IBF/WBC/WBO light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and challenger Callum Smith both successfully weighed in today for their main event three-belt contest for this Saturday, January 13th, at the Centre Videotron in Quebec City.
Trainer Buddy McGirt says Callum Smith must make Artur Beterbiev “respect” him on Saturday night to prevent him from walking through him.
Fans believe promoter Eddie Hearn is playing mind games, trying to throw unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev off his game this week so that his fighter Callum Smith can defeat him, snatch his three titles from him, and face WBA champion Dmitry Bivol for the undisputed championship in Saudi Arabia.
WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol has inked to fight IBF, WBC & WBO champion Artur Beterbiev for the undisputed championship in Saudi Arabia in April or May.
Callum Smith, the WBC mandatory, has brushed off the atypical VADA test results from unified light heavyweight Artur Beterbiev from his tests last December ahead of their fight this Saturday, January 13th, on ESPN at the Centre Videotron in Quebec City.
Artur Beterbiev and Callum Smith came face-to-face today, this just a couple of days before they fight in Quebec, Canada. Engaging in what can only be described as an intense face-to-face, Beterbiev, the reigning and defending WBC/WBO/IBF 175 pound champ, and Smith, the challenger and former WBA super middleweight champ, barely blinked as they stared each other down.
There isn’t long to go now before fearsome three-belt light heavyweight ruler Artur Beterbiev makes his ring return, this after a year on the shelf, the 38-year-old to face former 168-pound champ Callum Smith in Canada on Saturday night.
Eddie Hearn sees this Saturday’s fight contest ending badly for unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev with him getting knocked out by challenger Callum Smith, leaving him “face down” on the canvas in their headliner on ESPN at the Centre Videotron in Quebec City, Canada.
Callum Smith must take IBF, WBA & WBO light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev into the trenches to defeat him on Saturday night on January 13th, says boxing expert Gareth A.
Promoter Eddie Hearn is convinced that Callum Smith will defeat Artur Beterbiev to rip his IBF, WBC & WBO light heavyweight titles away from him this Saturday, January 13th, at the Centre Videotron in Quebec City, Canada.