By: Sean Crose
The extremely anticipated June 1st combat between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol has been postponed because of an ruptured meniscus suffered by Beterbiev. This is dangerous information for combat followers, in fact, as accidents have plagued the 20-0 Beterbiev’s profession. What’s extra, the world has been ready a very long time for Beterbiev and the 22-0 Bivol to sq. off within the ring. On high of that the winner of a Beterbiev-Bivol match would turn out to be the undisputed mild heavyweight champion of the world. As issues stand, Beterbiev – who has stopped each final one among his opponents inside the distance – holds the WBC, WBO, and IBF titles whereas Bivol holds the WBA belt.
Fortunately, there are nonetheless sufficient terrific matches on the June 1st card, together with Deontay Wilder versus Zhilei Zhang and Daniel Dubois verses Filip Hrgovic, for the present to go on. “The fight scheduled for Saturday, June 1 at Kingdome Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has been postponed,” Top Rank Promotions said in a press launch, “after Beterbiev suffered a ruptured meniscus in training. The plan is to reschedule Beterbiev-Bivol before the end of the year, and additional details will be provided in due course.” Beterbiev-Bivol was set to go down in Saudi Arabia, and there’s no cause to imagine it’ll go down wherever else, ought to this endlessly awaited battle lastly come to fruition.
