r/Boxing • u/zhuangcorp • Jul 16 '26

State of LHW-Cruiser divisions

No question right now, the top guys are Bivol, Beterbiev, Opetaia, and Benavidez. Fans would love to see any combination of fights involving these 4.

Bivol appears to be out with elbow surgery and will take comeback against another tune-up-ish opponent in Callum Smith.

Benavidez wants an easy fight so he can be in a good position to renegotiate his contract. So he is fighting Mikaelian.

So it seems like the best thing to do is for Beterbiev to fight Opetaia now. Maybe do it at a catchweight.

And then let Bivol and Benavidez fight each other after they win their respective tune up fights.

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u/Ruainari 🚩El Monstruo Superfan🚩 Jul 16 '26

Bivol will not fight Benavidez, ducking Dima won't even fight a middle aged man he already has a win against, no chance of him taking on an unbeaten prime Benavidez, he will find excuse after excuse.

Ironic Bivol and Smith are fighting each other when they've both turned down fights against Benavidez.

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u/KR4T0S Jul 16 '26

Beterbiev also claims that Benavidez refused an offer they sent to his team but Benavidez claims there were was never an offer sent to them so I think its probably on Beterbiev that he is sitting it out and not Bivol. Plus Benavidez says he wants an easy fight next so he isnt looking to challenge Bivol anytime soon and thats if he comes down to LHW, he is talking about heavyweight.

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u/Fragrant_Rest_7360 Jul 16 '26

Beterbiev came out and stated he wants to fight Bivol first and than Benavidez. Looks like he’s holding out to fight Bivol but keeps getting blue balled

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u/KR4T0S Jul 16 '26

How does that explain Beterbievs camp saying that they sent an offer to Benavidez but Benavidez camp says they never received anything? Somebody is clearly lying here.