Artur Beterbiev Артур Бетербиев |
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Real name | Artur Asilbekovich Beterbiev | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rated at | Light-heavyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reach | 185 cm (73 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Russian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Khasavyurt, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
21 January 1985 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total fights | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins by KO | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Losses | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artur Asilbekovich Beterbiev (Russian: Артур Асильбекович Бетербиев; born 21 January 1985) is a Russian professional boxer. As an amateur he won a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships, gold at the 2009 World Championships, as well as gold at the 2006 and 2010 European Championships, all in the light-heavyweight division. Beterbiev is particularly known for his formidable punching power, with all of his professional wins to date scored by knockout or stoppage.
Beterbiev competed as a light-heavyweight and heavyweight in his amateur career. He won the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships beating Kenneth Egan and Ismail Sillakh among others. He beat Egor Mekhontsev but lost to two-time world champion Evgeny Makarenko in 2006. In 2007 he beat future unified light-heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev in the semi-finals, and eventually beat Evgeny Makarenko in finals to qualify for the World Championships. In the finals of the World Championships he faced the little-known Abbos Atoev but lost in an upset.