{"id":34111,"date":"2025-02-22T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/artur-beterbiev-v-dmitry-bivol-undisputed-light-heavyweight-championship-live\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:01:16","slug":"artur-beterbiev-v-dmitry-bivol-undisputed-light-heavyweight-championship-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/artur-beterbiev-v-dmitry-bivol-undisputed-light-heavyweight-championship-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Artur Beterbiev v Dmitry Bivol: undisputed light heavyweight championship \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Beterbiev defends all four belts in blockbuster rematch<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Parker, Shakur Stevenson fight on undercard<\/li>\n<li>Reach Bryan on Bluesky at <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/bryanagraham.bsky.social\">@BryanAGraham<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:bryan.graham@theguardian.com\">email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hello and welcome to Riyadh\u2019s Kingdom Arena for tonight\u2019s light-heavyweight blockbuster.<\/strong> The stage is set for one of the biggest rematches in recent boxing history as Artur Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) defends all four major light heavyweight titles against Dmitry Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs). Both men are here to sort out unfinished business after their thrilling October showdown, which saw Beterbiev <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/oct\/12\/artur-beterbiev-dmitry-bivol-fight-report-undisputed\">shade a majority decision<\/a> to unify the WBA, WBO, WBC and IBF belts at 175lb.<\/p>\n<p>That first encounter lived up to the sky-high expectations that preceded it. Beterbiev, known for his brutal knockout power, managed to narrowly get by on points, but the scorecards (114-114, 115-113, and 116-112) left plenty of room for debate with both fighters believing they had done enough to win. Four months later and with everything back on the line, the rematch offers both men a chance to settle the score for good.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/feb\/22\/artur-beterbiev-v-dmitry-bivol-undisputed-light-heavyweight-championship-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beterbiev defends all four belts in blockbuster rematch Joseph Parker, Shakur Stevenson fight on undercard Reach Bryan on Bluesky at @BryanAGraham or email Hello and welcome to Riyadh\u2019s Kingdom Arena for tonight\u2019s light-heavyweight blockbuster. The stage is set for one of the biggest rematches in recent boxing history as Artur Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) defends &#8230; <a title=\"Artur Beterbiev v Dmitry Bivol: undisputed light heavyweight championship \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/artur-beterbiev-v-dmitry-bivol-undisputed-light-heavyweight-championship-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Artur Beterbiev v Dmitry Bivol: undisputed light heavyweight championship \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}