Dmitrii Yurievich Bivol vs. Artur Asilbekovich Beterbiev & Jai Opetaia vs. Jack Massey RBR.

It is, it's boxing. That and clean hitting and effective punching. They were practically even in punches landed and Bivol overwhelmingly in effective punches landed. So it was close and you can stop with the AB clearly won without doubt crap. I had it Bivol, a draw is fine. And it's a what you like fight.

 

Aggression and punishment delivered matters in pro boxing. Its not the amateurs.

Bivol landed some bombs on AB and AB didn't even stop. Just walked right through it.

 

Which gave him rnd 11 when Bivol didnt punch him.

 

Scored it 115 - 113 Beterbiev and i wanted Bivol to win,so no bias here

 

He did not land more clean punches, you'd have a hard time making a 1 minute compilation of all the exchanges that Beterbiev wins against Bivol, I don't think there's a single one up to round 10 and all the work that Beterbiev is throwing is largely nullified by brilliant movement and a stellar guard from Bivol.

The rounds AB wins before round 10 are rounds where Bivol spends all the time in his bike and doesn't choose to trade, every other round where Bivol is standing his ground he banked them man

 

So you want to give rounds to a guy who ran away? Good analysis man.

 

Ran away? He was blowing the head off Artur during those rounds, gave him proper concussions in this fight, I guarantee you that Artur left this fight twice as concussed as Bivol from all the shots he was eating.

You just don't know the difference between a clean punch and a blocked punch

 

Maybe mate. Both of them be still juicing then too

 

All 3 judges scores the last 3 rounds to Beterbiev, rightly so. I seen some crazy scoring on this thread where some people had given some of these rounds to Bivol. How he did nothing in those rounds? Had it 6-6 myself but can see how judges scored it for AB.

 

Disagree with the result and sure as hell disagree with the score card of judge Pawel Kardyni, however the result stands whether we like it or not.

The glory goes to Beterbiev, he holds all the trinkets now.

Rematch please, with fair judging.

 

Bivol lost for the same reason Marquez kept losing to Pac. And for the same reason Loma lost to López. In a close competitive fight like this the optics matter. Beterbiev looked like a bad mother****er last night. That leaves big mental impressions on judges. When you walk through your opponents best shots and eat it like a pop tart that leaves a lasting impression on judges. AB showed who was boss in there.

 

Would have been better if Kadyrov wasn't grandstanding himself in there

Against Saudi wishes it seemed

 

Marquez got dropped 4 times in 2 fights vs Pacquiao which didn't help his cause and made a huge difference in the scoring of a close fight.

Pacquiao and Marquez was also much more of a war where as Beterbiev vs Bivol was a tactical fight that didn't quite catch fire to me.

I thought it was a draw but until the last 3 rounds for me Beterbiev wasn't as assertive nor was his punches as effective as I'm used to seeing.

 

In retrospect, last night's fight had a lot in common with Trinidad - De La Hoya. Huge build up, massive potential for fireworks, but, in the end turned out to be a somewhat underwhelming fight with a scorecard that was arguably controversial.