Artur Beterbiev’s rematch with Dmitry Bivol rematch, on a blockbuster bill featuring Daniel Dubois’ IBF heavyweight title clash with Joseph Parker, on February 22 will be live on Sky Sports Box Office.
Beterbiev, the undisputed light-heavyweight world champion, fights Bivol once again after handing the former WBA titlist his first professional defeat in October to unify all four of the major belts.
Bivol did become the first professional opponent to go the distance with fearsome puncher Beterbiev and he wants revenge for his contentious decision defeat, as well as the chance to win the IBF, WBC, WBO and WBA world championships.
On the same Riyadh Season event, live Sky Sports Box Office, Daniel Dubois returns to action after he secured an emphatic knockout victory over British boxing superstar Anthony Joshua inside five rounds at Wembley Stadium in September.
Dubois first became the IBF’s Interim titlist when he beat Filip Hrgovic in June. His status was upgraded to full world champion when Oleksandr Usyk’s commitment to his December 21 rematch with Tyson Fury meant he had to vacate that belt.
Parker will be a serious challenge for him.
The New Zealander is a former world champion himself and has been pressing for another title shot with a sequence of eye-catching victories, notably upsetting hard-punching former WBC champion Deontay Wilder last year and then outpointing Zhilei Zhang to win the WBO Interim title.
Daniel Dubois and Joseph Parker trade verbals ahead of their IBF heavyweight showdown on February 22
Two top-level British light-heavyweights meet when Joshua Buatsi fights Callum Smith for the former’s WBO Interim title.
Buatsi captured the belt with a decisive win over Willie Hutchinson last September, while Smith, a former world champion at super middleweight, rebounded from last year’s loss to Beterbiev with a November stoppage of Carlos Galvan.
Check out some of Artur Beterbiev’s most devastating knockouts
Also on the card, Zhang will fight unbeaten heavyweight contender Agit Kabayel for the WBC Interim heavyweight title.
Zhang is coming off a devastating knockout win over Wilder, while Kabayel builds on back-to-back triumphs over unbeaten behemoths Arslanbek Makhmudov in December 2023 and Frank Sanchez last May.
Joshua Buatsi makes it clear that he wants the winner of Artur Beterbiev v Dmitry Bivol
Ilford’s Hamzah Sheeraz challenges for a stake of world championship glory when he takes on Carlos Adames for the WBC middleweight title.
Adames is 5-0 since his lone loss, including wins over Sergiy Derevyanchenko and Julian Williams. Sheeraz had a breakout year in 2024, notching stoppage victories over Liam Williams, Austin Williams, and Tyler Denny.
A look at some of Daniel Dubois’ biggest knockouts ahead of his huge heavyweight showdown with Joseph Parker.
Shakur Stevenson is also set to make a defence of his WBC lightweight belt against Floyd Schofield, while Vergil Ortiz will risk his WBC Interim super-welterweight title against Israil Madrimov.
Ortiz seized the belt in August 2024 with a gruelling majority decision over Serhii Bohachuk, rising from the canvas twice to prevail on the scorecards. Madrimov returns following his first career setback, a unanimous decision loss to pound-for-pound great Terence Crawford.
