{"id":49094,"date":"2025-08-06T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/49094\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:51:08","slug":"nicholson-not-bivol-trilogy-set-for-beterbiev-on-nov-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/49094\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholson, not Bivol trilogy, set for Beterbiev on Nov. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev<\/a> will end a nine-month layoff to feature prominently on the Ring IV card come November 22, when he faces Alabama puncher Deon Nicholson<\/a> in a matchup billed as the 40-year-old’s road to redemption.
The Russian-born Canadian voiced his frustration last month<\/a> at failing to settle terms for an immediate trilogy bout with now-unified titleholder Dmitry Bivol<\/a>, having split their series one apiece after 24 thrilling rounds in the Saudi capital from October 2024 to February this year.
Bivol relinquished his WBC title<\/a>, rather than negotiate terms for a purse bid with interim champion David Benavidez<\/a> – since been elevated – while being ordered to box mandatory challenger Michael Eifert (13-1, 5 KOs) for the IBF strap<\/a>. His next move remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Benavidez, who watched the Bivol-Beterbiev rematch ringside in Riyadh, will headline Ring IV<\/a> against two-time former title challenger Anthony Yarde<\/a> in a maiden title defence at 175-pounds. After failed Benavidez negotiations, Callum Smith-David Morrell has been ordered for the former’s newly-won WBO interim title and is also mooted to feature on the bill.
Said to have received Turki Alalshikh’s blessing for a fight in their native Russia, as reported by The Ring’s Mike Coppinger<\/a>, Beterbiev (21-1, 20 KOs) will now stay-busy against another American opponent in November. He’s 8-0 with 8-0 KOs in matchups with stateside opposition but turns 41 in January as questions over longevity at an elite level persist.<\/p>\n

Nicholson (22-1, 18 KOs) is six years his junior and has reeled off eight consecutive wins, including five inside the distance, since then-unbeaten Nigerian contender Efetobor Apochi dropped and stopped him three rounds into their scheduled 12-round contest in April 2021.<\/p>\n

The nine-year pro pitched a ten-round points win over previously-unbeaten Sergio Jimenez this time last year and is most recently coming off a fourth-round finish of Devonte Williams on June 27, where he featured on the Deontay Wilder-Tyrell Herndon undercard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev will end a nine-month layoff to feature prominently on the Ring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[13042,703,49,48,33674,13037,82],"class_list":["post-49094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-artur-beterbiev","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deon-nicholson","tag-dmitry-bivol","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}