“When I have a choice of where to be, in the bar or in the gym, I prefer the gym,” Beterbiev said Thursday through an interpreter at the Rival boxing gym. MONTREAL—Only five days after winning the International Boxing Federation light heavyweight title, Artur Beterbiev was back at work. That gave him one of the three light heavyweight titles left vacant with the retirement of American Andre Ward in September. Dmitry Bivol of Russia owns the World Boxing Association belt while the World Boxing Organization title was won by Badou Jack of Sweden but immediately vacated again. Beterbiev is Ramsay’s third world champion after Lemieux and former WBC light heavyweight king Jean Pascal.

Source: thestar November 16, 2017 21:00 UTC