Alright, so I wanted to figure out what’s next for Dmitry Bivol. You know, he’s one sharp boxer, and I was curious about his upcoming schedule.
My process started pretty simply. Just opened up my computer, went to my usual search engine. I typed in the basics first, things like “Dmitry Bivol next fight” and “Bivol fight schedule 2024”. Just trying to get a general feel for what was out there.
Instantly got a flood of results, news articles, forum posts, all that stuff. Lots of talk, as expected, about the massive fight everyone wanted to see – him against Artur Beterbiev for all the light heavyweight belts. That seemed to be the main headline everywhere for a while.
But as I clicked through a few links, I started seeing conflicting information, or rather, updates. Found out that Beterbiev apparently got injured. Something about his knee, I think? A ruptured meniscus kept coming up in the reports. That obviously meant the original plan for their fight, which I gathered was supposed to be around June 1st, got scrapped. Bummer, right?
Trying to Find the New Plan
Okay, so the Beterbiev fight is delayed. What now? I refined my search a bit. Tried stuff like “Bivol replacement opponent June” or “Bivol fight news update”.
This led me down a path where a new name started appearing: Malik Zinad. It seemed like the organizers, likely over in Saudi Arabia where the fight was planned, wanted Bivol to stay on the card. So they looked for a replacement fighter pretty quickly.
I dug into this a bit more. Looked at some boxing specific news sites I trust more than just random search results. They all seemed to be reporting the same story: Beterbiev injured, Zinad stepping in to fight Bivol on the original date, June 1st.
- Checked main boxing news outlets.
- Looked for promoter announcements (though those can be hard to find sometimes).
- Scanned recent articles specifically mentioning Bivol and June 1st.
Everything seemed to point towards Zinad being the guy. It wasn’t the undisputed clash everyone hoped for initially, but it meant Bivol would still be fighting, which is good news for fans wanting to see him in action.
So, after spending some time searching and reading through the updates, that’s where I landed. The big one with Beterbiev is on hold due to injury, but it looks very likely that Bivol’s next fight is locked in against Malik Zinad for June 1st. It’s always a bit tentative until the fighters are stepping through the ropes, but that seems to be the current, confirmed plan based on all the digging I did. Just gotta wait and see now.
