Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn says he’ll be able to make a rematch between mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol and Canelo Alvarez in 2025, no matter whether or not Bivol wins his subsequent combat towards unified 175-lb champion Artur Beterbiev on October twelfth in Riyadh.
Hearn states that if WBA champion Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) defeats IBF, WBC, and WBO champ Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) of their 12-round contest on the Kingdom Area subsequent month, he’ll have the prospect to make the undisputed championship match between Dmitry and Canelo.
If Bivol loses to Beterbiev, he can drop right down to 168 to face unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo for his three titles. Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) just lately talked about eager to combat a rematch with Bivol, 33, if he’s victorious towards Beterbiev on October twelfth. Nonetheless, Canelo didn’t say something about eager to nonetheless combat Bivol if he’s coming off a loss and is belt-less.
That’s rather a lot much less interesting for Canelo for apparent causes. He has nothing to achieve from preventing Bivol below these situations. From Hearn’s perspective, it’s comprehensible why he would need Bivol to combat Canelo subsequent, win or lose, as a result of he promotes the Russian fighter, and the cash {that a} rematch would herald can be substantial.
Bivol gained’t make the identical type of money preventing anybody else at 175, and his profession is perhaps sunk to the underside in a rematch with Beterbiev if he’s blown out of their October twelfth combat. The very last thing Hearn would need is for Bivol to be knocked out a second time by Beterbiev and be caught with a tarnished fighter.
“If Dmitry Bivol beats Artur Beterbiev, we’ve the chance to do Dmitry Bivol towards Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed mild heavyweight world championship, which abruptly brings one other type of attraction to the [Beterbiev-Bivol] combat for Canelo,” stated Eddie Hearn to Boxing Information, discussing his hopes for a rematch between Canelo and Bivol.
Canelo misplaced to Bivol by a 12 spherical unanimous resolution two years in the past on Could 7, 2022, in Las Vegas. The scores have been 115-113, 115-113 and 115-113. Nonetheless, the combat was way more one-sided than the scores the three judges on the T-Cellular Area turned in.
“If Dmitry have been to lose [to Beterbiev[, he could drop down to 168 to challenge Canelo Alvarez, which he’s capable of doing. So, obviously, we want to see Dmitry win this fight, and if Canelo wants it, I would love to make that happen,” said Hearn.
