Former world middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog I am sure that at the moment the owner of the WBC and IBF light heavyweight titles Arthur Beterbiev win WBA champion Dmitry Bivol.
“Bivol is still young, both in terms of age and boxing maturity, he will get stronger. Now Beterbiev is better in all aspects, both physically and mentally, than Dima Bivol. But if there are no pronounced misfires, missed blows in other fights, and they come to this fight at a later time, then it will already be interesting there.
This is the weight where no one canceled the lacquer punch, so it's hard to predict. But if not a lucky punch, then now 9 out of 10 that Beterbiev will figure it out. If you remove the varnish punch, then probably 10. In a year or two, the picture will change. We will return to this issue in a year or two and will analyze, see what state both are in. But already, perhaps, the scales will swing in the other direction. Now number one in this division is Artur Beterbiev," Pirog said in an interview with the Victor Yalymov Boxing Studio YouTube channel.
