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Both Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev insist this fight is nothing personal. They have composed themselves with steely calm throughout the final week leading up to their fight.<\/p>\n

Personal or not, this fight is everything. Boxing for undisputed glory, for all four major light-heavyweight world titles this Saturday, live on Sky Sports Box Office<\/em>, is the summit of their professional lives.<\/p>\n

This is the moment they have worked towards all their careers, with the intensity heightened a further notch by the fact that they have known each other for years.<\/p>\n

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Both men were on the same Russian national amateur squad, with Beterbiev a formidable heavyweight and the younger Bivol coming on as a middleweight.<\/p>\n

Bivol was not the first choice at 75kg, while Beterbiev was a World Championship gold medallist and an Olympian.<\/p>\n

But whether Beterbiev has always felt that he is the bigger, stronger fighter, he would not say.<\/p>\n

“We knew each other but we didn’t talk,” he said of his past with Bivol. “We did some sparring but it wasn’t real sparring.<\/p>\n

“I had targets [then]. I have only in my mind my next opponent,” he told Sky Sports <\/em>ahead of Saturday’s Riyadh Season event.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t mean I don’t care about the rest of them. But now I have one opponent and that’s it. At that time too, I had many guys there.”<\/p>\n

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Bivol is adamant too that he can’t let the personal element affect him. It’s the job he needs to do.<\/p>\n

“I consider him an opponent with the belts. It doesn’t matter that he’s Beterbiev, or somebody else,” the WBA titlist told Sky Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“It’s just the guy. Four belts for me is another [thing]. And of course I will do everything and I hope I will win.<\/p>\n

“Of course I will enjoy winning those four belts, not just [beating] him. Him as a fighter, with an 100 per cent KO [ratio], a good fighter. But not anything personal.”<\/p>\n

However in his early amateur days he couldn’t help but look up to the leading boxers.<\/p>\n

“He was No 1 and at that time I think I was a junior. Maybe I was watching the national competition and he was fighting there,” Bivol said.<\/p>\n

“Because all the guys, Juniors, Cadets, we were watching because we were coming soon there.<\/p>\n

“At that time of course I couldn’t imagine [that we’d fight], I couldn’t imagine that I would fight for four belts, undisputed.”<\/p>\n

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Winning this though means, quite simply, the world. “I could prove myself that I’m the best,” Bivol said.<\/p>\n

No opponent has beaten Beterbiev, none of them have even managed to go the distance with him.<\/p>\n

Beterbiev, the unified WBC, WBO and IBF champion, hopes to keep that knockout run going. “We’ll see,” he said with a knowing smile.<\/p>\n

Bivol reflected: “Always when I’m going to the ring I’m trying to think that this is the most dangerous opponent in my career, and he is really like this.<\/p>\n

“He’s really dangerous and it makes me more excited to be honest.<\/p>\n

“Your level, your enemies, the level of your challenges, shows your level also.<\/p>\n

“We will see,” he said echoing his great rival.<\/p>\n

“October 12, it will be my show.”<\/p>\n

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Both Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev insist this fight is nothing personal. They have composed themselves with steely calm throughout the final