'IT'S NOT FAIR!' - BIVOL RAGES at WBC, Canelo, 'MIXING POLITICS & SPORT'

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with Dimitri bival you've been sat here

all day answering a lot of the same

questions over and over again but the

thing that occurs to me really is that

it's been 13 months since you defended

your titles in a fight that a lot of

people thought you would lose

you defended your titles against the

number one pound for pound boxer in the

sport

and a year later

people are still talking about that same

boxer and that same fight

I wonder after becoming

the fighter of the year

winning that fight

has your career or your opportunities

or even your situation in the sport

change dramatically other than just what

people are saying about you

yeah ever of course

many things changed around me people

look at me from different angles but I

try to be the same you know because

the person who was before Canela

here

that person made me made me and I have

to be

the same guy

I'm really

I'm really glad that I won that fight

and I got I won uh Ramirez and I got

this award it sounds to me like you're

talking about humility because people

are giving you a lot of accolades and

credit for winning the fight fans I

believe you would win a rematch but when

it comes to opportunities to make the

fights that you want to make and make

the kind of money that you want to make

has your lot in the boxing World

improved are you more able to make

better money and are you may be able to

make the fights you want to make easier

than 13 months ago ah of course I'm in

the different position now than I was

before before canala and I got more

attention if you get more attention you

could easier get a fight which you want

and uh

of course

we're talking about

different uh fights for me not that

before Canela and

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of course yeah now

if we're talking about quite it's better

term better

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everything is better yeah

so if you're in a better position and

you're getting better terms what's the

best fight for you not what Canelo wants

not what barbarum wants what do you want

and how close are you to being able to

get that

uh of course it's

the better for me the better for my team

the better for all offense it's the

fight for belts because if I get the

fight for belts and I win this fight

uh on the next fight I will

be on the best position

on the better better position you know

it brings me for better position

the better beer position or the better

you know

like which belts are we talking 68 in

canelo's belt so we're talking

Undisputed at 75. two options two

options for builds for me in my career

what what I see about my career how I

could make my legacy better

I need belts now I need fight for the

belts I want to fight for belts in 175

or in 168.

and then we will see

maybe I will move forward up you know of

course the way I don't know

but now

I don't wanna be on the same position

don't wanna give their match on the same

weight class

if I uh

if I get mobiles

it will be much more better for me

which belts are most important for you

right now if you could decide which

fight would it be canelo's belts or

better BF doesn't matter on on today it

doesn't matter which fight it's easier

to make I will choose this fight but uh

how I know

it couldn't be like choose this or this

both of them wanna fight you you just

should choose them yeah it couldn't be

like this man it's it's only on on the

dream on only on fairy tale you know

well that's pretty much the position

that Canelo is in until it came to you

most Fighters I would say pretty much

every fighter but you if Canelo came to

them and said

I'll fight you on his terms for the

money they would do it and you say that

the belts are most important to you so

for you why is the belts more important

than the biggest payday that you could

get

because

money you could spend it for a couple

months

uh

uh I'm not sure that uh

to be honest I have enough money to feel

myself confident comfortable to feel my

family comfortable of course

I want to earn much more money but it's

not like I need it I need I need my

legacy if I have my legacy then I could

earn money it's easier you know

you're talking about Legacy and the

ability to take care of your family

if you think about only money you could

you couldn't uh

it it it's not 100 that you will earn

your belt if you earn if you fight for

the bells get some belts the money will

come

off the boat or with the belt

the Legacy that you're talking about in

your white division would obviously be

better bieve and what stands in front of

you isn't really better BF himself like

Canelo not wanting to make the fights on

your terms but politics it seems World

politics not like like canelo's boxing

politics and better biev is global

politics

do you think that it is fair for even if

you are a Russian fighter or any Russian

fighter to be denied an opportunity to

fight for World titles because of what

the government is doing

of course it's not fair of course it's

not fair how you could say that I am the

champion of the world if somebody from

some country couldn't fight for your

belt but this guy could be better than

you

it's not fair

and this guy just training just spending

his

time in the gym

and he's not allowed to fight

he's the same like you he's just living

in a different uh

in different apartment in different

place but he's working the same like you

he's training he's fighting his mental

is similar like you

but why he's he's not allowed to fight

it's not fair

do you believe that better be ever wants

to fight you

I believe he wants

100 he wants but it's not depend on the

on his uh wishes it depends on wishes

Bob arum ESPN and Top Rank and

doesn't do you know and mushroom

I believe he wants to fight you I

believe you want to fight him sometimes

like you say there are so many people

involved that the two fighters can just

demand that they fight each other if

they get together is is a conversation

simply between you and better bieve

something that you would consider having

um

100 if we meet each other we will say

let's make a fight let's make a fight I

wanted this fight

I know he wants this fight and he want

he know that I'm I wanted this fight

and you know I remember I met zurudo

Maybe

three years ago in some boxing event and

we were talking with him let's make a

fight and he's like yeah I wanted this

fight let's make

only after

on the in the couple years we made this

fight

so assuming that he could be watching

this

would you invite a conversation like you

call him he calls you like right now say

I'd like to talk to better BF personally

and the two of us can make this fight

I think it doesn't help to our

to make it I think

who we should ask my manager who should

talk to each other to make this fight to

be honest

utilizing more and more right now

everybody is just to actually support

the idea of the fight happening we got

two boxers that wanted and all the

politics I think that's not important

the money is actually coming together

that's what's important

the money actually coming together is

the money coming together do you feel

yeah yes because there's a lot of

interest from the Middle East from uh

Abu Dhabi and from Saudi and they're

interested in this type of fight

happening which I think will help

materialize the fight in the near future

and last on this politics part it seems

like um Aram and others are excusing

better bieve from his relationship with

the government but holding you

accountable for your relationship with

the government of Russia do you think

that that is unfair

the person's not fair of course it's not

fair it's unfair

because

I don't want to say that oh let me let

me fight with their beef because

I'm not spend last time uh too much time

in Russia to be honest I didn't spend

more than four months last year in

Russia I spent my time and all of the

work but I don't wanna say this is the

reason why I wanna fight him no no the

reason is don't

don't mix politics and Sport don't mix

it

do you have a message for other athletes

and even people in business in your

country people from your family who are

just trying to make money and pursue

their profession who are being blocked

or denied the ability because again of

what the government is doing but not

something that they may personally

support

you know uh all my life I watched only

uh sports news

I love uh watching shows and everything

I didn't involved in some politics I

didn't want involved in the Corona virus

when it was you know I didn't give

someone uh I didn't give some to someone

any recommendation when the coronavirus

was in the world because I'm not the

doctor I'm not a politic now to say

about it I'm an athlete just revisiting

Canelo for a moment uh

him not wanting to fight you at 75 and

you demanding that the belts be on the

line it seems reasonable when there's a

rematch usually the loser of the first

fight has to make some concessions

do you feel that there is disrespect to

you and assuming that you would just

take the same terms and not be

advantaged in some way for having beat

him the first time is that in other

words is that a disrespectful way for

Canelo to come to the negotiation table

and say you get nothing new you get

nothing more just the privilege of

fighting me again

I think it's not uh

it's not disrespectful for me it just

some way for him to say that he didn't

agree this fight

you know it's some excuses for him it's

it's funny he just wanna find some

excuses for him of course nobody say

that I wanted the same uh turns on

rematch

and he just doesn't want it if he

wanna say I wanna the same uh

turns

well I understand your logic you think

he is negotiating himself intentionally

out of the fight yeah or I could say

that you know I I want to fight with the

Joshua and the next Fury but I want to

fight on the Mars

let's do it do you wanna I agree with to

fight with me in the Mars

right right they had two other fights

already like what what's the point of

the question why do you think he wants

to fight I understand your logic I have

two other fights already there's the

answer

and if we cannot make these two fights

materialize the ones that you clearly

want and would love to make

talking to Saudi talking to your options

what is your third best Prospect for

legacy for for money for competition you

know uh

uh it just could be fight

which could help me to be uh active

it's not that the best option it just

you know even if it's one of the best

guy from my weight class for me in my

mind it's just fight for waiting my

chance

you want to stay busy while you make the

big fights that you are trying to chase

well I appreciate the time I hope that

one of these two fights is next but if

not it's a pleasure to watch you work in

the ring always we see your tenacity we

see her drive anybody in there with you

it should be an honor to fight you and

it's an honor to talk to you as always

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