Dmitry Bivol’s administration will file an official protest over his 12-round majority choice loss to Artur Beterbiev final Saturday night time. The previous WBA gentle heavyweight champion Bivol’s supervisor, Vadim Kornilov, plans to protest the 116-112 rating from one of many judges, despite the fact that many followers additionally had that rating.
Group Bivol selecting to muddy the water received’t change the battle’s final result. Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) was the higher man, the aggressor within the second half of the battle, landed the higher photographs, and had Bivol on the run through the championship rounds.
When the battle was at stake in rounds 9 via 12, Bivol was on his bike, attempting to flee the strain from Beterbiev. The choose that scored the battle 116-112 clearly famous that Beterbiev was in management through the essential final essential championship rounds.
“We’re going to file a protest on Monday. I believe the choose has to at the least have some type of duty for what he did,” mentioned Bivol’s supervisor, Vadim Kornilov, to BoxNation.
The explanation Bivol misplaced wasn’t due to the choose, who had it 8-4 for Beterbiev. He didn’t battle laborious as soon as he felt Beterbiev’s energy within the seventh and was on the retreat from that spherical on. No matter battle that Bivol had in him was taken out after he was hit with a storm of photographs within the seventh. You can see it. Turning the hold forth from the DAZN commentary crew helped.
Beterbiev unloading bombs on Bivol, and after that seventh spherical, it was one-sided in Artur’s favor. Bivol is a kind of fighters who loses his braveness after getting hit laborious and doesn’t need to take any extra dangers. We noticed that in his fights towards Canelo Alvarez, Joe Smith, and Lyndon Arthur. When Bivol will get buzzed, he alters his model and goes into safety-first mode.
“Bivol managed the battle. Hear, he bought buzzed within the battle. He buzzed Artur Beterbiev,” mentioned Eddie Hearn to BoxNation, grumbling about his fighter, Dmitry Bivol’s loss to Artur Beterbiev final Saturday night time.
“That was a lifetime’s of labor the place he ought to have been strolling out of the ring because the undisputed world champion. His Excellency [Turki Alalshikh] mentioned, ‘Mistaken choice, I’ll do a rematch.’ We must always have had an undisputed champion in there.”
Hearn could stay to remorse steering Bivol right into a rematch with Beterbiev as a result of he’s prone to get knocked out within the second battle. As soon as Bivol loses the rematch, his worth to Hearn and his Matchroom firm can be nugatory. Hearn could be higher off campaigning for the Bivol and Canelo Alvarez rematch. That’s the one which he needs to be specializing in. If Hearn can persuade Turki to assist him persuade Canelo to battle Bivol once more, there’s some huge cash to make within the second battle. That’s what I wouldn’t do.
A blind man might see that Beterbiev had discovered Bivol and would destroy him within the rematch. Beterbiev has discovered Bivol’s sport and can break him with strain the second time round.
