The highly anticipated undisputed world light heavyweight championship showdown between WBC/IBF/WBO champion Artur Beterbiev and WBA ruler Dmitry Bivol — scheduled for Saturday, June 1 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — has been postponed after Beterbiev suffered a ruptured meniscus in training. The plan is to reschedule Beterbiev-Bivol before the end of the year, and additional details will be provided in due course. In response to the news, Turki Alalshikh, the Saudi government official who controls Saudi boxing and has a seemingly unlimited budget, tweeted that the remained of the show will go on as planned. His tweet read, "After receiving today’s news about Beterbiev’s injury, we will be postponing the Beterbiev vs. Bivol fight scheduled for June 1st until later this year. Wishing my brother Artur a speedy recovery. However, the [Queensberry v. Matchroom] 5v5 event is still on for June 1st." 

 

The Queensberry vs. Matchroom 5v5 fights, with the Queensberry boxer listed first are:

Daniel Dubois vs. Filip Hrgovic (this fight will likely be for the vacant IBF heavyweight title, which is slated to be vacated in the immediate aftermath of the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury four-belt, world heavyweight championship unification bout to be held on May 18th)... Zhilei Zhang vs. Deontay Wilder (although Wilder is not really with Matchroom, he will compete for the Matchroom team and was named the captain by promoter Eddie Hearn, meaning Wilder's points will count double)... Nick Ball vs. Ray Ford (at stake will be Ford's WBA world featherweight title)... Hamzah Sheeraz vs. Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams (this will be a battle of undefeated middleweights with Sheeraz serving as captain of the Queensberry team) and Willy Hutchinson vs. Craig ‘Spider’ Richard (light heavyweights).