WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol will still be fighting on the June 1 megacard taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Although his undisputed showdown against WBC/IBF/WBO champ Artur Beterbiev was postponed to to an injury suffered by Beterbiev, Bivol will now reportedly face unbeaten IBF #2 rated Malik Zinad (22-0, 16 KOs).
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Zanid is pretty good, should be a good fight and a good card…
I’ve heard of Zinad- He fights out of Malta and is/was Donny Lalonde’s protoge’. Lalonde moved to Malta a few years back to promote fighters there and was heavily hyping up Zinad.
Pity Benadives is fighting the other fellow at 175,, would of been a good matchup replacement
Benavidez,,, apologies.
ok well should be a gimme for Bivol and yea too bad they cant switch opponents and get the Benavidez vs Bivol match
They should have picked the light-heavyweight benavidez! He’s itching for canelo so, bivol can entertain him while benavidez awaits for the saudi arabian kings to make canelo the 150 million for the fight he wants!
Yes, Benavidez-Bivol still would have been a megafight with renewed interest, but at least Bivol is fighting someone and the undercard is saved. I don’t even know who’s on the undercard but I’m sure there are some pretty significant fights. It always bums me out when a fighter gets hurt and the whole card is cancelled. There’s always some young dude who loses his moment to shine when that happens.
Pretty sure Wilder vs Zhang is on the undercard along with another good fight I can’t remember.
Bivol by points
A very pleasant surprise! A bit of a longshot to be sure, but Zinad is just coming off a big upset win and should be in excellent fighting shape. I wouldn’t completely count him out against Bivol.
Jake paul is looking in phenomenal shape. He will be coming in at a solid 240 pounds. He is going to put beatdown number 7 on tyson. 1st or 2nd round ko.
Bivol is going to knock this bum out. KO in 1:38 seconds of round number 5. Wilder vs Zhang is now the main event.