Unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) and former champion Dmitry Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) along with the undercard fighters held the final press conference today at the Riyadh Season. Beterbiev vs. Bivol 2 headlines the Last Crescendo fight night on Saturday, February 22 live worldwide on DAZN PPV (11 a.m. ET) from the ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In another development today, IBF heavyweight champion Daniel DuBois fell ill today and was forced to withdraw from the fight against former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (35-3, 23 KOs). As a result, Martin Bakole (21-1, 16 KOs) steps in to take on Parker replacing Daniel Dubois on the card.
The card features Shakur Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) defending his WBC lightweight title up against Josh Padley (15-0, 4 KOs) after Floyd Schofield was forced to withdraw due to illness.
WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames (24-1, 18 KOs) squares off against Hamzah Sheeraz (21-0, 17 KOs)
Super welterweights Vergil Ortiz Jr. (22-0, 21 KOs) and Israil Madrimov (10-1, 7 KOs) will clash for the WBC interim super welterweight title
Heavyweights Zhilei Zhang (27-2, 22 KOs) and Agit Kabayel (25-0, 17 KOs) will battle it out for the WBC interim heavyweight title.
British stars Joshua Buatsi (19-0, 13 KOs) and Callum Smith (30-2, 22 KOs) square off for the interim WBO light heavyweight title.
The preliminary card will showcase local talent with Ziyad Almaayouf (6-0-1, 1 KO) taking on Jonatas Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira (6-20, 5 KOs) in a welterweight bout and super featherweight Mohammed Alakel (2-0, 0 KOs) meets Engel Gomez (8-42, 4 KOs) in six round bouts.
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