Benavidez vs Bivol

He was hurt several times by Morrell, and dropped with a left hook by Gavril. Also Peter Berg is a credible source and he says Bivol dropped him hard in sparring.

 

It doesn't matter whatsoever. Bivol still dismantles him with ease. It's not a hard match to predict an outcome in. Beterbiev and Benavidez are not on the same level.

 

Agree wholeheartedly, if the DB in question is Dmitry Bivol.

 

How much did Benavidez weigh during these sparring sessions? We know he weighs way more than Bivol now (about 13lbs) even though it's only his second fight at 175 and Bivol is a career 175. He weighed 196 for his second fight at 175 and that's also the second highest fight night weight for a LHW I've ever heard of and by like 2-3lbs. But the other day Benavidez said he ''thinks'' that's the heaviest he's ever weighed in a fight and we know he weighed 189 for Gvozdyk so unless he's lying about how much he weighed for Gvozdyk that means he's come in close to 196 when he was down at SMW which is insane.

Career LHW Kovalev has come in as low as 181 and his heaviest recorded fight night weight is 189 and that was only once IIRC. His average fight night weight is probably 185. Bivol's fight night weights range from 180-184. Beterbiev walks around at 191 according to his assistant trainer Iceman Scully and I suspect he comes in under 190. It might be close or very close to 190 but nowhere near 196. These are just three recent career LHWs and Benavidez is way bigger than them all despite only just having moved up to LHW

But what we do know is that massive SMW Benavidez has been put down in a fight by Gavril at SMW and Bivol has never been dropped despite constantly fighting bigger, much bigger or way bigger opponents than him at LHW and fighting better opposition than Benavidez and that includes going the distance x 2 and beating arguably the hardest puncher in boxing in Beterbiev and certainly the most heavy handed P4P.

 

Brother Olu. Smith beat Buatsi because, contrary to what you believe, he is the better fighter. I know Buatsi is your guy but that's the whole reason why Smith won the other day. Because he's the better fighter. He has better skills.