Benavidez vs Gvozdyk - Fixed?

Agreed

 

I think it's a 3 part answer: part of it was that he was in fact affected by Beterbiev and he's older. The 3rd part is that he was conserving energy to try to make a late push (and I did have him winning the last 5 rounds in a row). Too little too late though.

He throws little shots to open up for the big ones.................the big ones never came though. That is how you can tell he's a bit "off". David didn't look great at LHW. Especially not how the announcers were acting..............These guys are his size and he won't be able to run them over.

 

This.

The inability to consistently pull the trigger is one of the absolute hallmarks of a shot/spent fighter.

The Gvodzyk that showed up Saturday night was quite clearly a poor facsimile of the one who fought Beterbiev on more or less even terms (and in fact was ahead on 2 of 3 cards) for ten rounds.

 

Him mentioning Benavidez dropped him/caused problems in sparring years earlier during an interview before the match already spoke volumes about how this **** would have gone lmao

 

all sports are rigged. usually through officiating and judging, but occasionally the athletes throw games/fights too.

 

Hello Midnight Prowler.

 

Handshake agreement

No KO

Gvozdyk keeps his dignity and gets a few more paydays by solidifying himself as a Top 10 LHW / gatekeeper

Benavidez gets to say he beat a former LHW champion who put someone in a coma and validates his ranking

 

Warrior boxers strike again, it seems.

 

The fight had shades of Kovalev Canelo, where Kova was also content just to tap at his guard with gentle 2-3-punch combos. At the time I was utterly baffled by Kovalev's lack of ferocity and thought it looked dodgy, but maybe for some fighters that's just what being over the hill manifests as. Dunno, but the optics on it are unusual and a little sus.

 

Have you seen Gvozdyk's sparring sessions before? He takes it extremely light in sparring, pitty pattying everything. He's not a hard sparrer and this was before he got with Atlas and before he won a title iirc. Benavidez was 19 or so from what I've heard and looking to make a name for himself and his team are trying to build his confidence, so they put him in with a respected amateur champ and upcoming LHW who always spars easy to build him up a bit. I don't tend to read into sparring stories too much, there are a lot of different factors and a lot of tall tales that come with them. This is an example of how light Gvozdyk tends to spar:

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