{"id":120838,"date":"2025-09-07T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120838\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:30:05","slug":"dmitry-bivol-names-the-current-best-fighter-in-the-world-hes-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120838\/","title":{"rendered":"Dmitry Bivol Names The Current Best Fighter In The World: “He’s Amazing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dmitry Bivol<\/a> has revealed who he believes to be the best fighter on the planet, pound-for-pound.<\/p>\n

The Russian superstar achieved his career long dream of becoming the undisputed light-heavyweight champion earlier this year when he defeated countryman Artur Beterbiev in their much anticipated rematch.<\/p>\n

Bivol beat Beterbiev via majority decision at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on February 22, avenging the defeat that he suffered to the 40-year-old just four months earlier.<\/p>\n

The Russian duo were expected to meet in a trilogy showdown, however talks seem to have stalled and Beterbiev is fighting in November as Bivol recovers from an injury.<\/p>\n

Another option the now three-belt champion, after he vacated the WBC belt to be picked up by David Benavidez, is a rematch with Canelo Alvarez<\/a>. However, the Mexican must first overcome Terence Crawford, and Bivol believes he has his hands full.<\/p>\n

Speaking to DAZN Boxing, Bivol paid homage to unbeaten American star, calling him the best active fighter on the planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrawford is amazing, not just good, he\u2019s amazing \u2026 I think he should be in the book for how to learn boxing you know \u2026 Yeah probably he is [P4P number 1] now because he\u2019s undisputed champion in two weight classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Bud\u2019 Crawford is less than one week away from facing Mexican superstar Canelo for the undisputed super-middleweight championship in Las Vegas on September 13.<\/a><\/p>\n

Having already captured all four belts in two divisions, the 37-year-old from Omaha could become the first fighter in modern boxing to achieve this feat in three weight classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dmitry Bivol has revealed who he believes to be the best fighter on the planet, pound-for-pound. The Russian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-120838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}