{"id":28358,"date":"2025-04-08T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dmitry-bivol-vacates-wbc-world-title-to-seek-artur-beterbiev-bout\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:19:31","slug":"dmitry-bivol-vacates-wbc-world-title-to-seek-artur-beterbiev-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dmitry-bivol-vacates-wbc-world-title-to-seek-artur-beterbiev-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Dmitry Bivol vacates WBC world title to seek Artur Beterbiev bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dmitry Bivol has relinquished his WBC light-heavyweight world title after just six weeks as undisputed champion in order to pursue a third fight against Artur Beterbiev.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cwyd1wz320vo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">defeated Beterbiev on 23 February<\/a> to gain revenge over his fiercest rival and claim the WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF world titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman confirmed Bivol had vacated the title because the 34-year-old is seeking another fight against his fellow Russian Beterbiev. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first two fights between Bivol and 40-year-old Beterbiev had been for the undisputed title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in the wake of Bivol&#8217;s victory, the WBC had ordered him to fight its top contender David Benavidez next and a purse bid was scheduled for Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American fighter Benavidez, who is unbeaten in 30 bouts, has been upgraded to world champion status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool&#8217;s Callum Smith will be among those vying to fight Benavidez after he beat top contender Joshua Buatsi in February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cj3xn28880yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitry Bivol has relinquished his WBC light-heavyweight world title after just six weeks as undisputed champion in order to pursue a third fight against Artur Beterbiev. The Russian defeated Beterbiev on 23 February to gain revenge over his fiercest rival and claim the WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF world titles. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28360,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28358\/revisions\/28360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}