Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-04-04, Artur Beterbiev vs Gabriel Campillo gets three stars thanks to a good finish.The 2009 world amateur champion Artur Beterbiev entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 7-0-0 (7 KOs=100%) and he is ranked as the No.14 light heavyweight in the world; he fought four times last year beating Tavoris Cloud (=Cloud vs Beterbiev) and Jeff Page Jr in his last two bouts (=Beterbiev vs Page Jr).
His opponent, the former Wba light-Hw champion Gabriel Campillo, has a record of 25-6-1 (12 knockouts) and he entered as the No.9 in the same weight class (currently the #1 in this division is Sergey Kovalev). He suffered his last defeat in 2013 when he faced Andrzej Fonfara (=Fonfara vs Campillo), since then he has won three fights beating Mirzet Bajrektarevic in his last one. Beterbiev vs Campillo is on the undercard of Adonis Stevenson vs Sakio Bika. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-04-04
Where: Pepsi Coliseum, Quebec City, Canada
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Beterbiev’s previous fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Jeff Page Jr
Beterbiev’s next fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Alexander Johnson
Campillo’s next fight: Marcus Browne vs Gabriel Campillo
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Official video:
Beterbiev is knocking on the door of a World Championship with only 19 rounds experience in 8 fights
Yeah! He’s just like Guillermo Rigondeaux (except for the weight!) who had an incredible amateur background: nearly 400 wins, a few world amateur championships and olympic medals. Rigondeaux became world champion after only 7 professional fights.
I think Beterbiev could beat Stevenson right now. He may need a few more fights before he takes on Kovalev, though.
I agree with you that he could beat him right now.
The problem is (I talked about it on the Stevenson-Bika post) that 4 out of light-hw top10 are training and fighting out of Montreal, Canada.
Beterbiev, Stevenson and Alavarez are with promoter Yvon Michel. Pascal is with promoter Jean Bédard (Interbox). And may I had… Pascal, Beterbiev and Alvarez have the same trainer, Marc Ramsay. They will have to fight one another soon enough.
Excellent knock out and he is a good technical boxer too. Campillo a good left hand boxer with reach advantage could do nothing to control this guy.