WBC & IBF Light Heavyweight Champ Artur Beterbiev Update
By Gabriel F. Cordero
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 30 Oct 2020
Russian WBC and IBF light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev (15-0, 15KOs) will return to the ring possibly in late January 2021 could be against German challenger Adam Deines (19-1, 10 KOs).
Deines' only loss came to Chinese boxing sensation Fanlong Meng in June 2019 in an IBF light heavyweight eliminator held at Wynn Palace Cotai, Macau. After the defeat Deines returned to the ring quickly with two wins in August and September of that 2019.
Beterviev defended his IBF light heavyweight title in May 2019 with a five-round KO win over Bosnian Radivoje Kalajdzic and then unified with a ten-round TKO win over WBC Ukrainian champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk to win the WBC light heavyweight world championship and both fights was in EEUU.
Some sources had commented that Beterviev may have suffered a broken rib in training for the postponed fight against Deines scheduled for October 23 in Moscow, Russia.
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