Peter Berg says Bivol dropped Benavidez during sparring at Churchill Boxing

Because a film director is a credible boxing source.

 

Bivol UD

 

It´s sparring, things happen. I have boxed circles around better boxers, simply because they were trying out something different. I have myself been caught lacking because it´s sparring, and we usually don´t give it a 100%.

 

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This is the fairest reply here.

That said, I think people have been sleeping on Bivol's power for a long time. When he sets his feet and lets loose, he hits pretty hard.

 

It means nothing.

 

A merlot brougham

 

I literally came here to say that Peter Berg is one of those celebs that's fairly deep into boxing culture, beat me to it

 

Sparring doesn’t matter much. I used to be really high on Olekandr Teslenko on here because I saw him brutally KO a few sparring partners in the gym and give Simon Kean a beating who was our country’s best HW for a few years. Yet his pro career never amounted to anything.

 

Nail on the head. There are many things going on during sparring. As you mentioned, a guy trying on something new. Sometimes guys get in there after training, or fresh sparring partners rotate in, so you have a fresh body in against the guy who has gone 8-9 rounds. That's why, without proper context, it's impossible to use a sparring secession as a gauge to pick who would win in a real match.

 

He already went on media to say this was as it was in fact Benavidez that dropped Bivol with a jab:

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Only time I ever got knocked down that couldn’t be blamed on balance was sparring against a guy with way less experience than myself and I was being lackadaisical. I still remember getting my lights turned off for a millisecond then seeing my arms stretched out in front of me as I crashed onto my back actively thinking: “I can’t believe this MFer of all people just knocked me down for the first time.”

I can imagine it’s happened to far more talented and experienced fighters than myself.

Good post bro.. sparring legitimately means almost nothing. An example of when I think it means something is when it comes to true gifted power punchers… I think when a guy knows a guy can REALLY crack, it has a more lasting psychological impact on them…

For evidence of this, note the way Shakur and Haney talk about ANY potential opponent with extreme confidence - compared to how they speak in a more measured way when Tanks name is brought up…

Tanks got to them before - I’ve thought this for years, hearing them talk, it was funny to hear Tank say more or less the same thing in an interview the other day.