On Friday, October 18th, Philadelphia plays host to a light heavyweight unification bout between WBC champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk (17-0, 14 KOs) and IBF champion Artur Beterbiev (14-0, 14 KOs). It is a great, very intriguing and tough to predict match up between two legitimate top fighters that should pique the interest of any combat sports fan.
Ukraine’s Gvozdyk took his WBC belt from then lineal champion Adonis Stevenson back in December and has since defended it with a 5th round injury TKO against Doudou Ngumbu. Beterbiev won the vacant IBF belt against Enrico Koelling in November of 2017 and has defended it twice since.