When he still really hasn't fought any top competition in like 4 years. At least he is back and hopefully on his way to fighting top competition so we can find out if this once amateur phenom is a pro phenom.
Annoyingly in espn article Beteribiev says
http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/2 ... d-champion
The reason it is annoying is he is saying he would rather be fighting the pound for pound best fighter right now but instead is fighting a guy a million miles from there, and it seems like is putting himself on Wards level or with zero resume, or almost as if Ward is running from him.Beterbiev would have preferred to fight Ward for the title but Koelling is who it will be and he is fine with that.
"Ward's a very smart fighter," he said. "I respect his decision [to retire] and I wish him good luck. Whoever I fight I'm ready for a world title. I want to win this belt and then I want to fight whoever is the best in my division."

