Over the weekend boxing media were able to catch former unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and asked him numerous questions, including his thoughts on Dmitry Bivol supposedly turning down a big money offer for a rubber match in Russia. Here\u2019s some of what Beterbiev had to say below.<\/p>\n
Beterbiev on Bivol turning down a substantial offer for a third fight in Russia<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. It\u2019s true\u2026I think (if the fight ever happens), most interesting, is going to be in Moscow, in Russia. In Russia, I think is most interesting, this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
On what he made of Benavidez\u2019s performance against Yarde<\/p>\n
\u201cI watched some highlights. He did good job\u2026Of course I want to fight with (Benavidez).\u201d<\/p>\n
On the importance of getting his titles back<\/p>\n
\u201cJust one word, it\u2019s very important.\u201d<\/p>\n
On how much the offer Bivol rejected was<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know but it\u2019s not less than our couple of fights, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n
On who his favorite fighters were growing up<\/p>\n
\u201cMike Tyson and Muhammad Ali.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the weekend boxing media were able to catch former unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and asked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317581","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=317581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}