Honest assessment of Whyte's performance tonight

C+ and that’s no shade he doesn’t understand what keeping composure is

 

That's a very good assessment imo,been saying for a while now his jab is very prolific..

 

Good assessment - wasn't a heavy KD though

 

Rivas would have stopped him without the closed eye.

 

Rivas was a bit exposed tonight as a limited fighter. Pretty disapointed in him was hoping for much more..

His plan A didn't but he didn't have a plan B.

Whyte put on a pretty good performance against some one I though was going to give him a much better run that he did.

Lucky for Rivas those steroid infused traps keep his chin nice and stable taking shot after shot....

 

Nah, Rivas wasn't exposed. He fought exactly like he did with Jennings. Difference was that Jennings was much more cautious after he feeled power of Rivas so Rivas won more rounds. Rivas biggest problem today was inactivity and bad jugement of distance. Whyte jab was very busy in mid rounds and won him severl of those rounds quite comfortably although not many punches landed clean. I had it 5-1 after 6 and it was mostly due to jab and activity, not really because Whyte landed hard shots or many more punches. Rivas stepped it up after 6-7 rounds i think, did much better, more pressure, and the knockdown didn't come out of nowhere imo but Rivas left eye was very, very bad, nearly close after 11 i think. Without thtat i think Rivas would have put on a very explosive and strong finish. Whyte won and deserves the UD here but Rivas wasn't exposed imo. Wasn't impressed by Whyte though. Rivas without that damaged eye probably stops Whyte after the kd.

 

I think his balance is his biggest flaw but that's really hard to evolve. But nearly all his flaws seem to link to a lack of athleticism, and as a consequence, a lack of balance too, in defense and attack. He works around the problem pretty effectively but it makes him look uncoordinated. He's better than the eye test suggests.....

 

Whyte has a good chin and took some bombs very well, same for Rivas. The main problem with Rivas from R2 till R6/7 was that he was coming forward but not throwing a lot, i think the height advantage of Whyte took its toll there as Rivas was cautious with letting his hands go because of Whyte landing first to the punch before (he rocked him solidly in R2). Rivas fought very well in the opening round and had much better judgement of distance there, also controlled Whyte with his footwork. Whyte figured it out between R2 and R3. R2 was close but Whyte edged it with the bombs he landed rocking Rivas there, there wasn't much between them apart from that. But from R3 Whyte just threw the jab constantly and edged those rounds without any big punches landed. I think it was a close fight but Whyte won rightfully. He was just a bit smarter in the mid rounds and edged those 3-4 rounds which were between them in the end.

btw: Yeah, the ref was disgusting in the last round. He probably expected same aggressive approach by Rivas like in Jennings fight and already took some time out for Whyte with controlling the ****ing shorts of both fighters, really, really disgusting. Same for the two or three warnings for using his head, lmao, it was the last round of the fight and Rivas didn't do anything wrong with his head, acting like that was the typical UK bias and UK home crook factor as you always have. Don't think Rivas had anything left to take Whyte out though. Whyte has classy survival skills. But still, disgusting piece of **** acting by the ref.

 

Wilder vs White. Why not?

 

Honestly IMO, if he showed up in this terrible shape to fight a legit top 10 contender he'd get taken to the cleaners. Credit to him for getting up from that knockdown and generally outboxing Rivas but his lack of conditioning was showing.