Both undefeated, the former Olympian and current Ibf light-Hw champion Artur Beterbiev entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 12-0-0 (12 KOs=100%) and he is ranked as the No.8 light heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Eleider Alvarez) while his opponent, Callum Johnson, has an official record of 17-0-0 (12 knockouts) and he entered as the No.21 in the same weight class. In their last three bouts Beterbiev has won over Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna (Beterbiev vs Maderna), Isidro Ranoni Prieto (Beterbiev vs Prieto) and Enrico Koelling (Artur Beterbiev vs Enrico Koelling) while Johnson has beat Norbert Szekeres, Willbeforce Shihepo and Frank Buglioni (Frank Buglioni vs Callum Johnson). Beterbiev vs Johnson is valid for the IBF World light heavyweight title (Beterbiev’s first defense); undercard of Jessie Vargas vs Thomas Dulorme. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2018-10-06
Where: Wintrust Arena, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Title: IBF World light heavyweight title
Beterbiev’s previous fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Enrico Koelling
Johnson’s previous fight: Frank Buglioni vs Callum Johnson
Johnson’s next fight: Callum Johnson vs Sean Monaghan
Beterbiev’s next fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Radivoje Kalajdzic
Beterbiev vs Johnson full fight video:
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9kTjyCf0eI
Wow!
Hi is not “THE SOVIET” his name is Beterbiev, Biased commentators!!!
Noïce fight
Calling was to gun-shy as and Didn’t jump on Artur as after he had him down why when artur was backing up??????
Nice fight with good knock downs and an excellent knock out. A very difficult job to stop Arthur which in top of being a hard puncher looks like that his chin is quite good for a fast recovery.