The fight for the title of absolute light heavyweight champion (up to 79.4 kg) between the WBC / WBO / IBF world champion from Canada Artur Beterbiev (18-0, 18 KOs) and the WBA title holder Russian Dmitry Bivol (20-0, 11 KOs) ) can be organized – there would be a desire.
Thus, DAZN Executive Vice President Joe Markowski reacted to the statement of the head of Top Rank and Beterbiev promoter Bob Arum, according to which such a fight is almost impossible to organize due to a conflict of interests between promoters and broadcasters.
“Well, this is absurd, right? And I’ll tell you why, says Markowski. – I have great respect for Bob Arum, but in boxing there is a problem with some promoters and broadcasters refusing to interact with other promoters and broadcasters. If this continues, there will be no fighting.”
“Bob Arum’s job as a boxing promoter is to get the fights the public wants,” Joe said. “And we are more than willing to work with other promoters and broadcasters for big fights on PPV. We can agree on prices, we can share rights. We really want to do it.”
“Again, with all due respect to Bob Arum, the legend of the promotional shop, he has the wrong approach. If they want to discuss possible cooperation with us, we are in touch. They have our contacts, and we will be happy to talk about everything, ”the functionary assured.
Meanwhile, Dmitry Bivol spoke about Beterbiev, and Beterbiev spoke about the “sparring” with Bivol.
Source:
boxing scene
