Mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol spends a while speaking to Marcos Villegas of Combat Hub TV and touches on quite a lot of topics together with a failed rematch with Canelo, adapting his coaching as he will get older, and some different upcoming matchups. Take a look at some excerpts of what needed to say beneath.
Bivol on why no rematch with Canelo happened, and supervisor Vadim Kornilov supposedly being offered an underwhelming supply for the rematch
“I’m unsure that we obtained supply as a result of my group didn’t speak to me about it. Possibly (Canelo’s group) had been linked with Vadim about the identical supply (as the primary combat). But when they’re linked with him, after all I agree with him.”
On how he believes Anthony Yarde carried out in opposition to Artur Beterbiev
“He’s actually fascinating opponent. I see he’s progressing…he’s getting higher and higher, how I see Yarde. He was higher than he was in opposition to Kovalev.
“He was good till he obtained punched.”
On the sensation that Beterbiev is perhaps declining primarily based on the Yarde combat
“It’s arduous to say. You need to ask me, perhaps, ‘he’s getting worse?’…you realize, for me, I attempt to give extra profit (of the doubt) for Yarde, that’s he’s getting higher…I attempt to see like this, it makes me extra centered.
“If I say ‘oh, Yarde is just not good fighter’, Artur is getting worse, he’s older now,’ it’s not good for me. It’s not good for my focus.”
On if he has an age he expects to retire by
“40 years outdated, no boxing. 100%. However to be trustworthy I don’t have quite a lot of age in my head. I’ve some emotions, I simply have some emotions inside me. I desire a belt. Belts, belts. I don’t know once I can get this belt…”
On if a transfer as much as cruiserweight is one in every of his objectives
“Right this moment I see solely transfer down for belt, (or) solely combat in my weight class. Now, at the moment, I see this, however we don’t know what’s going to occur tomorrow…
“This isn’t an enormous distinction between 175 and 168. This massive distinction is between 175 and 200.”
