Doltry Bivol $ 8 million rejection: Fear of David Benavidez surpassed a lucrative defense of the title?

Dimmitry Bivol was an offer of $ 8 million to defend their unquestionable light championship against their mandatory WBC David Benavidez. The President of the WBC, Mauricio Sulaiman, revealed that Bivol (24-1, 2 kos) rejected the agreement to fight Benavidez.

Bivol’s great offer

Salvador Rodriguez, from Espn Knockout, reports that Sulaiman said that the Bivol purse for reselling with Artur Beeterbiev was $ 2.7 million, which, if true, makes it difficult to understand why Dmitry would reject $ 8 million for a fight against Benavidez, unless he was worried about losing with him. It had been rumored that Bivol had received $ 10 million for both fights with Beeterbiev.

There would be a greater interest in a struggle between Bivol and the “Mexican monster” Benavidez (30-0, 24 kos) than a third with Artur Beeterbiev. The fans have already seen Bivol and Beeterbiev Battle twice. It is a struggle that has lost much of its brightness because the two attacks were not the wars. They were technical chess matches.

This kind of fights is OK to see once, but not three times in a row without a pause between one more entertaining between a fights. Beeterbiev is a timing artist, but the feet and the speed of the hand are too slow to keep up with a bivol. At the age of 40, Arthur’s resistance is not what he was before. David Benavidez would have made it exciting with the way would hunt bivol and to force you to fight or give up.

Bivol presented his heavy weight title from WBC so that he could turn Benavidez and fight a trilogy match against Arthur. It is okay for Dmitry to do it if your wallet is larger than the $ 8 million you would have obtained.

Was the style shock avoided?

From Bivol’s perspective, I would rather fight Beterbiev’s aging than to face the Puncher Benavidez much younger, faster and more large. Their possibilities of defeating Artur are larger than if Benavidez fought.

Bivol rejected an offer of $ 8 million from Benavidez: WBC https://t.co/96cajoc81i

– Salvador Rodriguez (@chavaespn) April 8, 2025