Artur Petrov It will make the first defense of the undisputed lightweight heavyweight championship in a match against a match against Dmitry Bever Saturday in Kingdom Arena in RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (DAZN PPV, 11 AM Et).
Beterbiev defeated (21-0, 20 KOS) Bivol By the majority decision last October To add WBA belt to WBC, WBO and IBF addresses. This was the first time that BESBIEV has passed at the distance, as the Ko series ended 20 battle. Beerbiev has occupied at least one of the belts since November 11, 2017-a seven-year-old impressive era as a hero. This will be the tenth Beerbiev defense for the IBF title, the seventh defense of the WBC title, the fourth of the WBO title and the first WBA belt.
After his victory over Bevol, Petersbiv said he was not happy with his performance and that he needed to improve.
“Today I wanted to win more quality,” said Biripeev. “I don’t know why, but I didn’t like this battle. But I will be the best day.”
Bever (23-1, 12 Cos) suffered from the defeat of his first career against Petersbiv. More than Beterbiev (142 to 137) was more effective, 34 % of those punches fell to only 20 % for Beterbiev, but this was not enough. Lost results cards 113-115, 112-116 and 114-114.
“I have another opportunity,” said Bever. “Not a lot of people get another chance. People love the battle they saw the first time and want to see it again, they see me in the ring again. It is good, I must work for it.”
Beterbiev is a simple favorite to win the return match to -125 for each ESPN bet.
In the joint event, Joseph Parker will now face Martin Bacol after IBF Daniel Dubua champion To withdraw from the fighting due to the disease Thursday. The winner of the battle can turn to a battle against Oleksandr usyk The championship is undisputed.
Parker (35-3, 23 Cos), a former WBO heavy weight champion, rides a five-time winning line, including decision-wins on Deontay Wilder In 2023 and Zhilei Zhang last March.
Bakole (21-1, 16 KOS) won 10 consecutive battles (eight by Stoppage) since Michael Hunter’s loss in 2018. In August, Bacol Jared Anderson was defeated by the fifth round Co On the Tender Crawford-VISRILIL MADRIMOV card in Los Angeles.
Let’s take a look at both battles through numbers, with data from Espn Research and Compubox.
Artur Peteberv vs. Dmitry Bever
23: The number of Beterbiev and Bivol joint battles of the title battles (BIVOL 13, BETERBIEV 10).
3: Male boxes born in Russians carry at least three world titles (bertbiev, Kostya Tszyu and Sergey Kovalev).
12: The undisputed men’s heroes in the four boxing age.
1: Undoubtedly heavyweight hero in the belt era. Beterbiev got this distinction with a narrow victory over Bivol in October. With his victory in Saturday’s match, BETERBIEv will just become the seventh fighter in the era of the four players to defend an undisputed title.
50 %: The percentage of punching punches that fell by BIVOL against BETERBIEV in its first confrontation (84 out of 168), compared to only 29 % for Beterbiev (90 out of 306). Bivol was also more effective in Jabs fell by 23 % (58 out of 255) to only 13 % for Beerbiev (47 out of 376). Bifol 142 of the total punches 423 fell (34 %), to Beterbiev’s 137 out of 682 (20 %). Beterbiev was the most active fighter, with 259 punching more than BETERBIEV, and width steady pressure.
33: Punches fell by BIVOL in the first six rounds of his first battle, against only 23 for BETERBIEV. But it was a different story in the last six rounds, where BEERBIEV 67 fell from the punches to Bivol’s 51. In the last two rounds, these numbers were more impressive for Beerbiev, who fell 29 of the punches to Bivol 19.
13.8 %: The percentage of punches fell against Bever in his 24 professional battles, including his defeat to Petrebif. Bivol is one of the best defensive fighters in the world. Only lightweight hero only Shakour Stephenon Less percentage (13.7 %) is allowed. Bever also lands 8.4 strikes each round. Compare this to 6.0 for Beerbiev and only 4.6 for the light heavyweight department.
8 and 4: The number of rounds, among the 12 rounds that fought in their first meeting, where BETERBIEV and Bivol were separated by four punches or less.
30.1 %: Beterbiev’s total percentage fell in the round – 18.2 from 60.5.
34 %: Celsius of the total punches of Bever landed on BETERBIEV in its first battle. Peterfiv’s opponents fell before the Battle of Bever 23.2 % of the total punches.
65.2: The percentage of Piveol met – the highest percentage between the heroes and the competitors for the title.
6: The number of the title fights on the main card. Beterbiev-BIVOL 2 features three major world title battles and three battles for temporary titles. Before Dubois withdrew, there were seven battles for the title in general, and four main titles.
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Battle of the title: ARTUR BEERBIEV VS. Dmitry Bivol, 12 rounds, for the undisputed heavyweight BETERBIEV Championship
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Joseph Parker against Martin Bacol, 12 rounds, heavy weight
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Battle of the title: Shakur Stefenson against Josh Badli, 12 rounds, to get the Stephenson title lightweight
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Battle of the title: Carlos Aders vs Hamza Shiraz, 12 rounds, for the title of Aders in medium weight
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Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. ISrail Madrimov, 12 rounds, for the temporary VACANT JUNIOR MEDLEDLIGHT
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Joshua Buatsi vs. Callum Smith, 12 rounds, for the light heavy weight of BBO’s WBO for heavy weight
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Zhilei Zhang Vs. Agit Kabayel, 12 rounds, for the heavy heavy WBC title
95 %: Beterbiev’s knockout in its 21st professional battles, which is the highest rate among all current heroes. After his distinguished amateur career, Beterbiev later turned what is used to the boxer, when he moved to Montreal at the age of 28. It enters the match against Bivol at the age of 40, which makes him the second oldest highly recognized hero. It is 1-2 in three amateur battles against USYK, the current unified heavy weight hero.
Joseph Parker against Martin Bacol
5: Parker winning chain. It also won 11 of the last 12 battles. Parker, a former heavy weight hero, comes in a series of five years, including 11 from the last 12 years. His only loss in this time frame was against Joe Joyce in 2022.
10: Successive victories by Bacol since losing to Michael Hunter in 2018. Bacol won eight of those battles by StopPage, including Ko in the fifth round of Jared Anderson in August.
38.7 %: The percentage of punching punches for the body that lands. Average compubox for heavy weight division is 29.5 %.
28.7 %: The percentage of punches fell against Parker. 35.3 % of punches are the strength of the opponents. Parcker 12 punches drop per round (28.5 %).
195: The punches he threw in his battle against Anderson, where 68 of those punches landed.
13: The punches that fell by Bacol, 14, fell in the fifth round against Anderson before the fighting stopped at 2:06 pm.
