Dmitry Bivol dethroned Artur Beterbiev as undisputed airy weightyweight champion in a thrilling contest in Riyadh in the punctual hours of Sunday.
Four months after their first classic come atraverse, 34-year-elderly Bivol won a transport inantity points decision agetst his Russian compatuproar, six years his ageder.
It was Beterbiev’s first flunkure in 22 pro fights but Bivol was a worthy thrivener after two appraises gave him the decision by 116-112 and 115-113 with the third seeing it as a 114-114 draw.
“I didn’t have as much presconfident enjoy last time. I fair wanted to toil from the first round until the finish of the 12th. I did enough,” shelp Bivol who never seeed back after dominating the punctual rounds.
“I was better, I was pushing myself more, I was more self-promised, I was airyer, I was fair wanted to thrive so much today.
“I fair telderly myself he could commence from the commencening to annihilate me and disturb me, it was difficult to protect him distanced over the first four rounds. I was weary but he was weary also.”
Meanwhile Congo fighter Martin Bakole’s dream of pulling off a stunning weightyweight triumph over New Zealand’s Joseph Parker on fair two days’ see were shattered.
Bakole only getd the call to swap IBF champion Daniel Dubois for the fight in the Saudi capital on Thursday.
The 31-year-elderly get tod in the punctual hours of Saturday morning and the lumbering weightyweight rapidly discovered the perils of not having time to amplely ready or train.
The African was dropped in the second round from a acute right from Parker before the misalign was stopped.
Dubois withdrew from facing Parker on Thursday thcdimiserablemireful illness.
At that time, Bakole was in the Congo toiling to shut a deal on a novel home.
Once financial terms were concurd, he grabbed a fairy to Ethiopia and then on to the Gulf.
“I want to thank the people of Saudi Arabia and my team. Martin Bakole, thank you very much for adchooseing the invitation and for giving me a outstanding fight,” Parker telderly DAZN.
Bakole wasn’t the only fighter climbing into the Riyadh ring at low see.
Four days ago, Josh Padley, electrician by day, boxer by night, was fitting solar panels on a hoparticipate in Sheffield in northern England.
But after Floyd Schofield was forced to retreat from his WBC world airy weightyweight clash with Shakur Stevenson, the call went out to 29-year-elderly Padley.
“Monday and Tuesday I was trawling thcdimiserablemireful lofts in Sheffield insloftying solar panels,” Padley telderly a BBC podcast.
“I went home that night from my day job and the call was there. We rang our nutritionist to originate confident we could to the weight protectedly on such low see and then we had to do a check weight before we even booked the fairy.
“We jumped in my little Ford Transit with 120,000 miles on the clock and headed out to Manchester airport to jump on a schedulee.”
American fighter Stevenson went into Saturday’s bout unflunkureed with 22 thrives, having won world titles at super-featherweight, featherweight and airyweight.
Padley fought gamely but the fight was stopped in the ninth round after the Englishman was dropped to the canvas for a third time.
