Those looking forward to the return of Artur Beterbiev will have to wait a little longer.
The light heavyweight titleholder’s defense against Adam Deines, scheduled for Oct. 23 in Moscow, has been postponed because the Russian suffered a rib injury in training, his promoter announced.
The fight is expected to be rescheduled before the end of the year, probably in December.
Beterbiev (15-0, 15 KOs) is the only current world titleholder who has stopped all of his opponents. He’s coming off an impressive 10th-round stoppage of previously unbeaten Oleksandr Gvozdyk in a title-unification bout in October of last year.
Deines (19-1-1, 10 KOs) has won two consecutive fights since he lost a unanimous decision to Fanlong Meng in June of last year. He’s a native of Russia who lives in Germany.