Bivol then defended his title against Samuel Clarkson on 14 April 2017. Following another knockdown and with Berridge bleeding profusely, the ringside doctor stopped the fight. At the start of round 4, Bivol opened a cut over Berridge's right eye. Bivol easily overcame Berridge, pummeling him over 4 rounds before a technical knockout stoppage. Bivol's first defense came against Robert Berridge on 23 February 2017. At the time, the WBA had three different world titles, with Bivol holding the lesser version of them. Bivol dominated Valera, dropping him twice with combinations. WBA interim light heavyweight champion īivol won the interim WBA light heavyweight title on, beating previously undefeated Felix Valera by unanimous decision (119-107, 119–107, 116–111). Petersburg but trains in Southern California. Bivol sparred with Egor Mekhontsev, Jean Pascal, and Vyacheslav Shabranskyy early in his career.
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Professional career Early career īivol made his professional debut in November 2014. Bivol won the Russian national amateur boxing championships in 20, as a light heavyweight. Bivol was a decorated amateur, winning 2 world championships at the junior (U-17) level, as well as a bronze medal at the 2008 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in the middleweight division. He explains how his confidence grew as he started to win over much older guys in his amateur bouts.
Bivol was a naturally bigger kid and he weighed a lot compared to an average-size boy of his age. Amateur career ĭmitry Bivol took up boxing at the age of 6 in Tokmak, Kyrgyzstan. Dmitry was born and raised in Kyrgyzstan until the age of 11, when he moved to Saint Petersburg, Russia. Dmitry's parents moved to Soviet Kyrgyzstan after graduating and marrying. Early life ĭmitry Bivol's father was born in Soviet Moldova while his mother is an ethnic Korean born in Soviet Kazakhstan. He is also ranked as the best light heavyweight by The Ring, ESPN, and BoxRec, and second by TBRB. As of November 2022, Bivol is ranked as the world's third best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec, fifth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB), sixth by The Ring, and seventh by the Boxing Writers Association of America and ESPN. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2013 World Combat Games in the 81 kg weight category. Buenos Aires’ Alaniz (14-0, 6KOs) was 110 ¾ pounds in her first career fight outside of Argentina.Dmitry Yuryevich Bivol ( Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Бивол born 18 December 1990) is a Russian professional boxer who has held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light heavyweight title since 2017. Houston’s Esparza (13-1, 1KOs)-a 2012 Olympic Bronze medalist-was 111 ½ pounds in her fourth overall title defense and second as a unified champ. The evening’s lone title fight left on the show will see lineal/WBC/WBA flyweight champion Marlen Esparza and WBO titlist Gabriela Alaniz move within one belt of undisputed championship status. Rhodes is 2-2 in his last four starts but has not defeated an opponent with a winning record since 2014. The 20-year-old blue-chip prospect knocked out Jose Valentin Leon in the second-round of their April 22 meeting on the Gervonta Davis-Ryan Garcia undercard at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Schofield (14-0, 11KOs)-who is based in nearby Austin-will fight for the third time in 2023. Lithuania’s Stanionis (14-0, 9KOs 1ND) was due to make his first title defense but was left without a fight after Ortiz (19-0, 19KOs)-a 25-year-old contender from Grand Prairie, Texas-was hospitalized after he passed out late Wednesday evening. Schofield-Rhodes was bumped up after the Eimantas Stanionis-Vergil Ortiz WBA ‘Regular’ welterweight title fight was dropped from the show.
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