{"id":658697,"date":"2026-06-26T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658697\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:13:08","slug":"dmitry-bivol-to-have-elbow-surgery-july-4-then-plans-to-face-callum-smith-in-next-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658697\/","title":{"rendered":"Dmitry Bivol to have elbow surgery July 4, then plans to face Callum Smith in next fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unified light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol will undergo surgery on his injured left elbow July 4, and will return to fight his WBO top-ranked contender Callum Smith, BoxingScene learned Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The WBO is expected to order Bivol-Smith Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bivol, 25-1 (12 KOs), through his promoter Matchroom Boxing, has informed the WBO of the plans after Bivol returned from a year\u2013plus absence connected to back surgery and defeated Michael Eifert by unanimous decision May 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unified light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol will undergo surgery on his injured left elbow July 4, and will return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,10271,9555,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-callum-smith","tag-dmitry-bivol","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658697","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=658697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}