly with stiff jabs and proper fingers within the first spherical, however he left himself open to a left hook and was dropped. It was a shock that Zinda was capable of hit Bivol as usually as he did, as a result of Bivol’s opponents, Canelo Alvarez and Gilberto Ramirez not often laid a glove on him of their fights.
In fact, that was two years in the past, and Bivol hasn’t regarded the identical in two consecutive fights now in opposition to Zinad and Lyndon Arthur. Bivol regarded fatigued through the build-up to Saturday’s combat with Zinda, and there are questions on whether or not he wants to maneuver as much as cruiserweight or if his age is beginning to present.
“I had sufficient time in my coaching camp to vary sparring companions ways. I really feel nice, and I will likely be prepared for October twelfth, and we are going to see,” stated Bivol.
“I don’t know what he thinks. Possibly he’s busy now and watching or not. It doesn’t matter,” stated Bivol when requested what he thought Beterbiev was considering after watching his efficiency in opposition to Zinad final evening.
Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) was lucky that the combat with Beterbeiv did get moved as a result of he regarded very beatable final evening in his combat in opposition to alternative opponent Malik Zinad (22-1, 16 KOs) on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh.
Dmitry received by a sixth-round knockout in opposition to his lower-level opponent, however he was getting hit and regarded virtually timid. Bivol regarded common in opposition to a fighter that Beterbiev would have probably blown out of the water in a single or two rounds.
