Eddie Hearn: BIVOL will provide a “much lighter” victory in the trilogy, calls for Canelo Challenge

Promotor Eddie Hearn says his fighter, Dmitry Bivol, will defeat the former indisputable champion in the heavyweight category Arthur Beterbiev “Much easier” If they fight again.

Hearn’s Canelo Push

Hearn claims that the buffalo (24-1, 12 ko) “will become better and better.” He is now pushing himself to Canela Alvarez to move until 175 to cause a buffalo for his titles. That was one of the things Hearn told him to lead to the fight. He felt that if a buffalo caught the undisputed championship from Beterbiev, motivating Canela would move up to face him for belts.

Hearn will need to reduce his expectations about the fights that the buffalo can get now that he is a four -belt champion. These are the right options of the buffalo:

1. Arthur Beterbiev – trilogy
2. David Benavidez: WBC Mandatory
3. Callum Smith

Mercenary factor

The only way to happen is if Turks Alalshikh throw a crazy amount of money on Canelo, as he does with the struggle of Terrence Crawford in September. If the Turks are willing to pay, he could lure Canela even Cruiserweight to cause IBF champion Jai Predaia. Alvarez is a mercenary and will fight anyone if the price is correct.

Plus, they will not give a buffalo time of the day. He had already lost him three years ago by a unanimous decision of 12 rounds on May 7, 2022, and the competition was enough to unilaterally make Canelo decide not to try to take revenge on the loss. So, unless the Turks offer 5’8 ″ Canelo a huge amount of money, he will no longer fight buffalo because he is an relentless fight for him. As we saw last time, he is too small to win 6’1 ″ buffalo.

Last Saturday night, Bivol deroonated the previously undefeated Beterbiev (21-1, 20 Kos), winning the decision on most twelve rounds at the site of held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The buffalo was running around the ring all night, throwing blows and sticking. Beterbiev seems to have won six rounds.

Many fans saw the fight as a draw, not as a victory, but the judges gave it a buffalo by 115-113, 116-112 and 114-114. I had a draw, but it was expected that the buffalo would win. Some believe that the buffalo won because there are more opportunities to make money with him as a champion than if Beterbiev holds four belts. Canelo and David Benavidez would be more open to fight the Finese Fighter Bivol of Beterbiev.

The result of the US Bull Judge was a real surprise because he was so excluded that he left the impression that Beterbiev never had a chance to win.

“There is so much fighting outside. Canelo Alvarez, does he really want to roll the cubes to try to become a worldwide champion with a slight heavyweight category?” Said Promotor Eddie Hearn, who pushed to Canela Alvarez to move up to 175 to challenge his Fighter, Dmitry Bivol for his undisputed heavyweight championship.

“Dmitry is ready for all the initiaters, and by the way it will be better and better. If he fights Beterbiev again, this time it will be much easier to beat him,” Hearn said.

‘If @bivol_d Again struggling with Artur Beterbiev, this time it will be much easier to win ‘👀 @EddieHearn pic.twitter.com/jlad5x5har

– Dazn Boxing (@daznboxing) 26. February 2025