Artur Beterbiev beat Dmitry Bivol by a majority resolution to grow to be the primary undisputed mild heavyweight champion within the division for greater than 20 years.
The 39-year-old Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) had gained all 20 of his earlier fights by knockout however was pressured the gap by his fellow Russian rival in Riyadh within the early hours of Sunday morning in a struggle that had a number of swings of momentum and was virtually too near name.
Ultimately, two ringside judges scored it 115-113, 116-112 for Beterbiev, with a 3rd choose scoring it as a 114-114 draw. (The Guardian had it 114-114.)
The headline conflict on the Saudi capital’s Kingdom Enviornment, postponed from June after Montreal-based Beterbiev suffered a knee harm, put all 4 main world titles – WBO, WBA, IBF and WBC – within the fingers of 1 man for the primary time.
The final undisputed light-heavyweight champion was the Russian-American Roy Jones Jr who beat Reggie Johnson to unify the WBA, WBC and IBF belts in 1999.
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