{"id":358432,"date":"2026-01-08T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358432\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:04:10","slug":"dmitry-bivol-planning-spring-return-against-michael-eifert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358432\/","title":{"rendered":"Dmitry Bivol planning spring return against Michael Eifert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Vadim Kornilov, manager of unified light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pugboxing\/status\/2008776247124316246\" rel=\"nofollow\">tells Lance Pugmire<\/a> that his charge intends to return in \u201cMarch or April\u201d against IBF mandatory challenger Michael Eifert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per Kornilov, Bivol (24-1, 12 KO) underwent back surgery this past August and intends to return to camp \u201csoon.\u201d Bivol overcame an awful stretch in the middle rounds to claim a majority decision over rival Artur Beterbiev in their February rematch, then vacated the WBC title in the face of a potential showdown with then-interim champion David Benavidez, who went on to smoke Anthony Yarde after being elevated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vadim Kornilov, manager of unified light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol, tells Lance Pugmire that his charge intends to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-358432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358432","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=358432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}