Max Boxing – Sub Lead – Artur Beterbiev

Light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) and former champion Dmitry Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) will run it back tomorrow at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. 

Their first fight was ridiculously close – so close that a rematch was demanded by just about everyone. 

Fight one was a showcase of technique and skill. Beterbiev pressed the fight, while Bivol used excellent footwork and hand speed to offset his fellow Russian. Beterbiev upped the ante in the later rounds – Bivol hung tough, but the judges saw Beterbiev the winner by scores of 116-112, 115-113, and 114-114. 

The fight could have gone either way.

Will it be repeat or revenge?

Weigh-in results:

WBC, WBO, WBA, IBF and Ring Magazine light-heavyweight titles

Artur Beterbiev 175lbs

Dmitry Bivol  174.1lbs

Joseph Parker (267) 

Martin Bakole (did not weigh in) Fight still on

WBO World Lightweight title

Shakur Stevenson 134.1lbs

Josh Padley 134lbs

WBC World Middleweight title

Carlos Adames 158.1lbs

Hamzah Sheeraz 159lbs

Vergil Ortiz Jr 153.1lbs

Israil Madrimov 152.1lbs

Zhilei Zhang  287.5lbs

Agit Kabayel  241lbs

Joshua Buatsi 175lbs

Callum Smith  174.1lbs