Former world champion and current boxing columnist streaming DAZN Briton Tony Bellew believes that if the owner of the WBA Super belt (temporarily?) playing for Kyrgyzstan, Russian Dmitry Bivol (20-0, 11 KOs) beats his obligatory challenger Mexican Gilberto Ramirez (44-0, 30 KOs), then he will refuse to fight- rematch with superstar Saul Canelo Alvarez (58-2-2, 39 KOs) from Mexico.
The fight Bivol vs Ramirez will take place tonight in Abu Dhabi (UAE).
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In May of this year, super middleweight Canelo unsuccessfully tried to take the belt from Bivol – he lost by unanimous decision. The contract contained a clause on revenge, which Alvarez is going to use.
Bellew believes that Bivol has other priorities now: “I think that in the event of a victory over Ramirez, he will want an immediate fight with (owner of all other division belts) Artur Beterbiev. He already has a win over Canelo. But the victory over Beterbiev and the title of the absolute world champion, no doubt, whets the appetite.”
Bellew is looking forward to a tough fight: “Classic boxer against ever-oncoming power. And all the titles are on the line. Even if Ramirez defeats Bivol, then the fight with Beterbiev will also be a priority for him, because in his case the fight with Canelo is completely irrelevant. So there’s a lot more at stake in the Bivol vs. Ramirez fight than just a championship title. Now just imagine Bivol beating Canelo and Beterbiev in 18 months! Why not an argument to consider him the strongest boxer in the world?
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