Did Dimitry Bivol Duck David Benavidez?

As you know, Undisputed champion Dmitry Bivol has vacated the WBC belt to face Artur Beterbiev in a trilogy. This was a move everyone knew about, including Sampson Lewkowicz and the WBC.

Dmitry Bivol's team sent a letter to Sulaiman stating that Bivol has been forced to relinquish the WBC title. Everyone knows we've committed to a third bout with Artur Beterbiev.

We plan on honoring that commitment. In addition, we are dismayed at the WBC's inability to adhere to the rotation system set up years ago. Mauricio Sulaiman knows that the IBF has claimed to be the lead organization in rotation for the next Bivol bout.

The WBC has chosen to skip the line and force a purse bid for a fight they know we can't currently honor. The WBC is not next in the rotation; the IBF is.

In May of 2023, Michael Eifert became the IBF mandatory to fight for the title. David Benavidez became the mandatory for the WBC strap when he beat Oleksandr Gvozdyk in June 2024.

As you can see, Benavidez isn't next in rotation. When David Benavidez was Canelo's mandatory for three years, Mauricio Sulaiman never forced Canelo to fight David, nor did Sampson.

Sampson and Benavidez said they can't force Canelo to fight them, yet they're using the WBC to force Bivol to fight them now. They know damn well he's bound to fight Beterbiev in a rubber match.

Samson and Mauricio are in cahoots together, and everybody knows it. Mauricio has made David an email champ as a gift for not forcing Canelo to fight David Benavidez at Super Middleweight.

This is the same Sulaiman who refused to sanction Beterbiev and Bivol in 2023. If it weren't for Turki Alalshikh, boxing fans never would have gotten undisputed at light heavyweight.

David Benavidez's fans say Benavidez is such a terrifying menace that Bivol is too afraid to fight Benavidez. It sounds good, but let me blow this narrative up quickly. I don't fault Dmitry Bivol for dropping the WBC belt.

I don't blame David Benavidez for becoming the newly crowned email champion. I blame Scamson Liarwitz and Mauricio Sulaiman. Here's why. In 2023, Mauricio Sulaiman denied Bivol the right to fight Beterbiez for undisputed because of the war with Ukraine and Russia.

What the hell did that have to do with Beterbiev and Bivol? Absolutely nothing. A Mexican-sanctioning body, headed by a crook, decided not to allow Beterbiev and Bivol to fight for undisputed because Mauricio sided with Ukraine on some American proxy war BS.

War and national politics have nothing to do with boxing.

Mauricio wants that same Russian fighter to honor his fake a** mandate. Do you see what's going on here? Scamson Liarwitz and Mauricio Sulaiman are working together to undermine two Russian fighters, just like Sualiman did back in 2023.

The WBC is a crooked organization, and everybody knows it. It's always been crooked. The WBC is a sh*teater organization that picks and chooses when it wants to enforce its own rules.

Bivol did right in dropping that belt, in my opinion. In 2025, I can honestly say that belts don't matter today. When I heard Floyd Mayweather say that years ago, I thought he was tripping.

When Tank Davis and Ryan Garcia said belts don't matter, I thought they were tripping. But I was wrong. Historically, I've always looked at the belts when we had real fighters like Leonard, Ray Robinson, Hagler, Duran, James Toney, Whitaker, Muhammad Ali, and others.

Now, the belts are genuinely worthless. Fighters like Tank, Canelo, Usyk, Fury, Inoue, Crawford, and Haney are bigger than the bets. As Floyd said, why pay a sanctioning body a percentage for wearing their belt?

Let David Benavidez defend his email title against another in-house PBC fighter. As for Dmitry Bivol, he did the right thing. Why fight David for peanuts when you're fighting Beterbiev for eight figures?

Bivol won the title two months ago and is forced to vacate. The IBF did the same thing to Terence Crawford after he beat Errol Spence. Crawford had the belt for under three months when the IBF stripped him, knowing he had a rematch clause with Spence.

How did the WBC skip the IBF in the mandatory rotation to force a purse bid? Crookery, that's how. The WBC stands for We Be Crooks for a reason.

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