Artur Assilbekowitsch Beterbijew

Artur Beterbiev
Data
Birth Name	Artur Assilbekowitsch Beterbijew
Weight class	Light heavyweight
nationality	Russian
birthday	January 21, 1985
place of birth	Hasavyurt
style	Left delivery
size	1.84 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	15th
Victories	15th
Knockout victories	15th
Defeats	0
draw	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Artur Assilbekowitsch Beterbijew ( Russian Артур Асильбекович Бетербиев ; born January 21, 1985 in Chassavyurt , Dagestani ASSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian professional boxer of Chechen origin. He has been the IBF light heavyweight champion since November 11, 2017 .

As an amateur, he was one of the best boxers in the world. He was European champion in 2006, vice world champion in 2007, world cup winner in 2008, world champion in 2009 and European champion again in 2010, and he also represented his home country at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.

Career

Artur Beterbijew started boxing as a teenager in his hometown. His first coach was his father Assilbek Beterbijew. He later moved to Chelyabinsk and Moscow , where he studies at the Russian Institute of Physical Culture (sports student). His Moscow trainer was M. Romantschik. Artur Beterbijew is Chechen, starts for Russia and lives in Canada.

At the age of 16, Artur Beterbijew started at the Welterweight World Championships for Cadets (U-17) in Baku in 2001 . He fought his way up to the final, in which he lost to Ismajil Sillach from Ukraine . As a junior, he also took second place at an international tournament in Volgograd in 2003 . He lost there in the final battle against the Russian Igor Michalkin .

In Russia, he was initially overshadowed by world champion Yevgeny Makarenko . In 2004 and 2005 he took third place in the light heavyweight division at the Russian championship. In 2005 he lost it in the semifinals against Michail Gala on points (27:39). In the same year he won two strong international tournaments, namely the “Independence Cup” in Santiago , Dominican Republic and the “Multi-Nationas Cup” in Ballybunion / Ireland.

At the Russian championship in 2006 he reached the final. But he was disqualified there in the final fight against Yevgeny Makarenko in the fourth round. Since Yevgeny Makarenko then failed due to injury, he got the chance to start at the European Senior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria . He used his chance there and won with a points win over Terwel Pulew , Bulgaria (38:22), demolition wins over Artak Malumjan from Armenia and Kenneth Egan from Ireland and a point win over Ismajil Sillach, who was his final opponent at the Junior World Championships in 2001 , European light heavyweight champion.

In 2007 Artur Beterbijew won the well-attended tournament in Ústí nad Labem with a victory in the final battle against Jerdos Dschanabergenow from Kazakhstan . After he had beaten Yevgeny Makarenko for the first time at the Russian championship in 2007, he was also used by head coach Alexander Lebsjak at the world championship in Chicago in the light heavyweight division. In Chicago he won against Washington Silva from Brazil by demolition in the third round and Dawit Ziklauri, Georgia (23: 9) and Imre Szellő , Hungary (25: 9) on points before it by a bloodless victory over Daugirdas Šemiotas from Lithuania stood in the final. In this final he relied too much on his physical superiority, lost to Abbos Atoyev from Uzbekistan with 17:20 points and took second place.

In 2008, Beterbijew won two strong international tournaments. In Helsinki he won it in the semifinals over Abbos Atoyev by disqualification in the fourth round and thus successfully took revenge for the defeat at the 2007 World Cup. At the Feliks Stamm tournament in Warsaw he defeated Marek Springl from the Czech Republic by breaking off in the first Round.

Artur Beterbijew competed in the light heavyweight division at the Olympic Games in Beijing . There he won his first fight against Kennedy Katende from Sweden clearly on points (3:15). In the next round he met the Chinese Zhang Xiaoping , against whom he surprisingly and very controversially lost on points (2: 8) and only finished in a disappointing ninth place.

At the end of the year Artur Beterbijew then won a World Cup tournament in Moscow in December 2008 with victories over Vladimir Cheleş, Moldova , Dinesh Kumar , India and the 2007 world champion, Abbos Atoyev.

In 2009 Artur Beterbijew qualified in Russia at a qualifying tournament in Chekhov with victories over Sergei Gusew, Eduard Jakuschew and Nikita Ivanov for participation in the World Cup in Milan . There he had another great success, because he became world champion in light heavyweight for the first time with five wins . On the way to this title he defeated, among others, Dinesh Kumar, José Larduet from Cuba and in the final Elshod Rasulov from Uzbekistan .

At the 2010 European Championships in Moscow, Artur Beterbijew clearly dominated his weight class. He came with a points win over Hrvoje Sep, Croatia and demolition wins over Bosko Drasković, CGR, Artur Chatschatrjan, Armenia and Abdelkader Bouhenia from France to another title win.

In 2011 Beterbijew started at the World Championships , but retired after victories over Mario Heredia, Mexico (1st), and Dschachon Kurbanow, Tajikistan (2nd), in the quarter-finals against the eventual world champion Oleksandr Ussyk , Ukraine (17:13) , with which he took 5th place.

With this placement, Beterbijew qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games , in which he failed in the quarter-finals as at the World Championships to Oleksandr Ussyk (17:13) after a narrow knockout round of 16 victory over Michael Hunter , USA (+10: 10).

Professional career

Beterbijew has been boxing in the professional camp since 2013. In September 2014 he defeated Tavoris Cloud (24-2) in his sixth fight by knockout in the second round. In December 2014 followed a knockout victory in the second round against Jeff Page junior (15-0). He was thereby North American champion of the associations IBF, WBA and WBO. In April 2015 he defeated Gabriel Campillo (25-6) by knockout in the fourth round.

In June 2015, he beat Alexander Johnson (16-2) and became WBO International Champion. With two more wins against Ezequiel Maderna (23-2) and Isidro Prieto (26-1) he recommended himself for a world championship fight of the IBF and defeated Enrico Kölling (23-1) by knockout in the twelfth round.

List of professional fights

15 wins (15 knockout wins), 0 defeats , 0 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Beterbiev
2013	8th June	Center Bell , Montréal, Canada	Christian Cruz	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	September 28th	Center Bell , Montréal, Canada	Rayco Saunders	Victory / abandonment 3rd round
	30th of November	Colisee Pepsi , Quebec, Canada	Billy Bailey	Victory / KO 1st round
2014	January 18th	Center Bell , Montréal, Canada	Gabriel Lecrosnier	Victory / TKO 4th round
	August 22nd	Complexe Sportif Sportscene, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada	Alvaro Enriquez	Victory / TKO 1st round
	September 27th	Center Bell , Montréal, Canada	Tavoris Cloud NABA Light Heavyweight Championship	Victory / KO 2nd round
	19. December	Colisee Pepsi , Quebec, Canada	Jeff Page Jr NABA Light Heavyweight Title Defense IBF NA Light Heavyweight Championship WBO NABO Light Heavyweight Championship	Victory / KO 2nd round
2015	4. April	Colisee Pepsi , Quebec, Canada	Gabriel Campillo IBF-NA light heavyweight title defense	Victory / KO 4th round
	June 12	UIC Pavilion, Chicago, USA	Alexander Johnson NABA Light Heavyweight Title Defense WBO International Light Heavyweight Championship	Victory / TKO 7th round
2016	June 4th	Center Bell , Montréal, Canada	Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna NABA light heavyweight title defense	Victory / TKO 4th round
	23rd of December	Lac Leamy Casino, Gatineau, Canada	Isidro Ranoni Prieto NABA light heavyweight title defense	Victory / TKO 1st round
2017	November 11th	Save Mart Center, Fresno, USA	Enrico Koelling vacant IBF light heavyweight world championship	Victory / KO 12th round
2018	October 6th	Wintrust Arena , Chicago, USA	Callum Johnson IBF light heavyweight title defense	Victory / KO 4th round
2019	May 4th	Stockton Arena , Stockton, USA	Radivoje Kalajdzic IBF light heavyweight title defense	Victory / KO 5th round
	October 18	Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, USA	Oleksandr Gvozdyk IBF / WBC Light Heavyweight Title Association	Victory / TKO 10th round
2020	28th March	Center Vidéotron , Québec, Canada	Fanlong Meng IBF / WBC light heavyweight title defense	Pending
Source: Artur Assilbekowitsch Beterbijew in the BoxRec database

Further international successes

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, welterweight, up to 69 kg, light heavyweight, up to 81 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	Weight class
2001	3.	Cadet World Cup in Baku	Welter	behind Ismajil Sillach , Ukraine a. Elçin Əlizadə , Azerbaijan , together with Tornike Iwanaschwili, Georgia
2003	2.	Junior tournament in Volgograd	Semi-difficult	behind Igor Michalkin , Russia
2005	1.	Independente Cup in Santiago , Cathedral. Rep.	Semi-difficult	before Azeh Augustama, Haiti a . Argenis Nuñez, Dom. Rep.
2005	1.	Multi-Nations-Tournament in Ballybunion (Ireland)	Semi-difficult	before Darren O'Neill , Ireland a . Steven Musici, Sweden
2006	1.	Tournament in Ústí nad Labem	Semi-difficult	before Jerdos Dschanabergenow , Kazakhstan a. Tomas Kovacs, Hungary
2006	1.	EM in Plovdiv	Semi-difficult	before Ismajil Sillach, Ukraine , Kenneth Egan , Ireland and Constantin Bejenaru , Romania
2007	2.	World Cup in Chicago	Semi-difficult	behind Abbos Atoyev , Uzbekistan u. before Daugirdas Šemiotas , Lithuania and Jerkabulan Schinalijew , Kazakhstan
2008	1.	Gee-Bee tournament in Helsinki	Semi-difficult	before Imre Szellő , Hungary a. Abbos Atoyev
2008	1.	"Feliks-Stamm" tournament in Warsaw	Semi-difficult	in front of Marek Springl, Czech Republic
2008	9.	OS in Beijing	Semi-difficult	Winner: Zhang Xiaoping , China ahead of Kenneth Egan, Ireland, Tony Jeffries , Great Britain a . Jerkabulan Shinaliyev, Kazakhstan
2008	1.	World Cup tournament in Moscow	Semi-difficult	with victories over Vladimir Cheleș, Moldova , Dinesh Kumar , India a . Abbos Atoyev
2009	2.	53rd Bocskai Memorial in Debrecen	Semi-difficult	with demolition victory in the 1st round over Mitja Disić, Slovenia , point victory over José Larduet , Cuba (15: 8), victory without a fight over Ramasan Magomedow, Belarus a. a point defeat (12: 12+) against Imre Szellő , Hungary
2009	1.	World Cup in Milan	Semi-difficult	with demolition victory in the 2nd round over Jamal Ali Layej, Iraq , point victory over Babacar Kamara , Sweden (11: 1), demolition victory in the 2nd round over Dinesh Kumar, India a. Point wins over José Larduet (10: 6) u. Elshod Rasulov , Uzbekistan (13:10)
2010	1.	EM in Moscow	Semi-difficult	with a points win over Hrvoje Sep, Croatia (15: 4) and demolition wins over Bosko Drasković, CDR (3rd round), Artur Chatschatrjan, Armenia (3rd round) and Abdelkader Bouhenia , France (1st round)

Russian championships

year	space	Weight class
2004	3	Semi-difficult	behind Michail Gala u. Yegor Mechonzew
2005	3.	Semi-difficult	behind Michail Gala u. Yegor Mechonzew
2006	2.	Semi-difficult	behind Yevgeny Makarenko u. before Michail Gala u. Yegor Mechonzew
2007	1.	Semi-difficult	before Jewgeni Makarenko, Sergei Kowaljow and Yegor Mechonzew

International battles

year	place	encounter	Weight class	Result
2007	Baku	Russia versus the People's Republic of China (World Cup)	Hs	Points winner over Lei Yuping
2007	Baku	Russia versus Ukraine (World Cup)	Semi-difficult	KO winner 2nd round over Ismajil Sillach
2007	Baku	Russia versus Africa (World Cup)	Semi-difficult	Demolition winner 3rd round over Thabiso Mchunu, South Africa
2007	Baku	Russia versus Cuba (World Cup)	Semi-difficult	Demolition winner 1st round over Yunier Dorticos
2008	Magnitogorsk	Russia versus USA	Semi-difficult	Points winner over Christopher Downs (12: 9)
2008	Novosibirsk	Russia versus USA	Semi-difficult	Demolition winner 3rd round over Siju Shabasz

Web links

• Final fight World Championship 2009 between Artur Beterbijew against Elschod Rasulow

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• Box Sport magazine from 2001 to 2008,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• Website "www.eastsideboxing.com",
• Website "www.chechenfighters, com",
• "Sports123.com" website