Bivol will vacate his WBC belt

The one that Turki wants which is Beterbiev plus Benavidez was pricing himself out and trying to set demands when he's not even a champ.

 

I sure don't want to see a 3rd fight,,,,

 

The Benavidez camp never wanted the fight, which is why they enforced their mandatory, and refused a lucrative step aside offer. What a shameless ducker!

 

How can you calling enforcing your mandatory a duck? I don’t think Bivol is ducking him either but wants to take the lucrative pay day His Excellency is offering for the trilogy 1st. David Benavidez has been waiting, first Canelo ducked him so why should he wait any longer.

 

Do you think Benavidez will fight at Cruiserweight before his time is done?

 

I agree, he'd be tougher and I think Bivol believes Benavidez would be tougher since he's ducking him like he was trying to serve a subpoena on him,, Just like Canelo..

 

He was given a chance to fighting for ALL the belts in a neutral country. He refused. His promoter refused.

Benevidez's promoter tried to diminish Bivol's drawing power by claiming that he only made $2.7 million against Beterbiev, when he got $10 million.

This is a case of a B-Side trying to acting like an A-Side and using politics to force a fight in the US or get the champ stripped. Haney went to Australia to fight Kambosos. Fulton went to Japan to fight Inoue. Dubai is not even the champion's home country. It's neutral territory.

Instead of potentially winning all 4 belts, the Benevidez team bitched out and ended with an email belt because they're too scared to fight Bivol, the undisputed champ in Dubai.

What a shameless ducker indeed.

 

What youre implying is a bit contradicting. If it goes to purse bid Bivol would receive 70% of the winning bid compared to 30% for Benavidez , therefore it made absolutely no sense for Bivol to pull out. Simply put Bivol isn't interested or Turki isn't interested but it's likely both of them and as I already stated the the purse split leans heavily in Bivol's favor so your theory about Benavidez pricing himself out is incorrect.

 

He was trying to make it 55/45 and only wanted to fight in the US which is ridiculous for someone who wasn't even a champ at the time.

 

https://www.essentiallysports.com/b...fight-purse-leading-to-possible-cancellation/

Benavidez side requested 55-45 split in Bivol’s favor. WBC didn’t give him that but has agreed to amend the split, allowable under the rules, to 60-40 in Bivol’s favor,” he added. When a user pressed Rafael, asking whether the fight was happening, he responded, stating, “Not necessarily. It’s just what the WBC ordered and what [the] Benavidez camp wants. Bivol has other options.”

Can't believe the Benevidez team try to get a 55-45 split when he had 0 belts.

 

Thanks i wasn't aware of this. I'm not sure how I feel about the amended split but I'm just assuming that a Vegas fight Benavidez would still be more lucrative than a rubber match with Beterbiev. But it is what it is, I'll watch the trilogy fight although I don't care to see it and hopefully Benavidez finds a decent opponent as well.