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Artur Beterbiev: I’m ready for Oleksandr Gvozdyk

Two light heavyweight titleholders collide tomorrow night.

In a quick interview with Fight Hub TV, IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev fields a few questions leading into tomorrow night’s title unification with WBC titleholder Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Check it out...

Beterbiev on how excited he is for this fight:

“I’m very excited, this fight. It’s very important fight in my career, it’s biggest fight in my career. I’m prepared very well. I’m ready.”

On what he thinks of Gvozdyk’s style:

“I think his style — he has good movement, he has enough power, you know, he’s good fighter. We’ll see.”

On how important it was for him to get some experience going into the late rounds:

“It’s good, because for me too, I’m interested about that. I want to try 12 rounds. I tried, once, and I like that. It’s not bad.”

On who he likes to win between Canelo and Kovalev:

“I don’t think about that. I don’t think about them, it’s not my [business], I have fight October 18th. Only this fight.”

On if he’s planning to get his hands on all the light heavyweight belts:

“Yes. But don’t tell them..”

On what he made of Usyk’s heavyweight debut:

“I didn’t see this fight.”

On if he has a message to his fans out there:

“Come to see our fight, it will be great fight. You will see.”

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