Dmitri Bivol reportedly rejected an offer of $ 8 million to defend his undisputed light heavyweight championships against his WBC shelter David Banavidez. WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman revealed that Biblical (24-1, 2 COs) rejected the agreement to fight benavidez.
BIVOL’s great offer
Salvador Rodriguez of ESPN Knockout reports that Sulaiman said Biblical wallet for his re -broadcast with Artur was betterbiev for $ 2.7 million, which, if true, makes it difficult to understand why Dmitri would reject $ 8 million for a fight against Benavidez, unless he was worried. It was alleged that Bivol received $ 10 million for the two fights with better Biev.
There would be more interest in a battle between Bivolol and ‘The Mexican Monster’ benavidez (30-0, 24 COs) than a third one with Artur Betterbiev. Fans have already seen Biblical and Betterbiev battle twice. It is a fight that lost many of its brilliance due to the two attacks that were not the wars. It was technical chess matches.
Those kinds of fights are in order to look once, but not three consecutive times without a break between a more entertaining one between a Brawler. Betterbiev is a knockout artist, but his feet and hand speed are too slow for him to catch up biblically. At 40, Artur’s endurance is not what it once was. David benavidez would have made it exciting He will hunt biss down and force him to fight or surrender.
Biblical WBC surrendered light heavyweight title so he could swing benavidez and fight a trilogy match against Artur. It is good for Dmitri to do so if his wallet is bigger than the $ 8 million he would have received.
Style collision avoided?
From the perspective of Biblical, he would rather fight against the outdated Betterbiev than to face the much younger, faster, high volume puncher benavidez. His chances of defeating Artur are greater than if he fought against Benavidez.
Biblical offered an offer of 8 million dollars of benavidez: WBC https://t.co/96cajoc81i
– Salvador Rodriguez (@chavaespn) April 8, 2025
Last updated on 04/08/2025
