Benavidez gets the heavy weight title from WBC as Bivol is inclined to Chase Beterbiev Trilogy

The President of the WBC, Mauricio Sulaiman, has confirmed today that the provisional champion of 175 pounds David Benavidez is the new light -heavy belt holder after Dmitry Bivol resigned from his title with the WBC organization.

An offer of WBC -ordered purses for Bivol’s compulsory struggle with Benavidez was scheduled, but Dmitry chose to resign from the belt so that he could participate in a trilogy match with Artur Beeterbiev.

The new king

Benavidez would have preferred to win the 175 LB WBC title in the traditional Bivol Way for this, but what he can do if he did not want to fight him. He was not going to hide, letting Bivol put him ice as he fights Beterbiev again. There would be no guarantee that the winner of the Bivol-Beeterbiev 3 struggle would have fought. They could have chosen to go to the fourth struggle or evict -placing Benavidez wherever he is now.

According to reports, Bivol (24-1, 12 kos) would have preferred to keep the WBC belt, but the WBC forced his hand to order him to face the “Mexican monster” Benavidez. It would not have been difficult for Bivol to keep in his trilogy game with Arthur, 40, but the Saudis wanted the following.

Why Bivol was disabled

In addition, Dmitry who defended the WBC belt against Benavidez would not have been a safe victory. If it were a cake, Bivol would have given the green light to face Benavidez, then fight against the trilogy with Beterbiev (21-1, 20 kos) later.

There was too much chance that Bivol would lose and be struck by Benavidez, which would drain the little interest that the boxing audience still has when seeing the trilogy.

Given the rumor purchase of 55k PPV in Dazn from North -American fans in the second struggle of Beterbiev vs. Bivol 2 On February 22, it would have been a nonsense for Dmitry to defend his WBC title against David Benavidez. He would have lost the struggle, and then a trilogy with Bertebiev would not be worth the dirt.

They could put it on PPV and would be fortunate enough to bring to 20k Buys Statleside. The fans are tired of this boring struggle anyway, but they would really be sick if Benavidez sent Bivol to the next galaxy.

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We will see who is facing now that Benavidez is the new WBC lightweight heavy weight champion. These are some of the options:

– Callum Smith
– David Morrell: *Rematch
– Anthony Yarde
– Wily Hutchinson
– Lyndon Arthur
– Edgar Berlanga: *If you decide to move forward

I just received a cold and impersonal notification from Dmitry Bivol’s lawyer, Patrick English, with such ridiculous arguments that I prefer not to discuss informing the WBC that Dmitry Bivol has decided to give up his WBC heavy weight championship. We wish Bivol …

– Mauricio Sulaiman (@wbcmoro) April 7, 2025