{"id":754674,"date":"2026-06-23T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754674\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:38:10","slug":"artur-beterbiev-says-dmitry-bivol-trilogy-comes-before-david-benavidez-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754674\/","title":{"rendered":"Artur Beterbiev Says Dmitry Bivol Trilogy Comes Before David Benavidez Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add EBoxing News 24as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqLAgKIiZDQklTRmdnTWFoSUtFR0p2ZUdsdVoyNWxkM015TkM1amIyMG9BQVAB?ceid=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow Boxing News 24 on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want the rubber match,\u201d said Beterbiev <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"DAZN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingnews24.com\/go\/dazn-3\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">on DAZN<\/a>\u2019s Inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ring<\/a>. \u201cI think everyone wants [the] rubber match, and I feel good. If you want to check if I\u2019m good or not, make this fight happen, and I will show you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beterbiev and Bivol are tied at one victory apiece following their two undisputed championship fights. Beterbiev insists he should be entering a third meeting with a 2-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe I won the second fight better than the first one,\u201d Beterbiev said. \u201cFor sure, the third fight is going to happen [and] I\u2019ll do better than both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old also suggested that Bivol has not been eager to finalize a third fight despite widespread interest in the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m expecting the third fight to happen in minimum five or six months,\u201d Beterbiev said, \u201cbut he doesn\u2019t want to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interest has continued to grow in a potential clash between Beterbiev and Benavidez, who recently became a three-division world champion by stopping Gilberto Ramirez to capture the WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles.<\/p>\n<p>Beterbiev said he remains open to facing Benavidez in the future, but only after completing unfinished business with Bivol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect what Benavidez did already in boxing,\u201d Beterbiev said. \u201cHe became a three-category world champion, and I\u2019m not avoiding this kind of fights with Benavidez or someone else. First, I\u2019m more focused to do rubber match [versus Bivol].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bivol currently holds The Ring, WBA, IBF, and WBO light heavyweight titles after defeating Michael Eifert on May 30 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. No date has been announced for a third fight between Bivol and Beterbiev.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Galm is a boxing journalist who has covered the global fight landscape since 2014, specializing in heavyweight analysis, industry trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI really want the rubber match,\u201d said Beterbiev on DAZN\u2019s Inside The Ring. \u201cI think everyone wants [the]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-754674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}