Dmitry Bivol has a great opportunity to move to a new level in his career next Saturday with his bout against Saul Alvarez in defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Light Heavyweight Championship.

The casual boxing public has had great importance in this story of boxing, mostly because it gives another dimension to certain fights, which are the ones that feature the world’s great boxing stars. 

Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, among other names, are some of the figures that have gained worldwide attention in recent decades of boxing. Currently, “Canelo” occupies that position as the most mediatic fighter and his fights usually put the eyes of the world on him. 

While Bivol is well known to those who follow boxing, some of that casual audience still doesn’t know who the champion of the pioneering body is, so his bout this week will be very important.

Bivol’s career has been exceptional and has been tied to the WBA since 2015, when he won his first regional championship.  Since then he has followed a path of success that led him to be world black and gold champion with great victories and making his talent clear, which made Alvarez want to challenge him in the best moment of his career. 

To achieve greatness it is not only necessary to beat the best, but to do it in front of everyone’s eyes and that is the opportunity that Bivol is facing this Saturday at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. 

Those who know him know what he has achieved but now he must overcome this challenge and those who do not know him could have a huge first impression of Bivol if he manages to beat Canelo in this fight. The opportunity is there and if he succeeds, his career will take another dimension and will transcend in a superior way to what he has already done.