Career
As an amateur he competed at light heavyweight and heavyweight, winning a silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, gold at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships, as well as gold at the 2006 and 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships. Beterbiev is from Dagestan of Chechen descent, but currently fights out of his adopted home town of Montreal, Canada. Eventually beating Evgeny Makarenko in finals to qualify for the World championships.
In the finals of the World Championship he faced little-known Uzbek southpaw Abbos Atoev but lost in an upset.
In Milan he beat young Cuban Jose Larduet and Uzbek Elshod Rasulov for the 2009 world championship title. Heavyweight 201lbs/91kg
At the Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men"s heavyweight he edged out Michael Hunter but lost again by 13:17 to Usyk.
Beterbiyev vs Cloud
After a tentative opening minute from both fighters, Beterbiyev opened up and began landing powerful shots that visibly rocked Cloud. In the final minute, the Russian would drop his opponent three times via devastating and concussive combinations.
This was the first time Cloud had ever been dropped in his professional career.
Beterbiyev would close the show in round two, landing multiple hard shots to the head that dropped Cloud, this time for the ten count. Beterbiyev vs Campillo
Both men began the bout cautiously, although Beterbiyev dropped Campillo late in the first round. The Russian slowly wore down his foe with multiple straight rights to the body.
Finally in the fourth, Beterbiyev would land a straight/uppercut hybrid that would hit Campillo square on the chin, and followed it up with a perfunctory left hook before walking to his corner while his opponent slid to the canvas, barely conscious.
The Parenting Stress Index detector in his gloves stated that the first punch landed with 973 lbs of force. Beterbiyev vs Johnson
Beterbiyev made his record a perfect 9-for-9 with nine knockouts as Alexander Johnson became his latest victim on June 12, 2015 at the International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) Pavilion in Chicago.
Using a vicious overhand right, Beterbiyev knocked Johnson down twice in the fifth and a third time in the seventh before getting him for good at 1:38 of the round, clobbering him with a left hook and finishing him off with a booming overhand right that put Johnson through the ropes down and out.