{"id":238753,"date":"2025-07-05T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238753\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:27:09","slug":"turki-alalshikh-allows-dmitry-bivol-artur-beterbiev-to-go-forward-with-3rd-fight-in-russia-instead-of-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238753\/","title":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh allows Dmitry Bivol, Artur Beterbiev to go forward with 3rd fight in Russia instead of Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dmitry Bivol-Artur Beterbiev trilogy fight for the Ring Magazine light heavyweight championship was on the Riyadh Season schedule for November, <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">The Ring <\/a>has learned.<br \/>However, fellow Russians <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/dmitry-bivol-392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">Bivol <\/a>and Beterbiev both asked Turki Alalshikh to hold the fight in Russia with different organizers, and he gave his blessing.<\/p>\n<p>And now, it\u2019s unclear when the third fight will happen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/artur-beterbiev-182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">Beterbiev <\/a>(21-1, 20 KOs) won the first contest in October via majority decision to become the undisputed champion at 175 pounds. The decision was controversial and Alalshikh moved quickly to deliver the rematch.<\/p>\n<p>Bivol (24-1, 12 KOs) won that return bout in February to exact revenge via majority decision in a far more entertaining fight than the first meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Alalshikh said afterward he would finalize the trilogy later this year; both fights took place in Riyadh. And now those plans have changed as Bivol and Beterbiev seek to hold the fight in Russia after an organizer promised them lucrative paydays, sources said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bivol was stripped of his WBC title earlier this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/david-benavidez-609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">David Benavidez <\/a>was elevated to WBC champion, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/david-benavidez-set-to-make-first-wbc-light-heavyweight-world-title-defence-vs-anthony-yarde-in-november\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">he\u2019ll defend that title vs. Anthony Yarde in November in Riyadh<\/a>, the same card that had planned to hold Bivol-Beterbiev 3.<br \/>Bivol, 34, is <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/ring-ranking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"text-ringtv-blue underline\">The Ring\u2019s No. 4 pound-for-pound boxer.<\/a> Beterbiev, 40, is No. 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dmitry Bivol-Artur Beterbiev trilogy fight for the Ring Magazine light heavyweight championship was on the Riyadh Season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-238753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}