Dmitry Bivol’s administration will file an official protest over his 12-round majority choice loss to Artur Beterbiev final Saturday night time. The previous WBA gentle heavyweight champion Bivol’s supervisor, Vadim Kornilov, plans to protest the 116-112 rating from one of many judges, although many followers additionally had that rating.
Group Bivol selecting to muddy the water gained’t change the battle’s end result. Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) was the higher man, the aggressor within the second half of the battle, landed the higher photographs, and had Bivol on the run in the course of the championship rounds.
When the battle was at stake in rounds 9 by way of 12, Bivol was on his bike, attempting to flee the stress from Beterbiev. The decide that scored the battle 116-112 clearly famous that Beterbiev was in management in the course of the essential final essential championship rounds.
“We’re going to file a protest on Monday. I believe the decide has to no less than have some type of duty for what he did,” mentioned Bivol’s supervisor, Vadim Kornilov, to BoxNation.
The explanation Bivol misplaced wasn’t due to the decide, who had it 8-4 for Beterbiev. He didn’t battle arduous as soon as he felt Beterbiev’s energy within the seventh and was on the retreat from that spherical on. No matter battle that Bivol had in him was taken out after he was hit with a storm of photographs within the seventh. You would see it. Turning the pontificate from the DAZN commentary crew helped.
Beterbiev unloading bombs on Bivol, and after that seventh spherical, it was one-sided in Artur’s favor. Bivol is a type of fighters who loses his braveness after getting hit arduous and doesn’t wish to take any extra dangers. We noticed that in his fights towards Canelo Alvarez, Joe Smith, and Lyndon Arthur. When Bivol will get buzzed, he alters his type and goes into safety-first mode.
“Bivol managed the battle. Hear, he received buzzed within the battle. He buzzed Artur Beterbiev,” mentioned Eddie Hearn to BoxNation, grumbling about his fighter, Dmitry Bivol’s loss to Artur Beterbiev final Saturday night time.
“That was a lifetime’s of labor the place he ought to have been strolling out of the ring because the undisputed world champion. His Excellency [Turki Alalshikh] mentioned, ‘Flawed choice, I’ll do a rematch.’ We should always have had an undisputed champion in there.”
Hearn might dwell to remorse steering Bivol right into a rematch with Beterbiev as a result of he’s prone to get knocked out within the second battle. As soon as Bivol loses the rematch, his worth to Hearn and his Matchroom firm will likely be nugatory. Hearn could be higher off campaigning for the Bivol and Canelo Alvarez rematch. That’s the one which he must be specializing in. If Hearn can persuade Turki to assist him persuade Canelo to battle Bivol once more, there’s some huge cash to make within the second battle. That’s what I wouldn’t do.
A blind man may see that Beterbiev had discovered Bivol and would destroy him within the rematch. Beterbiev has discovered Bivol’s sport and can break him with stress the second time round.
