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Here is the situation on Sunday, February 23 – a day before the war’s third anniversary:
The judges scored Sunday’s fight in Riyadh 114-114, 116-112 and 115-113.
The previous encounter last October, when both went toe-to-toe as unbeaten champions, ended with exactly the same score but to Russian-born Canadian Beterbiev who added the WBA belt to his WBC, WBO and IBF ones.
This time, Bivol, 34, was better on the night, moving up a gear and taking the fight to his bearded older opponent, now 40, with determination and classy combinations.
The outcome of a 1-1 draw sets up a foreshadowing third conflict between the two.
“Actually, I didn’t want the second fight, it wasn’t my choice, but no problem. We’re going to do a third fight”, Beterbiev, who did not shake Bivol’s hand, said in the ring after the scores were announced.
Bivol claimed that despite his exertions, he needed a break.
The Russian, who ended the fight by streaming blood from his left eye, said, “I want to heal a little bit and come back.”
“I didn’t have as much pressure like last time. I only wanted to work until the 12th round was over. I succeeded in doing this.
” I was better, I was pushing myself more, I was more confident, I was lighter and I just wanted to win so much today. “
The champion found his rhythm in the fourth round, which was a more intense fight than the first, but with little to separate the two.
No boxer could predict the outcome until the final bell, both anticipating the reading of the scores without anticipating anything.
” I don’t want to talk about the decision – it’s tough. Congratulations to Bivol’s team, “said Beterbiev, who could claim the final round.
” I thought this fight was better than the first fight, but we’ll see. Now is my time to come back. “
Earlier, three-times world champion Shakur Stevenson retained his WBC lightweight title after stopping stand-in Josh Padley, a British electrician who had three days to prepare for the fight, at the end of nine rounds.
In their WBO Interim bout, Joseph Parker, the former world heavyweight champion, stopped Martin Bakole in two rounds.
On the eve of crucial snap elections, where conservatives are the front-runners and the far right is expected to win, German politicians made their final appeals to voters on Saturday.
In the face of a tense US administration, election frontrunner Friedrich Merz of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday promised to revive Europe’s largest economy and defend its interests.
Merz said, “With me, Germany will have a strong voice in the European Union again”.
He remarked to a cheery crowd in Munich, “Europe must be a player and not maybe to get a seat at a side table.”
“No, we must sit at the main table, and we must safeguard our interests against Russia, against China, and if necessary also with respect to America”.
“Europe must be a player and not ask maybe to get a seat at a side table”, he said, adding, “No, we must sit at the main table”.
However, he said, “We will only gain respect in this European Union again if we finally overcome our country’s economic weakness”. Which he added was “overwhelmingly homemade”.
The CDU party currently holds 30% of the vote in favor.
The US president’s call to action on the Ukraine war comes at a pivotal moment for both Europe as a whole and its largest economy, in particular as a result of Donald Trump’s reaching out to Russia to end a divided Western position.
Germany’s economy has been struggling for the past two years, and it is facing bitter social unrest over immigration and security, so Trump’s threats of a trade war are in for more trouble.
Sunday’s vote is being held more than half a year ahead of schedule after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition between his Social Democrats, the Greens and the pro-business FDP collapsed in early November.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has been polling in second place at about 20%, is expected to win in the election, which is expected to turn in a historic way. This is fueled by anger over a string of deadly knife attacks and car rammings that have been attributed to immigrants.
A 30-year-old Spanish man was wounded in a stabbing incident at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial on Friday. Just 10 days before the election, an Afghan man was arrested for driving a car through a street rally in Munich, killing two people.
Elon Musk, a tech billionaire, and JD Vance, a vice president, have spoken out in support of the AfD, which has received a lot of support from Trump’s inner circle.
Halting the rise of the AfD was a “central task” of the election, Scholz told constituents in Potsdam.
At the campaign event, Scholz reaffirmed that “the answer to this must be to ensure that our country is still as advanced in 10, 20, and 30 years as we are today.”
The incumbent in the chancellor’s office stressed his support for Ukraine and called for more spending to boost Germany’s defences.
“We have not left Ukraine alone, that should not and must not happen in the future”, said Scholz, whose three years in office have largely been defined by Russia’s invasion.
Pope Francis’s health has deteriorated over the past 24 four hours, the Vatican said, adding that the pontiff had suffered a “prolonged asthma-like respiratory crisis” and needed blood transfusions.
The Vatican said on Saturday that Pope Francis “presented a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis” that required the use of high-flow oxygen.
“The Holy Father remains alert and has spent the day in a chair, though he is more unwell than yesterday”, it added.
After having a few days of trouble breathing, Francis was taken to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on February 14. Since then, he has been given a double pneumonia diagnosis.
His doctors told a news conference on Friday that he was “not out of danger” but that there was no immediate risk of his death.
But on Saturday, the Vatican said that “the Holy Father’s condition remains critical” and added , that doctors had to administer a “high flow” of oxygen because of his breathing crisis. Additionally, it claimed that because tests revealed he had a low platelet count, which is common with anaemia, he needed blood transfusions.
A serious condition that can make it difficult to breathe can cause inflamation and scarring both lungs.
Francis has continued to work during his hospital stay, including making bishop appointments.
The pope will not be performing in public on Sunday, according to the Vatican, which came earlier on Saturday. This is his second consecutive week missing the event.
Canon law does not make any recommendations for what to do if a pope becomes incapacitated.