Artur Beterbiev vs Callum Smith Prediction: The Russian boxer will be calm

Prediction for the WBC, WBO, IBF Titles Bout Artur Beterbiev vs Callum Smith fight which will take place on January 14th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Artur Beterbiev became the IBF champion in 2017, and since then, he has only added to his collection of belts. Now he has exactly three of them, and Dmitry Bivol has the fourth, which is interesting. The public has long been demanding a confrontation for the absolute title of two Russian boxers with different styles, and according to rumors, the teams have already agreed on everything.

Arthur won his last fight against Anthony Yarde by technical knockout.

Beterbiev's primary weapon is a challenging and accentuated punch, for which he does all the work in the ring. He will press again, wait for a mistake, and provoke it. The last fight was the most difficult, but the tactics still worked.

Callum Smith was also a champion. His only loss was to Saul Alvarez, and in his last fight, he knocked out Mathieu Bauderlique. Smith lost to Alvarez because he frankly gave up before the hard shots, and Beterbiev hits even harder. Callum is unlikely to repeat the mistakes of that fight, but he will still have to take punishment. Finishing the opponent will not be possible, and the Briton does not need to rely on that - his task is to win the most rounds and never miss a knockout. The mission is almost impossible.

Two ways to defeat Beterbiev are to knock him out (which looks fantastic) or score points from a distance, avoiding open combat. The first method can be tried only by reckless suicides. The second has been tried by many, but it all ended in the same deplorable way - sooner or later, Arthur caught up with everyone.

The Russian boxer will be calm. He will try to deprive his opponent of mobility with his counterpunches, making him uncomfortable with pressure and thus threatening him with a punch. But he will get down to business and roll up his sleeves when physically and psychologically exhausted. It will likely happen in the championship rounds.