By Jim Dower: WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (26-1, 21 KOs) totally dominated a lighter looking Sakio Bika (32-7-3, 21 KOs) in winning a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / PBC on CBS) By Dan Ambrose: #7 WBC, #12 WBA, #13 IBF, #13 WBO light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) will be looking to make a case for himself to getting a shot at IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champ Sergey Kovalev when he faces former WBA 175 pound champ Gabriel Campillo (25-6-1, 12 KOs) tonight on the Adonis Stevenson – Sakio Bika card at the Pepsi Coliseum, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Beterbiev, 30, just turned pro two years ago in 2013 after having a long amateur career in Russia. He twice fought in the Olympics, and he reportedly defeated Kovalev on two occasions.
(Credit: Amanda Kwok / PBC on CBS) By Allan Fox: This Saturday night unbeaten #11 WBA light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) will be fighting 36-year-old former WBA cruiserweight champion Gabriel Campillo (25-6-1, 12 KOs) in a 12 round bout on the undercard of the Adonis Stevenson vs. Sakio Bika fight at the Pepsi Coliseum, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Beterbiev isn’t worried at all about the Campillo fight. He sees it as a bout that he’ll definitely win. The bout that he wants is against IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev.
By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated #11 WBA, #15 WBO light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) will be facing former WBa 175lb champion Gabriel Campillo (25-6-1, 12 KOs) on April 4th on the Adonis Stevenson card in Quebec, Canada, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.
This is a decent test for the 30-year-old Beterbiev, a Russian Olympian from the 2012 Olympics. However, this isn’t as big a deal as some boxing fans might think it is because Campillo is now 36-years-old and not the fighter he was back in 2009 when he briefly held the WBA title before losing it to Beibut Shumenov by a very controversial decision in 2010.
By Dan Ambrose: #11 WBA light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) will be fighting on April 4th against a still to be determined opponent in a 10 round scheduled bout on the same card as headliner WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson in Quebec, Canada.
Beterbiev, 30, could have fought #2 WBC 175 pound contender Isaac Chilemba, but either Beterbiev or his promoters were reportedly not interested in that fight. Chilemba thinks Beterbiev is scared of him and he’s been letting boxing fans know about it on his twitter account.
By Allan Fox: #2 WBC, #5 WBO, #11 IBF light heavyweight contender Isaac Chilemba (23-2-2, 10 KOs) is pushing hard for a fight against unbeaten and untested #11 WBA, #11 WBC Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) for a fight that could take place on the March 14th undercard of the Sergey Kovalev vs. Jean Pascal fight at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Chilemba’s promoters at Main Events are interested in making the fight against the 29-year-old Beterbiev. However, the negotiations have not gone anywhere as of yet because Beterbiev’s management hasn’t given him the green light for the fight.
By Jim Dower: The much talked about fight between light heavyweight contenders Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) and Isaac Chilemba (23-2-2, 10 KOs) is still in a holding pattern for March 14th on the Jean Pascal vs. Sergey Kovalev fight card at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Chilemba’s promoter Kathy Duva of Main Events is very interested in putting the fight together, and she’s just waiting on Beterbiev’s promoters Yvon Michel and Jean Bedard to sit down with her to start ironing out the negotiations.
By Allan Fox: A fight between#11 WBA, #11 WBC light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) and #2 WBC, #5 WBO, #7 IBF Isaac Chilemba (23-2-2, 10 KOs) is in the works for March 14th as part of a triple-header on HBO as part of the Sergey Kovalev vs. Jean Pascal broadcast, according to Dan Rafael.
Chilemba has agreed to the fight. Now we just need to get the green light from Beterbiev’s promoter Yvon Michel, and then the fight can be put together. It would be a good step up fight for Beterbiev, because Chilemba, 27, is arguably a better fighter than Tavoris Cloud, a recent Beterbiev knockout victim.
By Dan Ambrose: Jean Pascal wasn’t too impressed with the level of opposition for WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson in his mismatch last Friday night against a badly over-matched Dmitry Sukhotsky.
This was Stevenson’s fourth stay busy level opponent since he won the WBC title in June of 2013. Since then, Stevenson has beaten the following challengers: Tavoris Cloud, Tony Bellew, Andrzej Fonfara and Sukhotskiy. You can make a strong argument that all four of them were stay busy type opponents rather than challengers that had a real chance of beating Stevenson.
By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated #10 WBA light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) showed excellent power in destroying American Jeff Page Jr (15-1, 10 KOs) last Friday night by a 2nd round knockdown at the Colisee de Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
The 29-year-old Beterbiev was knocked down in the 1st round by a right hand he never saw. It turned out to be a wakeup call for Beterbiev, as he came out with a vengeance in the 2nd round and knocked Page Jr down three times in the round before the fight was halted at 2:21 of the round by referee Jean-Guy Brousseau.
Beterbiev said afterwards that he was sleepy in the opening round, and the knockdown woke him up. After that he was okay, but he needed something to get him to weak up and start fighting effectively.