{"id":193651,"date":"2025-10-11T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193651\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:51:08","slug":"james-toney-names-the-man-who-will-be-first-to-knock-out-dmitry-bivol-he-hits-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193651\/","title":{"rendered":"James Toney Names The Man Who Will Be First To Knock Out Dmitry Bivol: “He Hits Harder”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dmitry Bivol<\/a> has never looked close to being stopped throughout his professional career.<\/p>\n

He became undisputed light heavyweight champion earlier this year when he defeated Artur Beterbiev<\/a>, avenging the loss he suffered to his countryman in October 2024.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old has also claimed a victory over Canelo Alvarez back in May 2022, making it clear why he is viewed as the best 175lb fighter in the world.<\/p>\n

That defeat to Beterbiev is the only time Bivol hasn\u2019t won in his career, with his record currently standing at 24 wins from 25 fights, but that hasn\u2019t stopped three-weight world champion James Toney<\/a> from naming the man that he believes could knock out the Russian.<\/p>\n

Toney knows a thing or two about stoppage victories, having recorded 47 knockouts during his time as a middleweight, super-middleweight and cruiserweight world champion, and it\u2019s another former super-middleweight world champion that \u2018Lights Out\u2019 has backed to stop Bivol.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Mill City Boxing<\/a>, Toney revealed that he feels undefeated David Benavidez would be up to the task.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenavidez is busier and hits harder. He stops Bivol.\u201d<\/p>\n

After becoming a two-time world champion at 168lbs, Benavidez moved up to 175lbs, where he now reigns as the WBC light heavyweight champion after Bivol vacated the belt in order to prioritise a trilogy contest against Beterbiev.<\/p>\n

Benavidez makes the first defence of that belt on November 22 when he takes on Anthony Yarde in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia<\/a>, and a win could potentially lead to a clash with Bivol, where Toney\u2019s prediction will be put to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dmitry Bivol has never looked close to being stopped throughout his professional career. He became undisputed light heavyweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-193651","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\/193651","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=193651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}