Beterbiev: “How could Bivol sign a contract to fight me if I had another opponent?”

Unified World Light Heavyweight Champion Artur Beterbiev commented on the information that the WBA title holder Dmitry Bivol signed a contract to fight with him back in December.

Last weekend, Beterbiev confidently defended his belts by knocking out Callum Smith in the seventh round.

“He always says that. For the last five years, Bivol has been telling everyone that his next fight will be with me. Dmitry says that he has already signed the contract. How could he sign something when I had another opponent?

He's a real boxer, you know? I don't know anything about the date of the fight or anything else. And Bivol has already signed a contract. How did he do this? It’s always like this with boxers,” Beterbiev said in an interview with the YouTube channel Boxing Social.