12/17 ESPN+: Artur Beterbiev vs Marcus Browne (WBC/IBF Light Heavyweight Titles)

[patscorpio]

Artur Beterbiev will return to his adopted hometown following a five-year absence for his next fight.

BoxingScene.com has learned that Beterbiev’s mandated light heavyweight title defense against American Marcus Browne will headline Top Rank’s December 17 card from Bell Centre in Montreal. Staten Island’s Browne is the mandatory challenger for Beterbiev’s WBC 175-pound championship.

ESPN+ will stream Beterbiev-Browne and numerous undercard fights from the home arena of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens.

Eight of the Russian-born Beterbiev’s first 11 professional fights took place either in Montreal or Quebec City. The 2012 Olympian relocated to Montreal from Russia after signing with Group Yvon Michel, a prominent promoter in the province of Quebec.

After agreeing to a co-promotional agreement with Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. early in 2019, Beterbiev has fought in Stockton, California, Philadelphia and Moscow. His previous two fights took place in Fresno, California, and Chicago.

Top Rank won a WBC purse bid September 28 to earn the right to promote the Beterbiev-Browne bout. The winning bid from Arum’s company was $1,105,000.

The only other offer was made by TGB Promotions, which bid $1,001,000 on behalf of Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions.

Ten percent of Top Rank’s winning bid, $110,500, will be withheld by the WBC in an escrow account and awarded to the winner of their 12-round title fight. According to the WBC’s rules, Beterbiev, as the defending champion, is entitled to 70 percent of the balance of the winning bid ($696,150).

Browne is guaranteed 30 percent of what’s left of Top Rank’s winning bid ($298,350).

The 36-year-old Beterbiev (16-0, 16 KOs), who also owns the IBF belt, stopped Germany’s Adam Deines in the 10th round of his most recent bout, an IBF-mandated match March 20 at Khodynka Ice Palace in Moscow. Defeating Deines (20-2-1, 11 KOs) satisfied Beterbiev’s mandatory obligation with the IBF because visa issues prohibited the IBF’s original mandatory challenger for Beterbiev’s title, China’s Meng Fanlong (16-0, 10 KOs), from traveling internationally to battle Beterbiev.

The 30-year-old Browne (24-1, 16 KOs) has mostly been inactive since former WBC light heavyweight champ Jean Pascal upset him by technical decision in August 2019 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The 2012 U.S. Olympian out-pointed journeyman Denis Grachev (20-14-1, 11 KOs) unanimously in a non-televised 10-rounder April 21 at Shrine Auditorium & Exposition Center in Los Angeles. Russia’s Grachev is 1-7 in his past eight fights.

 

[James Gordon]

 

[Megadeus]

Its pronounced buh-TERB-yev

not BETTER-BE-ev

 

[reservoirdogs]

Beterbiev is a different kind of puncher than Pascal, not as explosive, rather ridiculously heavy-handed. I don't think this will make a difference though, sans some super counter by Browne I see Beterbiev finding his groove in a few rounds and grinding Browne down, finishing him by round 8

 

[Derek Lee]

 

[patscorpio]

shoulder programming...color me shocked

 

[FreedMind]

Holy shyt, Beterbiev seems like a nice guy in this show.

Didn't expect that at all.

 

[patscorpio]

Holy shyt, Beterbiev seems like a nice guy in this show.

Didn't expect that at all.

beterbiev is as cool as a fan,,he's just a dangerous guy

 

[FreedMind]

beterbiev is as cool as a fan,,he's just a dangerous guy

I remember reading that Kovalev had a beef with Artur, in part stemming from his perception that the Russian national team favored Artur more.

After watching this, and all the bad press about Kovalev, I wonder if Artur was just a nice guy that everyone liked while Kovalev was just an a$$hole who couldn't fathom why people didn't like him.

Seeing Artur have the face offs with the kids, man. How the fukk can you not root for him. Beterbiev needed this kind of exposure earlier!

 

[R=G]

Could be another stoppage by Beterbiev..those short heavy hands are no joke....

 

[patscorpio]

i swear these chechen cats be on some next shyt with their conditioning

 

[Megadeus]

i swear these chechen cats be on some next shyt with their conditioning

I could do that

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

i swear these chechen cats be on some next shyt with their conditioning

Sledge, tyre, med balls, aint nothing better for strength conditioning. Maybe chuck in a climbing rope too.

 

[patscorpio]

Sledge, tyre, med balls, aint nothing better for strength conditioning. Maybe chuck in a climbing rope too.

I'm a full supporter of training like that

I was big fan of doing fist pushups, incline fist pushups, decline fist pushups, and using the forearm grip machine to add more power to my punches

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

I'm a full supporter of training like that

I was big fan of doing fist pushups, incline fist pushups, decline fist pushups, and using the forearm grip machine to add more power to my punches

Dope, yeah all that stuff is vital. Katie Taylor's trainer Ross Enamait (from Conneticut?) got a great book on all that type of hand conditioning stuff. Dude is a master with conditioning. Nothing but hard work.



My top strength conditioning exercises for boxing

track bike, single speed, low gear bike (don't sleep on this)
sledge hammer swings
wood chop
tyre drag (harness)
tyre pull (rope pull and harness)
rope climb
cossack squats
planks
wheel rollouts
pull ups
gluten ham raise
ankle weights/hand weights etc
deadlift/squat

Conditioning for rounds (aside from boxing)
hill sprints at altitude
hill sprints
long runs
track runs
skipping (a lot)
tennis
swimming
burn machine (dope tool for getting conditioned for more punches per round.)