The purse bid for the IBF light heavyweight mandatory title defense between champion Artur Beterbiev and challenger Meng Fanlong took place today, December 30, 2019, at 12:00 PM at the IBF headquarters in Springfield, NJ. Rejoy Group, China’s biggest boxing promoter, won with a bid of $1,900,000 for the bout against Top Rank’s bid of $1,315,000.
The boxing event must be scheduled to take place not less than 28 days and not more than 90 days from the date of the bid award, unless a different date is agreed to in writing by the boxers and/or approved by the Championships Committee.
Looks to me like Beterbiev will move to 16-O with 16 KO’s.
I’m shocked Canelo didn’t want to go after the IBF Light Heavyweight belt against Beterbiev..oh wait that would be a real fight for Canelo not a lay down like Jacobs and Kovalev….
Light heavyweight isn’t Canelos best fighting weight, let’s be honest! Canelo Álvarez should fight the highest reward and most competitive fight and that sir is VS Andre Ward!!! Make it happen
Excuses.. An old Kovalev was good but not a Young Beterbiev ?! Light Heavy was a perfect weight for him but Beterbiev would Knock the tainted meat out of him !! It’s a win win fight for Canelo LOL !!!!
Omg another Canelo hater. I don’t care for the guy but my goodness the hate from you thirsty animals is sickening. Like you wouldn’t do exactly what he does if you had the choice. The difference is you don’t have the choice, so you choose to hate. I’m sure you’ve done a lot more with your life David.
Lol
Gotta protect the golden goose. Beterbiev is way too tough and way too much of a challenge,
Oh David: even the most faithful Canelo fans know and understand that Canelo is not a LHW. He only went after Kov cuz everything made sense (money, age, time, etc…) we all know that a Beterbiev fight is out of the question for him. And he does too.. he made history. Now hes going back to his weight. Cant fault him for that. It took guts to begin with regardless of what anyone says
Really that fight was a set up. Every real boxing fan would call stoop on that fight. Canelo does not want any of the real Russian killers Light heavyweight division.
Not bad at all to get $1425000 by facing a softie, after his last grueling fight with Gvozdyk. I expect an easy win for Beterbiev and at least one unification fight before the end of 2020.
Where is Canelo? LOL I thought Canelo fights the best.