163 views Artur Beterbiev - The Chechen Beast Artur Beterbiev - The Chechen Beast Highlights of the hard punching current unified Light-Heavyweight world champion. Artur Beterbiev - Is a Russian professional boxer. He is a unified world champion having held the IBF light-heavyweight title since 2017 and the WBC light heavyweight title since 2019. As of October 2019, he is ranked as the world's best active light-heavyweight by The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and third by BoxRec. As an amateur, Beterbiev won a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships, gold at the 2009 World Championships, as well as gold at the 2006 and 2010 European Championships, all in the light-heavyweight division. He also reached the quarter-finals of the heavyweight bracket at the 2012 Olympics.