Artur Beterbiev insists he has little curiosity in a future battle with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
Beterbiev on Saturday, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, makes the primary defence of his undisputed light-heavyweight title in his rematch together with his fellow Russian Dmitry Bivol.
It was in October when the 40 12 months outdated recorded his largest victory of their first battle, by way of majority resolution. Because the affirmation of their rematch, Alvarez has agreed to battle William Scull at tremendous middleweight and, within the occasion of victory, Terence Crawford, additionally at 168lbs, later in 2025.
The Mexican has spoken of doubtless returning to mild heavyweight – he defeated Sergey Kovalev there, earlier than later shedding to Bivol – ought to he defeat each Scull and Crawford, however Beterbiev instructed Boxing Information: “I’m not likely focused on him, as a result of when he was the champion in my class, sure, I wished to battle him, however now he doesn’t have something in my class.”
David Benavidez is taken into account a possible various, and requested about him, the champion stated: “In fact – if he needs the battle. If he’s obligatory, we’ll have to battle.”
He was additionally requested how totally different Saturday’s battle feels to their first, which was delayed when he suffered an harm whereas coaching, and he responded: “It’s a bit bit higher [to be training injury-free], yeah.
“Now we all know one another a bit bit higher, than after we fought the primary time. It’s serving to.
“I wished to seize all of the belts [the first time]. Now I wish to defend them. It’s motivating.
“We will say something, every little thing, however throughout the battle, it’s all the time totally different.”
