Bivol beats every light heavyweight known to man past and present. Only man who can challenge him is Tyson Fury.
Michael Spinks he's too versatile and tricky for Bivol, your talking about a top 5 Light Heavyweight of all time who beat the likes of Yaqui Lopez, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Marvin Johnson, who are some of the most dangerous and recognizable names in Light Heavyweight history.
It would be a great technical fight until,,Spinks lands his right hand which is one of the best in light heavyweight history. It'd be hard for Bivol to go 15 with a prime Spinks.
He would have issues with Bob Foster. BF 6ft 3in with a 79 in reach. Bivol 6ft with 72 in reach. Bob was fast, powerful and had a decent jab.
Spinks wins this fight hands down. Until Ward low blowed and fouled his way through light heavy... Michael Spinks was the only undefeated light heavyweight champion in boxing history. Something that can't be said about Tommy Loughran, John Henry Lewis, Billy Conn, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, or Roy Jones. In 101 years of crowning light heavyweight champion's, only one of them never tasted defeat while weighing 175 pounds, Michael Spinks. Spinks was also the first reigning light heavyweight champion to challenge and defeat the reigning heavyweight champion. Larry Holmes no less. Something past greats Billy Conn, Archie Moore, and Bob Foster all failed to do. Spinks the fighter was complete and could do it all. At 6' 2" Spinks was one of the biggest light heavyweight Champions in history. His fighting style is best described as being a boxer-puncher. He was a tremendous two handed puncher who could box and dictate with his jab and knew how to utilize his height and reach versus taller and shorter opponents. As he was forced to do in his Light Heavyweight unification bout with 5' 7" WBC Champ Dwight Muhammad Qawi, and against the 6' 6" hard hitting Gerry Cooney. His legacy was heavily tarnished by the one loss on his record: Mike Tyson. History should show that he was never off his feet prior and it took one of boxing’s hardest, fastest hitters ever to accomplish that knockdown and stoppage. However Tyson was his last fight because Spinks knees were shot, you can see a knee brace being worn for the Cooney fight. In the last 16 fights of his career were all title fights in which he went 15-1, 11-0 at light heavyweight and 4-1 at heavyweight.
Spinks wins, bigger, more power, can match Bivol’s hand speed, 15rd stamina, and WAY better resume. They’re not even comparable right now and I love Bivol.
This would be highly competitive imo. But yeah I can't see Bivol winning. If Bivol straight up dominates Opetaia then possibly
As high as I rate Bivol, Spinks is top 3ATG @175 and would be very hard to pick against him. I might re-evaluate after seeing how Bivol fares with Beterbiev, but for now I'd take Spinks, especially over 15.
I’m still not sold on Bivol at all tbh,really looking forward to the Beterbiev fight and then we will know a lot more about Bivol .
