MOSCOW, Aug 19, Oleg Bogatov. The recovery process after leg surgery is underway in normal mode, by the beginning of next year I will be ready to enter the ring again, said the world light heavyweight champion according to the World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) Russian Artur Beterbiev. On Friday, the portal Boxing Scene reported that the match for the WBO world title between Beterbiev and Englishman Anthony Yarde was postponed to early 2023 due to an injury to the Russian. The fight was originally scheduled for October 29th. Beterbiev defeated American Joe Smith Jr. in June of this year by technical knockout. The athlete retained the WBC and IBF championship belts, and also took away the WBO champion title from the American. In the professional ring, Beterbiev won 18 victories (all by knockout) in 18 fights. «In mid-July, in Moscow, I had surgery on my injured leg, on the meniscus,» Beterbiev said. «Now I'm going through the recovery process, everything is going fine. I think that By January, I will be able to fully rehabilitate and prepare well for the fight, if the fight is scheduled for the beginning of next year.»
