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今天的早些时候，IBF新闻官发布了声明；“现在巴雷拉拒绝了与贝特比耶夫的战斗，如果还没有人和贝特比耶夫打，我们决定将贝特比耶夫设定为沃德VS科瓦列夫复赛胜者的强制性挑战者”。
If everything goes as expected, Beterbiev will become the mandatory challenger to Ward, who is scheduled to face Sergey Kovalev in a rematch. Ward captured the WBA, WBO, IBF titles with a twelve round unanimous decision over Sergey Kovalev in November. There is an immediate rematch clause, and the second fight is being targeted for June 17 in Las Vegas. "The IBF is aware that Barrera refused to fight with Beterbiev. Right now we are going down the ratings and if no one agrees to fight with Beterbiev, then he will become the mandatory challenger to fight with the winner of the Ward-Kovalev rematch," an IBF press officer stated to Basil Konov. Up until last week, Beterbiev was going to fight Sullivan Barrera in a final IBF eliminator on April 21 in Miami. Barrera withdrew from the contest, expressing his displeasure with the financial terms of the agreement. Those terms were established because Beterbiev's promoter, Yvon Michel of GYM, won the IBF's purse bid. Main Events CEO Kathy Duva, who promotes both Barrera and Kovalev, stated: "Barrera was unhappy with the fact that for a long time a contract to fight with Beterbiev was not signed and he didn't want to spend more money on training without a contract. As for the rematch between Kovalev and Ward, I can say that we are working on this fight." |
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2023-10-18 07:16:00
