Dmitry Bivol is 100% committed to Turki Alalshikh and does not want to know anything about David Benavidez, at least at the moment. The Arab wants a third fight between the Russian and Artur Beterbiev, while the WBC has given him an ultimatum to negotiate a fight with the ‘Mexican Monster‘ or be stripped of the belt
There is still no concrete response from Bivol, but from his promoter, Eddie Hearn, who is sure that they will go along with what the Arab sheikh orders them to do, thus avoiding a fight with Benavidez“We received an offer from Sampson Boxing for David Benavidez to fight Dmitry Bivol. The reality is this: Turki Alalshikh had given four fights to Dmitry Bivol,” were the words of Eddie Hearn to the media who questioned him
Many boxing experts point out that Bivol would clearly be avoiding Benavidez because facing Beterbiev is an ‘easier’ fight, as he already knows him and they would also forget about those two impressive fights they had
Eddie Hearn justifies Bivol in going for trilogy
In a chat with Seconds Out,Eddie began to give more details of the deal that Dmitry has with Turki and makes it very clear that this is the way to go
“Turki gave him, most importantly, the fight against Beterbiev for undisputed. After that, which we consider a bad decision, he gave Bivol the rematch four months later. So, we are doing what His Excellency tells us for the next fight,” were the blunt words of the English promoter
Eddie already seems to be getting an idea that the WBC is going to take a championship away from Bivol, but he gave it little importance and says that if they do, they do not care at all
“I guess it’s down to how we handle the Bivol-Beterbiev 1. I hope it’s the trilogy fight. If His Excellency says, ‘I want you to fight David Benavidez’, no problem. But we want to keep all the belts, but if we have to lose one to follow His Excellency’s plan against Dmitry Bivol, that’s no problem either,” Eddie commented
Time is running out and the WBC could interfere
The WBC gave Bivol’s team an ultimatum to negotiate a fight against David Benavidez, that date ends on April 8, but there is still no response.
The offer is already on the table for Dmitry and he is not responding and does not seem to be interested in finalizing the fight
In this case, the situation is simple for both sides. If Bivol chooses to face Beterbiev again in a third fight, he could be forced to come to terms with Benavidez or vacate his WBC title
They have him against the ropes, but it seems that he will get away with it and will choose to follow the orders of Turki Alalshikh.
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