After defeating Beeterbiev, what is below for Dmitry Bivol, Trilogy Fight or Benavidez?

On Saturday night at The Kingdom Arena de Riad, Saudi Arabia, an exciting resuscitation of the indisputable heavyweight crown of light took place when Dmitry Bivol defeated Artur Beterbiev (21-1, 20 kos) by majority decision.

This struggle had all the elements you expect to see in an elite championship game. This struggle had strategic movements, actions in favor of the FAN and various changes at the moment. Four months ago, Artur Beterbiev gave Dmitry Bivol his first loss of race and on the night of February 22 Bivol returned the favor.

In the inaugural round of the Battle for indisputable, most of the actions took place in the center of the ring while Beterbiev and Bivol tried to establish the JAB. Beeterbiev went out in the second round with the intention of being more aggressive, but when he pressed forward, Bivol connected with a right hand meter on several occasions.

In the third round each time Beterbiev landed a great heavy shot, Bivol would respond by throwing a combination of three or four punches. Beeterbiev was dominant in the 4th round as he advanced and landed heavy shots of his right hand throughout the round.

In the fifth round, Beterbiev continued to connect with his right hand to the head and body of Bivol. In the middle of the fifth, Bivol trapped Beterbiev with a clean shot from his right hand, but Bertebiev finished the round landing a couple of solid combinations.

Bivol used his JAB to configure his combinations during the first 90 seconds of the sixth round, but Beeterbiev finished the round in a strong note while leaning Bivol against the ropes and landed hard and left rights. Bivol controlled the rhythm of the rounds from 7 to 9 with the movement, his dagger and his combination.

Similar to the first struggle, Artur Beeterbiev found himself in a position where he had to meet in the section. Beeterbiev did a good job to end the fight, but this time it was short when the judges marked the combat (114-114, 116-112 and 115-113) in favor of Dmitry Bivol.

With the victory, Dmitry Bivol (24-1, 12 kos) took revenge on his only loss of career and achieved his dream of becoming undisputed world champion. Now, the question that everyone likes to ask the conclusion of a big struggle is what is below for the new Indisputable Heavy World Champion Dmitry Bivol?

An obvious option for Dmitry Bivol would be a trilogy struggle with Artur Beeterbiev. With his great victory on Saturday night, Bivol even the scoreboard, and now a rubber game can determine the winner general of the Bivol-Beeterbiev series.

Another intriguing option would be an indisputable title of heavy weight between Dmitry Bivol and David Benavidez. Unbeaten David Benavidez was the contestant number 1 to 168 for two years, but the Canelo Alvarez champion managed to avoid it.

Knowing that he will never receive the opportunity to fight for the title, David Benavidez moved to 175. After publishing unanimous decision -wing victories on Oleksandr GVozdyk and David Morrell, Benavidez has been shown as a legitimate contender of heavyweight title .

In recent years, the 34 -year -old Dmitry Bivol has been very active and, at the post -fight press conference, Bivol made known time to rest to rest and cure some annoying injuries. From now on, Bivol is the king of light weights and has many options, but we will have to sit and wait to see what his next play will be.