{"id":903046,"date":"2026-09-20T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903046\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:00:11","slug":"third-bivol-beterbiev-bout-being-explored-for-spring-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903046\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Bivol-Beterbiev Bout Being Explored For Spring In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But first, <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/rankings?org=ring\">The Ring<\/a>, IBF, WBA and WBO light heavyweight champion must take care of business against his WBO mandatory challenger, <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/zfkXkR6mlruP0uSU1hyBv\">Callum Smith<\/a>, in a fight that is slated to take place on December 12 at a site to be announced in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are discussing the third fight against Beterbiev for an April or May date,\u201d Vadim Kornilov, Bivol\u2019s manager, told The Ring.<\/p>\n<p>RCC Boxing Promotions CEO German Titov separately stated that he&#8217;s looking to stage the fight at RMK Arena in Chelyabinsk, Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/2SyKQiEjb5FsnmXDtFAyi9\">Beterbiev<\/a> (21-1, 20 KOs) beat Bivol by majority decision in October 2024 to become the fully unified 175-pound champion. The Russian-born, Quebec-based Beterbiev, who will turn 42 in January, hasn\u2019t fought since the Bivol sequel and has blasted his Russian rival for dodging a third dance over the course of the last year.<\/p>\n<p>But with a renewed stance on the bout, Bivol now appears to be all in on a third encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But first, The Ring, IBF, WBA and WBO light heavyweight champion must take care of business against his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[72640,703,184736,711,49,48,24361,82,1134],"class_list":["post-903046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-featured-news","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903046","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=903046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}