Who will Artur Beterbiev 🇷🇺 fight next?
Short answer
Most likely next opponent: Dmitry Bivol🇷🇺 (10%, talks).
Confidence: Medium · Updated (UAE time)
Out with a bone infection, which postponed his fight with Callum Smith.
Forecast: likely next opponents NextSmash estimate
Each percentage is the estimated chance of being Artur Beterbiev's next opponent. These are not chances of winning.
- 10%chance next opponentArtur Beterbiev lost to Dmitry Bivol on 22 Feb 2025 (MD). A third fight is being explored for after Bivol-Smith.Spring 2027, Russia (explored)
Field / other: 90%. This covers everyone not listed above.
- Last fight
- Loss vs Dmitry Bivol · MD · 22 Feb 2025
- Confidence
- Medium (High = officially booked · Medium = credible report, sanctioning-body order, talks or a boxer's own claim · Low = model only)
- Boxing factors
- Mandatory challengers, vacated belts, rematch clauses, Riyadh Season / The Ring events, promoter and network ties, and crossover fights
- Last updated
- (UAE time)
Rankings note: belts are labelled by the body that awards them (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO or The Ring). The order of boxers on these pages is a NextSmash list, not an official ranking.
Artur Beterbiev: frequently asked questions
When is Artur Beterbiev's next fight?
No fight is officially booked as of 2 Oct 2026. The leading option is Dmitry Bivol (Spring 2027, Russia (explored)).
Who did Artur Beterbiev fight last?
Artur Beterbiev lost to Dmitry Bivol on 22 Feb 2025 (MD). Source: Wikipedia.
Who is Artur Beterbiev likely to fight next?
NextSmash estimate of the next opponent: Dmitry Bivol (10%), field / other 90%. These are chances of being the next opponent, not chances of winning. Updated 2 Oct 2026.
What is Artur Beterbiev's record?
21–1 (wins–losses–draws, no-contests in brackets) after the fight on 22 Feb 2025, as listed on Wikipedia.
Other light heavyweight boxers
- Callum Smith🇬🇧 · WBO interim light heavyweight · next: Dmitry Bivol 70%
- Dmitry Bivol🇷🇺 · WBA (Super) light heavyweight · next: Callum Smith 70%
- Joshua Buatsi🇬🇧 · No world title listed · next: Willy Hutchinson Booked
More: Light Heavyweight belts and next fights · All boxing
Sources
- Wikipedia: Artur Beterbiev · record and last fight (revision 1373056345)
- The Ring: Third Bivol-Beterbiev bout being explored for spring in Russia
- BoxingScene: Artur Beterbiev vs. Callum Smith postponed, Beterbiev suffers bone infection
Percentages are NextSmash estimates from the reports and factors above, not facts and not betting advice. Records and last fights come from Wikipedia. We do not use BoxRec data. Anything we could not verify is left out.