Beijing time on July 1st, according to the American boxing media confirmed that the much-anticipated light heavyweight four major organizations unification battle Beterbiev VS Bivol game negotiations have reached a deadlock, due to Beterbiev Husband's promoter Arum is unwilling to let his boxers compete on Bivol's DAZN broadcast platform, and insists on competing on the ESPN channel he cooperates with. Therefore, it is still unclear whether this unification fight can take place.
As we all know, Beterbiev recently KOed Smith in 2 rounds in the unification battle of the three major organizations, becoming the unified champion of the three major organizations of IBF/WBC/WBO, and his professional record has improved to 18 wins in 18 games, and 18 KO opponents. Wall is not to be outdone. He defeated Alvarez in 12 rounds of points in May this year. He became popular in the first battle and has now ranked among the top ten of P4P. His popularity is unprecedented.
Therefore, the duel between these two undefeated boxing champions will undoubtedly arouse the appetite of boxing fans. There is a lot of suspense about whether Biwall's technology is superior, or whether Beterbiev's strength will prevail. However, when the outside world was eagerly anticipating this fight, Arum was the first to express his unwillingness to compete on DAZN, which put the unification fight into a dilemma.
In order to dispel Arum’s concerns, DAZN chief Joe Markowski said: “We respect Arum’s achievements in boxing. He is a legend, but he values too much the gains and losses of platform broadcasts. , This goes against the original intention of boxing development. What promoters should do is to promote the competition that the audience wants to see, rather than being pretentious. If Arum is sincere in promoting the competition, we will sit down and talk with him with an open mind." As for whether Arum will agree to DAZN's conditions to ensure the first 175-pound unification fight in history, let us wait and see.
