{"id":5477,"date":"2024-10-09T23:11:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T23:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/beterviev-vs-bivol-date-ringwalk-time-undercard-and-how-to-follow-undisputed-light-heavyweight-boxing-title-fight\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T23:11:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T23:11:31","slug":"beterviev-vs-bivol-date-ringwalk-time-undercard-and-how-to-follow-undisputed-light-heavyweight-boxing-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/beterviev-vs-bivol-date-ringwalk-time-undercard-and-how-to-follow-undisputed-light-heavyweight-boxing-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Beterviev vs Bivol: Date, ringwalk time, undercard and how to follow undisputed light-heavyweight boxing title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beterbiev, aged 39, is six years older than Bivol but has fought on three fewer occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were scheduled to meet on 1 June but Beterbiev had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cd1vmkpkzezo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">pull out after suffering a knee injury in training<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both fighters boast undefeated records and a combined 32 knockouts across 43 contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beterbiev, who competed as a heavyweight at the 2012 Olympics in London, has won all 20 of his fights inside the distance &#8211; the only current world champion to possess a 100 per cent knockout ratio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He first became a world champion in 2017 when he beat Enrico Kolling to claim the vacant IBF light-heavyweight belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beterbiev won the WBC strap in 2019 after stopping Oleksandr Gvozdyk and added WBO with victory against Joe Smith Jr in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bivol made his professional debut in 2014, one year after Beterbiev, but has been more active over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He won the interim WBA title in just his seventh fight in 2016 and was upgraded to the Super champion in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bivol earned a shock points victory against Saul &#8216;Canelo&#8217; Alvarez in 2022, becoming just the second man to achieve that feat after Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has 12 stoppages on his record but nine of his last 10 fights have gone the distance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c1wn5wv98l8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beterbiev, aged 39, is six years older than Bivol but has fought on three fewer occasions. They were scheduled to meet on 1 June but Beterbiev had to pull out after suffering a knee injury in training. Both fighters boast undefeated records and a combined 32 knockouts across 43 contests. Beterbiev, who competed as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}