{"id":573091,"date":"2026-03-31T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573091\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:00:11","slug":"artur-beterbievs-team-accuse-bivol-of-stalling-trilogy-and-plot-next-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573091\/","title":{"rendered":"Artur Beterbiev\u2019s team accuse Bivol of stalling trilogy and plot next move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artur Beterbiev<\/a> and Dmitry Bivol<\/a> provided two memorable showdowns for the undisputed light-heavyweight crown but there have been major delays for a third encounter. Now, Beterbiev\u2019s team has shared their frustration, as they eagerly await a trilogy clash.<\/p>\n

In October 2024, Beterbiev edged a majority-decision against the previously undefeated Bivol to become the first undisputed 175lb champion of the four-belt era, but in their rematch, Bivol scored a majority-decision win of his own to become the second just four months later.<\/p>\n

Since then, neither man has fought, but Beterbiev was linked to a clash with either Najee Lopez or Deon Nicholson on the David Benavidez vs. Anthony Yarde card back in November<\/a>, before reports suggested that he pulled out of the affair due to an injury.<\/p>\n

However, speaking exclusively with Boxing News, Beterbiev\u2019s trainer, Marc Ramsay, revealed that this was not the case and that Beterbiev is also currently fit and ready to fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never pulled out of that fight. They proposed that name [Najee Lopez] but that name was on a list of maybe 10 others and we always say yes to everybody, Artur Beterbiev has never refused any name.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course [Beterbiev is fully fit and ready to go]. Right now, he is in Russia and he is training in the mountains. We have had no problems, he is always training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although, despite this, Beterbiev remains without a fight date or news of when one may come, awaiting a decision from Bivol, who Ramsay believes is trying to age out his fighter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not had news regarding the trilogy for a long time. I don\u2019t know exactly what is happening in this case.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have preferred to fight Bivol about 10 years ago! They are making us wait and wait and wait. When we beat him, we gave him a rematch right away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are trying to wait until Artur is 100 years old! This is what they are trying to do right now and I\u2019m not surprised at all, but I don\u2019t know what is going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, with Bivol being confirmed for a mandatory defence of his IBF light-heavyweight crown against Germany\u2019s Michael Eifert after undergoing back surgery, Ramsay admitted that he would like Beterbiev to face an alternate opponent and remain active in preparation for a third fight with Bivol.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Bivol] has just come back from an operation, a surgery. If he is going in that direction [and fighting Eifert next], then I would like Artur to have a fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to wait on Bivol and I don\u2019t want to wait on [David] Benavidez or guys like this, I just want Artur to be active.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bivol-Eifert had been rumoured to take place as the co-main event of the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Rico Verhoeven bill at the Pyramids of Giza in May, but instead their meeting will headline a card in Yekaterinburg, Russia on Saturday, May 30<\/a>, as Bivol fights on home soil for the first time since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol provided two memorable showdowns for the undisputed light-heavyweight crown but there have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-573091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573091","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=573091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}