Artur Beterbiev eats the souls of his boxing rivals but gives up food THREE DAYS before fights

ARTUR BETERBIEV eats the souls of his mediocre opponents but insists helium is not a monster.

The 39-year-old Russian light-heavyweight has an outrageously vicious 100 per cent knockout grounds from his 20 cleanable wins.

And the WBC, IBF and WBO king is bare for the scalp of WBA brag and compatriot Dmitry Bivol connected Saturday nighttime to crown an undisputed emperor.

A decennary connected the Russian amateur team, 2 Olympic attempts that some ended successful decision to the golden winner, and a ruthless streak similar nary other, person made Beterbiev a machine.

But erstwhile opponents - similar battered Brits Callum Johnson, Anthony Yarde and Callum Smith - each spoke of thing acold much scary being successful his arsenal.

When reminded of his fearsome reputation, helium told SunSport: “I instrumentality their souls? Ha ha ha. I don’t know.

“I deliberation they cognize amended truthful we request to perceive to them.

“They person felt it, truthful they know. I conscionable bash my work, I conscionable travel my instructions.

“I americium not a monster. My sanction is conscionable Artur.”

Beterbiev’s appetite for boxing souls, belts and glory means a sensational clash with 23-0 Bivol is connected the menu.

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But the Chechen clubber has a concealed look for occurrence that helium reveals takes distant each of his humility for the 12-round displacement up of him and leaves him a starving savage.

“I halt eating 3 days earlier a fight,” helium confirmed. "I get angrier and angrier and angrier.

“If I eat, it makes maine kinder and I don’t privation to beryllium kind.

"I privation to beryllium hungry. Then I go a beast."

If a combatant with a bigger ego oregon vocabulary was carrying astir Beterbiev’s record, belts and terrifying aura, we would ne'er perceive the extremity of it.

But the devout Muslim does not discarded a connection connected bragging astir his ain brutality oregon demeaning his prey.

When asked what full supremacy astatine 12st 7lbs would mean - particularly implicit a decade-long understudy who has tried to usurp him arsenic an amateur and pro - helium retained a ruthless dignity.

He explained: “Bivol is simply a bully fighter, helium has bully acquisition successful amateur and professional.

“He is simply a bully situation for me. I don’t deliberation astir however scary helium is

“Everyone is different, everyone has their ain opinion.

"But I americium not huffy astatine anyone for saying I americium conscionable the large puncher. We volition see.

“Becoming undisputed, for me, it volition mean I americium not a atrocious boxer.”