Dmitry Bivol finds himself in a spot that many champions in boxing are at the moment and he holds the power in it.
Who knows who Bivol will fight next of course.
One of the old defunct boxing belt companies are ‘ordering’ him (that does not exist anymore they are asking him) to fight a certain fight.
Against Callum Smith of the UK.
No one wants that fight though and he and everyone in boxing wants either the David Benavidez fight or the Artur Beterbiev trilogy.
Or even he could move up to fight someone like Jai Opetaia of Australia at cruiserweight.
Like many champions recently, he can easily vacate one of his old 175 pounds light-heavyweight titles to fix this.
Just like fighters like Usyk, Bam Rodriguez and many others have been doing recently.
This will free him up to fight the big fights he wants to go for instead right away.
A simple fix that many of the big champions in boxing and pound for pound rated fighters like him are doing at the moment.
Callum Smith is not a fight of interest to anyone when comparing it to much bigger fights like the above.
That will make Bivol much more money and give boxing spectators around the world all better fights they want.
The choice is Dmitry Bivol’s now.
An easy one to make.
Dmitry Bivol has shown intent before on doing something like the above with the old boxing belt companies.
He knows what to do.
The right thing to do is at least try to pursue the all Russian clash and trilogy with Artur Beterbiev at light-heavyweight.
As they are 1-1 a piece so far.
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