Bivol and Smith's duel officially announced

The next duel of the Russian boxer, the former absolute world champion in light heavyweight and the current owner of the belts WBA-Super, IBO, IBF, The Ring and WBO Dmitry Bivol officially announced. As expected, the Russian will hold a mandatory defense of the WBO title in a duel with interim champion, the British Callum Smith. The boxers will meet in the ring on December 12 at the RCC Boxing tournament in Yekaterinburg.

Earlier, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) ordered Bivol to defend. If he refused, he would lose his belt.

Dmitry recently announced that he had already begun preparations for the confrontation. His training camp takes place in the UAE. The last time the Russian athlete entered the ring in may of this year. In the battle against the German Michael Eifert, he won by unanimous decision of the judges. Before that, Bivol was in idle for more than a year because of the operation on the spine, which he had in August last year. On account of Dmitry 25 victories and one defeat.

Callum Smith last match held in February last year against Joshua Bouatsi and won by unanimous refereeing, winning the title of interim WBO light heavyweight champion. In the asset of the British 31 wins and 2 defeats.