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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
IBF Elimination Bout Between
Beterbiev
& Koelling July 29 In Quebec City
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The IBF light heavyweight elimination bout
between the Montrealer Russian Artur Beterbiev and the
German Enrico Koelling will be presented July 29th at the
Videotron Centre in Québec City. The news has been confirmed
Beterbiev in Montréal Friday afternoon.
It could be the last fight that Beterbiev will do with the
GYM Group. Few weeks ago, the Beterbiev’s lawyers sent a
letter to Yvon Michel, the promoter of the GYM Group,
indicating that their client wanted to break his contract
with the Montréal organization.
Beterbiev (11-0-0) is ranked second contender by the IBF in
the 175 pounds division, and Koelling is ranked fifth.
The winner of the elimination bout will become the mandatory
challenger for the Californian Andre Ward (31-0-0) or the
Russian Sergey Kovalev (30-1-1).
Ward will face Kovalev for the second time July 17th at the
Mandalay Bay Arena in Las Vegas, in a WBA, WBO and IBF light
heavyweight championships of the world.
November 19th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Ward
dethroned Kovalev as triple champion of the world, winning
by unanimous decision (three scores of 114-113). However,
most of the boxing writers covering this event, picked
Kovalev as the winner, by two or three points.
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