Since its inception, Riyadh Season has supplied battle followers with entertaining 50/50 fights, and on Saturday night time, October twelfth, Riyadh Season presents the final word 50/50 contest, as WBA light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol will face WBC, WBO, IBF champion Artur Beterbiev.

At occasions, it appeared as if the potential Beterbiev vs. Bivol conflict would fall beneath the class of nice fights that by no means occurred. Luckily the 2 combatants have been in a position to attain an settlement, and the bout is about to happen on October twelfth at Kingdom Area, in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, reside on ESPN+.

This battle for undisputed has all the weather with regard to this battle being an immediate basic. It’s the standard boxer versus puncher matchup through which each boxers are undefeated and so they’re each at the moment acting at a excessive degree.

Dmitry Bivol was previously launched to most of the people again in Could 2022 when he battled a person who many take into account to be the face of boxing. Throughout his title protection towards Canelo Alvarez, the WBA world champion unleashed his complete repertoire.

Bivol managed the space, he used the jab, he persistently landed straight punches, his timing was on level, his counterattack was sharp, and he was defensively accountable. On the conclusion of the 12-round world title contest, Dmitry Bivol earned a unanimous resolution victory.

Six months later, Bivol defended his title towards a Mexican boxer who got here into the bout with 44 victories and no defeats. As soon as once more, Bivol flexed his ring generalship and his technical expertise as he out-pointed Gilberto Ramirez.

Again in June 2024, after successful 9 straight bouts by the use of unanimous resolution, Bivol lastly stopped an opponent when he scored a sixth-round TKO victory over Malik Zinad. Now Dmitry Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) is on the verge of going through the hardest problem of his skilled profession.

As a boxer beneath the Prime Rank umbrella, Artur Beterbiev persistently scored spectacular knockouts on the ESPN telecasts. Every time Beterbiev stepped contained in the squared circle, he overwhelmed his opponent with devastating energy.

In June 2022, WBC, IBF light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev traveled to New York to face the WBO light-heavyweight champion Joe Smith Jr. In a puncher vs puncher matchup, Artur Beterbiev dominated the New York native Joe Smith in entrance of his house crowd.

Within the remaining seconds of the opening spherical, Beterbiev caught Smith coming in as he landed a tough overhand proper that despatched Smith right down to the canvas. Smith was in a position to stand up, however he would revisit the canvas twice within the second spherical.

After getting up from the third knockdown, Smith was badly harm when Beterbiev landed a tough uppercut that made the referee step in and put a halt to the competition. Beterbiev would go on to attain knockout victories over Anthony Yarde and Callum Smith.

Now, the present unified light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) plans on defeating Dmitry Bivol, and engaging in his aim of turning into an undisputed world champion.

Artur Beterbiev is a talented, hard-hitting energy puncher who likes to press ahead. Beterbiev  has a strong jab, he has good punch placement, and he has the flexibility to battle off of his again foot.

Dmitry Bivol is an elite boxer who has all of the instruments. Bivol has the IQ, accuracy, timing, the footwork, punch placement, he’s a superb counterpuncher, and he has the flexibility to set traps.  With all of Bivol’s skills, probably the most intriguing query is what’s going to occur as soon as Beterbiev cuts the ring off?

Even though Dmitry Bivol has an immense quantity of boxing expertise, there’ll come a time through the course of this matchup when Bivol should stand his floor and battle Beterbiev.

In 1999, Corridor of Fame boxer Roy Jones Jr was the final undisputed light-heavyweight champion of the three-belt period. On Saturday night time, within the extremely anticipated legacy battle, the winner of the Beterbiev-Bivol bout will turn into the primary undisputed light-heavyweight champion of the four-belt period.