Russian professional boxer Dmitry Yuryevich Bivol, born on December 18, 1990, has held the WBA light heavyweight championship since that time.
At the 2013 World Combat Games, he earned the gold medal for amateurs in the 81 kg weight division.
In terms of pound-for-pound performance, Bivol is ranked third in the world by BoxRec, fifth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB), sixth by The Ring, and seventh by the Boxing Writers Association of America and ESPN as of November 2022. Moreover, he is ranked second by TBRB and first by The Ring, ESPN, and BoxRec as the finest light heavyweight.
While Dmitry Bivol’s mother is of Korean descent and was born in Kazakhstan, his father was born in Soviet Moldova.
After Dmitry’s parents were married and graduated, they relocated to Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
Dmitry was born and reared in Kyrgyzstan before relocating to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
At the age of six, Dmitry Bivol began boxing in Tokmak, Kyrgyzstan. Bivol was a naturally larger child and weighed more than the typical youngster his age.
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