“There were no worthy rivals for Bivol on June 17. The serious stage of negotiations with Canelo will be after his fight with Ryder” – Manager

WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol was supposed to fight on June 17 in the United States, but the boxer did not find a worthy opponent, the Russian side will enter into serious negotiations with the Mexican Saul Alvarez after his fight with the Briton John Ryder. About this “” said Bivol manager Vadim Kornilov.

Bivol has 21 wins in the professional ring (11 by knockout). In November last year, the Russian beat Mexican Gilberto Ramirez, and before that in May, Saul Alvarez. Canelo has spoken several times about wanting a rematch with Bivol, but it never led to substantive negotiations. On Sunday night, Alvarez will defend all the belts in the super middleweight division against Britain’s John Ryder.

– At first, Jaime Munguia seemed interested in a duel with Bivol, but now it turns out that’s not the case anymore. To be honest, I’m not sure Munguia really wanted this meeting (Munguia will meet Sergey Derevyanchenko on June 10). We had a date scheduled for the fight – June 17, in the United States. But we were forced to postpone this date, because there is no opponent worthy of the name. Dmitry wants to have interesting fights, including in sports. Now in this division there are practically no such boxers left. Dmitry and Artur Beterbiev have already won almost all the best. We have negotiations with Canelo, but those negotiations will enter a more serious phase after his fight with John Ryder. So far, there are a lot of “buts” in our negotiations with Canelo that need to be resolved in order to implement revenge, Kornilov told .

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