They found a replacement for Artur Beterbiev.
Bivol will face Malik Zinad instead. Zinad is 30 year old with a 20-0 record (16 KOs), currently ranked 9th.
https://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_/id/40085057/dmitry-bivol-defend-title-vs-malik-zinad-riyadh
Quite unfortunate that Beterbiev suffered a meniscus injury and will be out for the fight. He will be out until September hence, a replacement is needed. Well, the replacement is also undefeated apparently so it's still a battle of undefeated boxers. I guess let's just see what will happen on this one, and let's expect that whoever win on this match will be the one that Beterbiev will be facing when he comes back in the ring.
when Inoue fell,i think everyone who put their money on him must have been standing up and about to say goodbye to their money.
but then he won by KO again. it isn't surprising but Inoue knocked down was more surprising, it kept watching over and over and it sure can be a big hole in his defense. it may just be his fall next if he fights someone on their heavier division.
this is the first time i saw Inoue showboating by the way. i guess that knock down crawled under his skin.
Not for me
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I also put some money on him even though the odds on Stake are only 1.20. I didn't expect him to be knocked down on the first round though and just for information, it's his first professional career knockdown but nevertheless, he got his revenge in the 2nd round, and continued to knock Nery down 2 more times until the 6th round.
I think even though it ended up as a decision, it's pretty obvious that Inoue will win on that one just because of how good he is per round. As for his showboating, it's not his first time doing it. He also did it with Stephen Fulton when they faced last time. I mean if you're fighting on your home country with more than 55,000 people watching, at least you need to entertain them a little bit and that's what he did.